Noam Chomsky: U.S. Directly Responsible For ‘Unremitting Brutality’ Of Ariel Sharon

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

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Chomsky agreed with Rashid Khalidi, who was also on the program and described the response to Sharon’s death as one in which “a war criminal and mass murderer” is being “turned into a god in the American media.”

“What Rashid has said is exactly accurate,” Chomsky said. Sharon “was a brutal killer” committed to the idea that the Palestinians “should somehow disappear” and that Israel should “be powerful enough to dominate the region.”

He went on to discuss Sharon’s separation of the West Bank from the Gaza Strip: “Israel will keep the people in Gaza on a diet. We won’t let them starve to death; that won’t look good in the international world,” he said. “We’ll just give them just enough to stay barely alive in this open-air prison, as Rashid Khalidi correctly described it, and they’ll be separated from the West Bank.”

I wonder if this tidbit from Chompsky will get a lot of play in I/P. or will it be misquoted endlessly?

Once all of the "war criminals and mass murderers" are laid to rest who will the Israeli right look up to as their next great leaders? Bibi doesn't seem to have it in him. Perhaps Naftali Bennet will pick up the scythe and blaze a path for nostalgia's sake.