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Youtube. Noam Chomsky (Oct, 2014) "The Future of the Israel-Palestine Conflict" Noam Chomsky (2014) "WHY Does The US Support Israel?" Noam Chomsky (2014) AWESOME Reply To "What Can The US Do?" Noam Chomsky: Growing Number of Nations Distancing Themselves From Israel's 'Explicitly Criminal Actions' Noam Chomsky said Tuesday that recent votes in Europe to recognize Palestinian statehood show growing actions by populations to distance themselves from Israel's "criminal actions. " The noted noted linguist, author, and critic of U.S. empire added that continued fossil fuel extraction is destroying a future that would allow decent human existence. Chomsky made the comments to press at the United Nations headquarters ahead of a lecture he was giving on the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

For Palestinians, the only "moral choice is to resist occupation," he said, and for Palestinian leadership, "a primary focus" should be "to address the American population. " That direction is needed, he said, for the American public to hope to bring about change to the U.S. policy on Israel and Palestine. "I think there will be no significant progress in this conflict until pressure from the American population induces the government to take a different stance.

Noam Chomsky speaking Tuesday. Noam Chomsky | Nightmare in Gaza. Palestinian children gather books from the rubble of the Imam Shafi’i Mosque in Gaza City, Aug. 2, 2014. (Photo: Sergey Ponomarev / The New York Times) Amid all the horrors unfolding in the latest Israeli offensive in Gaza, Israel's goal is simple: quiet-for-quiet, a return to the norm. For the West Bank, the norm is that Israel continues its illegal construction of settlements and infrastructure so that it can integrate into Israel whatever might be of value, meanwhile consigning Palestinians to unviable cantons and subjecting them to repression and violence.

For Gaza, the norm is a miserable existence under a cruel and destructive siege that Israel administers to permit bare survival but nothing more. The latest Israeli rampage was set off by the brutal murder of three Israeli boys from a settler community in the occupied West Bank. The media constantly intone that Hamas is dedicated to the destruction of Israel. The crime of the Palestinians in January 2006 was punished at once. Sen. DN! "A hideous atrocity" : Chomsky on Gaza. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: To talk more about the crisis in Gaza, we go now to Boston, where we are joined by Noam Chomsky, world-renowned political dissident, linguist, author, Institute Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he’s taught for more than 50 years. He has written extensively about the Israel-Palestine conflict for decades. AMY GOODMAN: Forty years ago this month, Noam Chomsky published Peace in the Middle East?

: Reflections on Justice and Nationhood. His 1983 book, The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians, is known as one of the definitive works on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Professor Chomsky joins us from Boston. Welcome back to Democracy Now! NOAM CHOMSKY: It’s a hideous atrocity, sadistic, vicious, murderous, totally without any credible pretext. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And what of the pretext that Israel used to launch these attacks? What was used as a pretext was the brutal murder of three settler teenagers.

[break] DN! "Much worse than Apartheid" Part 2 of our conversation with famed linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky on the crisis in Gaza, U.S. support for Israel, apartheid and the BDS movement. "In the Occupied Territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid," Chomsky says. "To call it apartheid is a gift to Israel, at least if by 'apartheid' you mean South African-style apartheid. What’s happening in the Occupied Territories is much worse. There’s a crucial difference. The South African Nationalists needed the black population. That was their workforce. … The Israeli relationship to the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories is totally different. They just don’t want them. Click here to watch Part 1 of the interview. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!

AMY GOODMAN: That was CBS journalist Bob Schieffer. NOAM CHOMSKY: Well, we don’t really have to listen to CBS, because we can listen directly to the Israeli propaganda agencies, which he’s quoting. NOAM CHOMSKY: Very definitely. We’ve seen it before. Noam Chomsky "Israeli Justification For Gaza Invasion" Norman Finkelstein on Israel and Noam Chomsky.

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