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Everone with morality should listen to the wisdom of a great sage and polymath...there are few people on earth like him or Hawkins who can project this kind of analysis and foreseeing the future of events. Make peace, be Just...

Chomsky says Europe could help Mideast talks

GENEVA (AP) -- Europe could provide the key to success for a U.S.-brokered resumption of talks between Israel and the Palestinians, prominent American academic Noam Chomsky said Friday.

Without intervention by Europe, which could use its political and economic weight, the talks likely won't amount to much, said Chomsky during a talk with international reporters at the Geneva Press Club. But if Europe were willing to break from American policies supporting Israel, he said, that could swing momentum toward a breakthrough.

Preliminary peace talks agreed to after a shuttle mission by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry are to begin in Washington next Tuesday.

Both sides have low expectations for the new U.S. peace initiative since Israeli-Palestinian talks over the terms of a Palestinian state have been frozen for five years amid disagreement even on the rules for negotiations, including the principles for drawing a border between them.

"It's hard to be optimistic but Europe could play a role," said Chomsky. "By and large, Europe has not developed an independent Middle East policy."

 

[georgephillip]

Chomsky applies the same moral standards to Israel and the US he applies to all other nation states, which is why he is almost entirely reviled by today's corporate media.

"The European Union's biggest trading partner is the United States, but Israel also is an important trading partner for the 28-nation EU in the Mediterranean region. About a third of Israel's exports go to the EU, and an even higher proportion of Israel's imports come from the EU.

"Chomsky told reporters that Europe 'consistently follows the U.S. stand,' which he said punishes Palestinians whose land is settled by Israelis, and 'there's no reason why Europe should support illegal settlements.'

"Chomsky is a fierce critic of the U.S. government and Israel, which banned him in 2010. Last year, during his first visit to the Gaza Strip, he called on Israel to end its blockade of the territory run by the Islamic militant group Hamas."

Chomsky says Europe could help Mideast talks

 

[Bloodrock44]

Chomsky applies the same moral standards to Israel and the US he applies to all other nation states, which is why he is almost entirely reviled by today's corporate media.

"The European Union's biggest trading partner is the United States, but Israel also is an important trading partner for the 28-nation EU in the Mediterranean region. About a third of Israel's exports go to the EU, and an even higher proportion of Israel's imports come from the EU.

"Chomsky told reporters that Europe 'consistently follows the U.S. stand,' which he said punishes Palestinians whose land is settled by Israelis, and 'there's no reason why Europe should support illegal settlements.'

"Chomsky is a fierce critic of the U.S. government and Israel, which banned him in 2010. Last year, during his first visit to the Gaza Strip, he called on Israel to end its blockade of the territory run by the Islamic militant group Hamas."

Chomsky says Europe could help Mideast talks

Chomsky is reviled because he is an anarchist and a card carrying commie.

 

[georgephillip]

Chomsky applies the same moral standards to Israel and the US he applies to all other nation states, which is why he is almost entirely reviled by today's corporate media.

"The European Union's biggest trading partner is the United States, but Israel also is an important trading partner for the 28-nation EU in the Mediterranean region. About a third of Israel's exports go to the EU, and an even higher proportion of Israel's imports come from the EU.

"Chomsky told reporters that Europe 'consistently follows the U.S. stand,' which he said punishes Palestinians whose land is settled by Israelis, and 'there's no reason why Europe should support illegal settlements.'

"Chomsky is a fierce critic of the U.S. government and Israel, which banned him in 2010. Last year, during his first visit to the Gaza Strip, he called on Israel to end its blockade of the territory run by the Islamic militant group Hamas."

Chomsky says Europe could help Mideast talks

Chomsky is reviled because he is an anarchist and a card carrying commie.

You're half-right this time...keep up the good work!

"In practice Chomsky has tended to emphasize the philosophical tendency of anarchism to criticize all forms of illegitimate authority..."

"According to Chomsky, the variety of anarchism which he favors is

... a kind of voluntary socialism, that is, as libertarian socialist or anarcho-syndicalist or communist anarchist, in the tradition of, say, Bakunin and Kropotkin and others.

"They had in mind a highly organized form of society, but a society that was organized on the basis of organic units, organic communities.

"And generally, they meant by that the workplace and the neighborhood, and from those two basic units there could derive through federal arrangements a highly integrated kind of social organization which might be national or even international in scope.

"And these decisions could be made over a substantial range, but by delegates who are always part of the organic community from which they come, to which they return, and in which, in fact, they live."

Noam Chomsky's political views - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia