Noam Chomsky Quotes
Israel is a pretty crazy state.
Chomsky, Noam. Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky. Edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel, The New Press, 2002.
To make matters worse for the Muslims, the tiny foreign entity in their midst—populated by "heathens who do not follow the command of God"—have created a much higher standard of living for their people, improved the land and its productivity in ways that have been far superior to traditional Islamic methods, reclaimed much of the desert that the Muslims could not, and produced a military that has staved off the hostilities of all of Islam, and has done all this without any oil or other natural resources to sell. Israel is a living counter-example to the superiority of Islam and its traditions which is so important to Muslims.
This clause has been the cause of immense problems in the Mid-East. Hamas castigates any Palestinian who even suggests that there should be negotiations with Israel that are sincere as nothing less than the end of Israel is consistent with their charter. Anyone who uses the peace process for anything else but tactical advantage and buying time to strike again is a traitor. Meanwhile, the clause is taken be Israel to demonstrate that there is no point to any negotiations so long as the Palestinian Authority allows such an organization with this charter clause to be legal and operate in the open. The Palestinian Authority leadership are not willing to risk a civil war, and thus little or no progress is made.
Clinton had been spending the greater part of his time trying to mediate the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Israel is the only state in the overwhelming Muslim Middle East that is modern, democratic, Jewish, Western, and technologically based. It’s presence has been an embarrassment for all the Arab States in the region as Israel, founded in 1948 on some of the worst land of the Middle East with no oil or other natural resources developed from a desert in a short term, while the other states have remained backward, poor, and dictatorial. The Arabs have opposed Israel ever since its creation by the United Nations and have attacked it in numerous wars since then which the Arabs have all lost along with control of the traditional Palestinian lands which the Israelis occupy and control as a security measure. Only Egypt has accepted the existence of Israel as a Jewish State and entered into a peach treaty. The others still threaten Israel constantly and provide arms and ammunition to terrorists who frequently attack Israeli civilians while Israeli religious extremists, who believe that God gave much of the region to the Jewish People and have created settlements on Palestinian land, giving many Palestinians a just grievance to go along with the hostility that had already existed.
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.
