During the July War (2006, Lebanon, remember?) there was this report that Israel had carried out an attack on an aid ship which was on its way to Lebanese civilians. A day after, I was watching CNN where Middle East correspondent Wolf Blitzer was explaining the viewer why Israel had good reasons to be beware of the coasts, for Hezbollah militants had the means to carry out terrorist attacks on Israel from the sea. Yes, the 'impartial' news channel CNN seemed very keen to play official Israeli press agent service once again.
Immediately after Blitzer's report, I turned to Youtube to find out whether someone had put it on-line so I could watch it again. Alas, that wasn't the case but instead, I stumbled upon another very interesting video where Blitzer was also stealing the show... NOT:
20 years ago, on a conference at the University of Pennsylvania, Wolf Blitzer tried really hard to be a match for Norman 'American Radical' Finkelstein in a discussion about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but failed miserably. Below you can find the 55-minute-version of this 'clash'; needless to say that the topics and the arguments delivered can still be considered relevant today. In fact, it proves once again that Hegel was right when he said: "Was die Erfahrung aber und die Geschichte lehren, ist dieses, daß Völker und Regierungen niemals etwas aus der Geschichte gelernt und nach Lehren, die aus derselben zu ziehen gewesen wären, gehandelt haben." (well, he was German wasn't he? - alright, here is the English translation: "What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles.")
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