News and Politics | January 24, 2009 | 32 comments

"Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009 by Noam Chomsky

source: http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20090119.htm

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Anyone interested in the situation in Gaza should read this! Noam Chomsky's work brings to light much that gets filtered through biased media sources. The essay was taken directly from his website http://www.chomsky.info/. Get informed, spread the word.

Here is a small part of a brilliant piece.

"...Hence the invasion of Gaza.

The timing of the invasion was presumably influenced by the coming Israeli election. Ehud Barak, who was lagging badly in the polls, gained one parliamentary seat for every 40 Arabs killed in the early days of the slaughter, Israeli commentator Ran HaCohen calculated.

That may change, however. As the crimes passed beyond what the carefully honed Israeli propaganda campaign was able to suppress, even confirmed Israeli hawks became concerned that the carnage is "Destroying [Israel's] soul and its image. Destroying it on world television screens, in the living rooms of the international community and most importantly, in Obama's America" (Ari Shavit). Shavit was particularly concerned about Israel's "shelling a United Nations facility ... on the day when the UN secretary general is visiting Jerusalem," an act that is "beyond lunacy," he felt."
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32 comments // "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009 by Noam Chomsky

  • Highr0ller
  • Highr0ller
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    • This Congressional doormat policy toward Israel began on September 21, 1922 whereupon the U.S. Congress endorsed the British Balfour Declaration.

      U.S. CONGRESS ENDORSES BALFOUR DECLARATION: SEPTEMBER 21, 1922

      Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled.

      That the United States of America favors the establishment in Palestine of "A" national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which will prejudice the civil and religious rights of Christian and all other non-Jewish communities in Palestine, and that the holy places and religious buildings and sites in Palestine shall be adequately protected.

      (Public Resolution No. 73, 67th Congress, Second Session).

      Letter to President Ford by 71 Senators Concerning “Reassessment”
      (December 9, 1974)
      Dear Mr. President:............................

      CLICK ON LINK

    • 3 years ago
  • zeropiate
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    • If there are such things as heaven or hell, B.F. Skinner is chuckling deeply at his academic arch-nemesis now.
      At least he did not become involved in politics.

    • 3 years ago
  • Isaac_M
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    • Chomsky is a psycho-linguist, like in psycho-pathic. Wow can he play with words, and twist and pervert any reality into a totally one-sided point of view. He makes a lot of money with this, I suppose.

    • 3 years ago
  • flyingkick
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    • Isaac_M:

      Don't confuse linguistics with rhetoric.

      linguistics- study of HOW we speak
      rhetoric- study of manipulating words

      Chomsky's specialty is syntax- very cut and dry mathematical linguistics.

      If you've ever heard him speak, you'd know he's actually a very boring and bland speaker, with almost no persuasive skill whatsoever. He just lets the facts speak for themselves.

    • 3 years ago
  • carligula
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    • Isaac_M:

      kudos flyingkick. Regardless of where you stand on the issue you cant ignore the fact that the man is incredibly intelligent. The truth always stings those who are trying to ignore it.

    • 3 years ago
  • FallenMorgan
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    • Chomsky is as relevant in this century as he was in the last. New perspectives are always needed, but why would you disregard someone who's been following this issue and writing about it since the beginning?

    • 3 years ago
  • unimatrix0
  • Svend
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    • Noam Chosky=libertarian socialist=anarchist=Hamas. Makes sense to me. Noam if you were in charge we'd all be dead in quick order with the hate speech that you put into the heads of your disciples who I am sure given the opportunity to control the rest of us would make 1984 look like a picnic. Hamas 'soldiers' surround themselves with babies and women as shields, what bunch a of cowards. If their rockets are of no value why have they fired 6,000 of them since they took over. Israel hasn't started this mess Hamas and Hezbollah and their mentors can shoulder that responsibility.

    • 3 years ago
  • Sexirobot
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    • Svend:

      excuse me but your logic is breathtakingly idiotic, although
      i agree that Hamas combatants hide behind civilians i can't see what that fact has to do with Chomsky. Chomsky is a commenter like the rest of us. he doesn't want to watch the world burn like you suggest.

