Norman Finkelstein Confronts Fatah Spokesman

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00:00You have a paycheck to earn, so I understand what you're saying.

00:05However, all the public opinion polls...

00:07I don't think it's useful to insult people you're talking to.

00:10I could do the same to you, but I really wouldn't.

00:12Okay, allow me to finish.

00:15I'm capable of, trust me.

00:16Allow me to finish.

00:19According to all the public opinion polls in the West Bank,

00:23about 25% of the Palestinian people support Abbas.

00:28Which are financed by the United States.

00:3225%.

00:33Now, if you look at the number of people employed by the Palestinian Authority,

00:41it comes to about 25%.

00:45So the only people in what you call, you said,

00:50Abbas represents the Palestinian people.

00:55No, he doesn't.

00:57When was the last election in the West Bank?

01:00Can you tell the audience?

01:02This is the same words that were uttered by Danny Danone at the United Nations.

01:06When was the last election?

01:08The representative of the state of Israel said exactly these words at the Assembly of the United Nations.

01:14You said...

01:14Inciting against the Palestinian Authority.

01:16So he's happy to hear you discrediting and denegitizing the Palestinian Authority.

01:21You said he represents the Palestinian people.

01:22This is what Danny Danone has said.

01:24You said he represents...

01:25You said he represents the Palestinian people.

01:29When was the last election?

01:32When was the last election?

01:34Well, we tried to hold elections in 2021.

01:37When was the last election?

01:39Please answer the question.

01:41When was the last election?

01:42Either we hold elections without Jerusalem...

01:44I didn't ask you that.

01:45Or we hold elections...

01:46I'm just asking you a simple factual question.

01:50We're not in the classroom, Mr. Finkelstein.

01:52All right.