Noam Chomsky Quotes
Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.
Chomsky, Noam. Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians. South End Press, 1999.
The Ottoman Turks had captured Byzantium (Constantinople) in 1453. The Byzantines had received no help from their fellow Christians. The Christian Roman Empire was split in two—a Western (Latin) Empire led by the Roman Catholic Church in Rome, and the Eastern (Greek) Roman Empire led by the Orthodox Church headquartered in Constantinople (Byzantium). The two churches were not only in a theological conflict but violence broke out and the armies of the two religious empires attacked each other now and then. It was assumed that there would be mutual interest in protecting Europe from the Muslim armies. The comparison to the Sultan of Cairo was facetious of course. As a leading Muslim he would never provide any help to the Christians against other Muslims.
Mohamed Anwar El-Sedat. Sedat had negotiated the peace treaty with Israel but it still had to be formally signed. After that he received massive financial aid from the United States including financial military aid. His influence was lost when he was assassinated thereafter by Islamic extremists. The military aid continued for many years thereafter.
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.
