| Salam
and greetings.
The Palestinian-Israeli struggle is not a one-sided
story, but most people would like to see or reduce
it that way. Israeli people ARE suffering. No question
about that. However, there is also suffering of the
Palestinian side that somehow is not getting the kind
of coverage in the mainstream western media as it
should.
At least that's what Prof. Norman G. Finkelstein believes,
which motivated him to put together a compelling photo
essay "Searching Jenin."
The Opening Passage states: “What's missing
in all this news 'coverage' is what exactly did happen
in Jenin. None are better equipped to tell us than
the survivors themselves. Without their testimonies,
Jenin would have become just one more unmarked grave
in the sorrowful history of Palestine's conquest."
The author Finkelstein has an intimate family connection
with suffering in the context of the German holocaust.
As his online biographical note mentions: He "received
his doctorate from the Department of Politics, Princeton
University, for a thesis on the theory of Zionism.
He is the author of four books: Image and Reality
of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Verso, 1995), The
Rise and Fall of Palestine (University of Minnesota,
1996), with Ruth Bettina Birn, A Nation on Trial:
The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth (Henry Holt,1998)
and The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation
of Jewish Suffering (Verso, 2000). ... Currently he
teaches political science at DePaul University in
Chicago.
Norman Finkelstein was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in
1953. He is the son of Maryla Husyt Finkelstein, survivor
of the Warsaw Ghetto, Maidanek concentration camp,
and Zacharias Finkelstein, survivor of the Warsaw
Ghetto, Auschwitz concentration camp. He dedicated
his first book to his parents in which he wrote: 'May
I never forgive or forget what was done to them.'
His brothers Richard and Henry Finkelstein would like
all visitors to this web site to know that the surviving
family fully supports Norman's efforts to maintain
the integrity of the history of the Nazi holocaust.
May we never forgive or forget what was done."
[http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/id17.htm]
You are invited to read his photoessay Searching Jenin
at http://www.searchingjenin.com/gallery_page_01.shtml.
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Dr. Mohammad Omar Farooq
http://www.globalwebpost.com/farooqm
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