    • 3 years ago
  • flyingkick
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    • mutedmajority:

      It would be creepy if anything you just posted was true. How many peace activists use automatic weapons (sometimes against their own countrymen), suicide bombers, and fire rockets during a "truce". If you excuse the behaviors of Hamas, you are excusing the behaviors of Israel. Don't be so one-sided in your arguements. Look at the big picture.

    • 3 years ago
  • mtnpatriot
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    • mutedmajority:

      Leftist anti-semetic peaceniks refuse to see a clear link between rocket attacks on Israel and their desire to protect themselves. Let's imagine for a moment hundred of rockets exploding in the city in which "mutedmajority" lives. What would the expected response from the US government be?

    • 3 years ago
  • unimatrix0
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    • mutedmajority:

      Sometimes both sides are wrong. You're the one with the radical, biased opinions. Hamas=peace activists? Honestly...

      There have been reports from Maan, a Palestinian News Agency, that Hamas loots fuel and food stores bound for hospitals, sells necessities to the highest bidders, and forces bakeries to remain closed to bolster international sympathy for their starving citizens.

      Move to Palestine and join their forces if you are so proud of them, or are you already on the payroll?

    • 3 years ago
  • WakeUpPeople
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    • mutedmajority:

      Why don't you enlighten us with your sources of information? Propaganda comes from both sides. Maybe you're just in a different bubble. My bubble at least sees the flaws of both, so let's call my bubble the balanced view bubble, and your's the Hamas sympathizing bubble.

    • 3 years ago
  • Liberal_Extinction
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    • GAZA is so tiny ....................25 miles long and at most 6 miles wide. It borders Egypt to it south-west and Israel to its north and east.

      Chomksy says in the article:

      Gerges believes that US-Israeli state terror will fail: Hamas, he writes, "cannot be wiped out without massacring half a million Palestinians. If Israel succeeds in killing Hamas's senior leaders, a new generation, more radical than the present, will swiftly replace them. Hamas is a fact of life. It is not going away, and it will not raise the white flag regardless of how many casualties it suffers."

      Perhaps, but there is often a tendency to underestimate the efficacy of violence. It is particularly odd that such a belief should be held in the United States. Why are we here?

    • 3 years ago
  • CarolynGillis
  • ampersand
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    • CarolynGillis:

      Israel and its settlers weren't "forced" to take Palestinian land and water and force them into a barbed wire ghetto. Fighting from the last place you have means you are fighting from your home with your children nearby. I was astonished to hear yesterday from a television documentary on plots to kill Hitler that the founders of Israel received assistance from Himmler up to 1939 in settling in Palestine and in return, provided information to Himmler about Jewish plots to kill Hitler.
      The brutal greed (not confined to Zionist Jews, to be fair) shown by a massive armed military state is part and parcel of Israel's history. It's also part of ours. It doesn't excuse either.

    • 3 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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    • Chomsky's view has been ignored by one & all in power since the beginning...

      Let's see some CHANGE indeed...

      "The real mass media are basically trying to divert people." ... "Let everybody be crazed about professional sports or sex scandals"– Noam Chomsky

      "As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege" – Noam Chomsky

      “The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.” - Noam Chomsky

      "Free enterprise, is a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy to maintain a welfare state for the rich." - Noam Chomsky

      "If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged." - Noam Chomsky

      Noam Chomsky: Obama’s Stance on Gaza Crisis “Approximately the Bush Position”
      http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/23/noam_chomsky_obamas_stance_on_gaza

      MAKE FOOD NOT WAR !
      http://antiwar.com/

    • 3 years ago
  • Highr0ller
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    • Ask President Obama to deliver urgent humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The United States has the capacity to send immediate help to the region with the U.S. Naval ships USNS Mercy and USNS Comfort.

    • 3 years ago
  • Highr0ller
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    • Thank you for posting Chomsky, He's a hero of mine and my bookshelf has many of his books, I have a dvd also. I wish more Americans would read Chomsky.

      Bravo Prof. Chomsky.

      Thank you Prof. Chomsky.

      "For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and in which all too often we serve as unwilling instruments." Noam Chomsky

    • 3 years ago
  • numinant
  • carligula
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    • numinant:

      nice to see that something worthwhile come out of t-shirt culture. although i still struggle with the notion of ideas being reduced to consumable fashion statements. but don't mind me, i'm a pessimist.

    • 3 years ago
  • covelogibbs
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