Noam Chomsky, a fascinating man….I met him a lifetime ago at a scholars conference that I was attending and got to chat with him for awhile……a quick mind and a brilliant conversationalist….
His most recent speech to the UN…..please read…..
Noam Chomsky, a fascinating man….I met him a lifetime ago at a scholars conference that I was attending and got to chat with him for awhile……a quick mind and a brilliant conversationalist….
His most recent speech to the UN…..please read…..
Noam Chomsky and Democracy Now always expose a side of reality that most Americans simply don’t get in the MSM. But apathy is perhaps the worst thing that affects most Americans who are to0 involved with a shallow life of consumption and a very flawed account of the recent history between Israel and the Palestinian people.
I agree completely….back in my lecturing I used the Native Americans as an example of why Pals resist……the two situations are very close….
noam chomski really doesn’t like the single-state solution and he obfuscates, hides information, and uses scare tactics to intimidate those who do and who cannot accept the legitimacy of exclusivist ethno-theocratic states reserved for genetically and otherwisely defined “chosen people” and founded in land usurped from “lesser people” after expelling them before foundation (search “ilan pappe” on youtube).
is it a coincidence that chomski never demands — which would solve immediately the palestinian conflict– that the privileges in israeli legislation “only for jews (in situ and arriving)” be extended to anybody, in situ and arriving, with a connection to the land?
he must have good reasons for liking such states and for showing retrain in demanding an end to the above discrimination, but first the facts:
he said at the UN us that nobody supports the single-state solution anymore (but he gave special attention to arguing against it and dismiss it!).
he did not tell us why “nobody supports anymore…” etc, etc, albeit as media expert he knows the reasons very well: it’s the washington consensus that is force-fed to the world by the western media with help of western enforced-persuasion tools (e.g., no state with significant trade with the EU/USA would ever dare to challenge it).
chomski hints darkly that only the two-state solution can impede that israel finishes off the palestinians (in his pious euphemistic new-speak “that the palestinians end out being even more harmed! Would you like that, you monster!?”).
he reveals to us that a south-africa-like solution conform with international law and human rights (including non-discrimination on the basis of biology or creed) is not possible for palestine *because* israel does no need the palestinians as workers, unlike white south-africa that needed the black workforce.
the blackmailing hint is clear: those who support the single-state solution are de facto choosing the full ethnic cleansing –if not worse– of the palestinians from their land, so people should better stop questioning the legitimacy of exclusivist ethno-theocratic states reserved for genetically and otherwisely defined “chosen people”.
but we are *not* really told why his conclusion that “south africa cannot be repeated!” is inescapable. We are not given, e.g., any details about what allowed international law and human rights to have a chance in south africa but cannot be mobilized for palestine. He lets it appear as a “fact of nature” revealed to us by a saintly man.
in this context, is it by chance that this “most important of living intellectuals” avoids always so carefully –including here at the UN– to mention the specific mechanisms by which israel dominates USA and EU foreign policy, e.g., the USA pro-israel lobby and its phalanx of fifth-columnists among foggy bottom’s career staff (see hillary mann-leverett about how pro-israel girls like her “naturally gravitated” towards a foggy-bottom career:
minute 11.oo” on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKZl71h1_4c )
bottom line: this ivory-tower specialist of surfing the ocean of gullible know-nothing upper-middle-class bleeding hearts might have a weak spot for the continuation of the triumph of his favorite ethnocratic state.
why otherwise denounce israel’s crimes so vociferously –if not to create a smoke screen– while always forgetting to stress the crucial elements that would best derail the colonization process of “the land without (real) people for (chosen) people without land”, facts that he mentions as side curiosities but only when challenged?
Thanx for your comment…….he may not be one of your gave people but at least he is an American that will speak up……too many Americans will support Israel blindly and without question……way too many.