Norman Finkelstein: Musk won’t affect Israel-Palestine conflict

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Elon Musk won’t impact the Israel-Palestine conflict and couldn’t even “find Israel on the map,” political scientist Professor Norman Finkelstein says.  #ElonMusk #Israel

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00:00So you don't think a figure like Elon Musk, who is shaping up to be a really important

00:04figure – he's already demonstrated he's a very important figure in the Trump administration,

00:08he wields enormous power on social media, he's also extremely close to President Trump

00:13– do you think he might bring something, perhaps a new approach, a new way of looking

00:17at this historic problem?

00:19No, I think there's too much of a fixation on flamboyant personalities and not sufficient

00:28recognition of the institutional investments in U.S. foreign policy, as well as the normal

00:38modus operandi of U.S. foreign policy, which is the exertion of maximal force.

00:49Elon Musk probably can't find Israel on a map, and probably couldn't care less that

00:56he can't.

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