Apartheid Paradigm Palestine-Israel Noam Chomsky Annapolis

Air date 27 nov 2007. Part 1/3

Not Through Annapolis: Noam Chomsky Says Path to Mideast Peace Lies in Popular Organizing Against U.S.-Israeli "Rejectionism"

Chomsky says U.S. backing of continued Israeli occupation and annexation of Palestinian land is the biggest obstacle to peace. He says: "The crimes against Palestinians... are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it's likely to harm them. We have to face the reality that our actions have consequences, and they have to be adapted to real-world circumstances, difficult as it may be to stay calm in the face of shameful crimes in which we are directly and crucially implicated.

Leaders from around the world are gathering in Annapolis, Maryland today to take part in a U.S.-sponsored summit on the Middle East. President Bush met separately with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House on Monday. More than 40 organisations and countries, including Saudi Arabia and Syria, are attending the conference today. Hamas was not invited.

A final agenda has not yet been drawn up, but a draft of a joint document was leaked to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. It makes no mention of the situation in Gaza or of core issues like the status of Jerusalem, settlements, borders, the separation wall and Palestinian refugees.

Chomsky recently spoke at a conference in Boston, sponsored by Sabeel, a Palestinian Christian organization. The conference was titled "The Apartheid Paradigm in Palestine-Israel: Highlighting Issues of Justice and Equality."

We begin with Noam Chomsky. A professor of linguistics at MIT for over half a century, Chomsky is the author of dozens of books on US foreign policy. His most recent is called "Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy." Chomsky spoke before a packed audience at Boston's historic Old South Church.

Transcript: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/27/1547221

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• imperialism
• israeli
• usa
• occupation
• west
• bank
• gaza

[mistermoen]

Wow. A video of the most brilliant political scholar, coupled with the dumbest, least founded youtube comments I have ever read. Why am I surprised?

[aewester]

The people who get power in the knesset are NOT pro-two-state solution. Again with your ridiculous lies!!

Israel and the U.S. have been consistently BLOCKING a two-state solution for over thirty years.

That's like trying to say that the people who get elected to congress in the U.S. are pro-peace.

[solpapisolmook]

@aewester He offered all of Gaza, 97pc of West Bank (with 3pc of land swaps in Israel to make up for it), refugee compensation and repatriation for a number of them, and splitting Jerusalem down the middle.

Take your Palestinian propaganda and fuck right off with it. Goddamned leftist.

[valeagathon]

@aewester not just you,all of you americans can only complain about anyfuckingthing and do nothing,in the end.your arses are sticked with glue to your chairs and your sofas,watching crappy tv shows and commenting on yt and 4chan and watching porn.that's all you ever do.not people,plebs,that's what you are.

[valeagathon]

@aewester "Are you a govt. propagandist, or do you just genuinely not know anything?"

and that one shows tons of arrogance.i'm a private citizen,18 year old,living in italy.i wouldn't give a cent neither about my ECB-owned government(wich,anyway,got other problems,like limiting the crisis' damages,surely not israel)nor about your jew-owned one.ya,they own your filthy ass,and you aren't doing anything.i think you like taking jewish dicks in your back,do you?you're all words and no facts

[valeagathon]

@aewester gaza strip is,politically speaking,independant.there isn't occupation,there aren't jews anymore(not even gilad shalit),settlements were destroyed 6 years ago...it's independant to me.bombing infrastructures you say?ask yourself why.tell me,do you think that israel kills palestinians and destroys infrastructures just because "hahahahaha me bez j00ish,and me bez ivil und greedy mWAHAHAHAHHAHAHA".do you think they do it for no reason?just to harm?are you really that illuded?

[valeagathon]

@aewester neither me do like settlers and,in all honesty,i think they're a big problem.still,to think of removing 300.000 people from an area smells like ethnic cleansing.what to do?get settlers out of israel's responsibility zone(removing them citizenship) and,if possible,put palestinians too in jewish settlements(i know they have pretty overcrowded cities).basically,make the settlers palestinians.that's what i'm saying.i think the palestinians can only earn from this.(continue)

[aewester]

@valeagathon Settlers are stealing all the land and water. They should gtfo. Would you accept Palestinian settlers protected by a powerful military inside Israel? No. Fuck that, obviously.

Also, you lost all credibility when you said the Gaza strip is fully independent. It is completely DEPENDENT on Israel to manage (severely limit) all of the imports and exports, and to not bomb the people and infrastructure at any time. Are you a govt. propagandist, or do you just genuinely not know anything?

[aewester]

@solpapisolmook

he didn't offer everything they wanted. he offered far less than 100% of palestinian land, no sovereignty, restrictions on land use, etc. Look it up-- do your research first, don't just listen to the Israeli and U.S. governments.

[solpapisolmook]

@aewester Was Ehud Barak "blocking" the solution when he offered everything the Palestinians were asking for, in 2000? Idiot.

[solpapisolmook]

Why does Amy Goodman, that dumb cunt, say "aparthade," instead of "apartheid"? It's so annoying.