They let Norman Finkelstein speak at the UN? For shame. - '...The question of whether Finkelstein actually believes what he's saying--that a terrorist organization that fired over 3,200 rockets and mortar shells (which he refers to as "firecrackers and Roman candles" in the above-linked chapter) on a civilian population over the course of a single year is not a military force--is less interesting than the question of how such a pathological mindset got a speaking invitation at the UN to begin with. The invite was apparently the idea of Nizar Abboud, a reporter for Al-Alam, an Arabic-language subsidiary of state-owned Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting. "I suggested to invite him, and all the UNCA people agreed," Abboud said. Which means that the organization representing the UN press corps apparently thought that borderline paranoia and outright slander of the Jewish state was something from which their colleagues could benefit...'