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Norman Finklestein in the following article.
If you are not familiar with Finklestein he is a Rrinceton professor who wrote the highly controversial but IMHO brilliant book called The Holocost Industry. He is loathed by Zionist's but his creditials for slamming what he refers to as the Holacost Industry are impeccable given that both his parents are concentration camp survivors and supported his work.
Anyway he had been friends with Hitchens since college so his trashing of Hitchens has teeth.
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"Below is an excerpt from the memoir on the subject of political apostasy. The title refers to how ex-leftist Christopher Hitchens used to sign off his correspondence. "Fraternally yours, Chris"
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For many years Hitchens awed readers with his formidable control over the English language. Now his ego delights in testing whether, through sheer manipulation of words, he can pass off flatulent emissions as bouquets. It perhaps would be funny watching fatuous readers fawn over gibberish - were not human life at stake.
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for Hitchens it's also lucrative nonsense that he's peddling. It's not exactly a martyr's fate defecting from The Nation, a frills-free liberal magazine, to Atlantic Monthly, the well-heeled house organ of Zionist crazies. Although Kissinger affected to be a "solitary, gaunt hero," Hitchens says, in reality he was just a "corpulent opportunist." It sounds familiar.
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