Reply #21: 'Benjamin"'s comment is a most interesting one!

[LeftishBrit]

I think that he gets to the heart of the issue:

'However he essentially has the same problem as those he ideologically disagrees with. He sees in things in terms of moral black and white where one side is completely justified and the other is pure evil. If history shows us anything in most cases conflicts are shades of grey.'

I strongly oppose the blinkered views of the blindly 'patriotic' or pro-establishment, who consider that their group and its leaders are Good, and their enemies are Bad (e.g. Bush's phrase 'Axis of Evil'). However, some very anti-establishment people are what I call 'mirror-image-ists' who take this view, turn it on its head, and assume that all that opposes their own leadership must be Good, and its supporters and allies Evil. I think that Finkelstein falls into this trap.