More Q and A with the world's smartest Jew:
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Question in Italics
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Do you ever doubt your own ideas?
"All the time. You should read what happens in linguistics. I keep changing what I said. Any person who is intellectually alive changes his ideas. If anyone at a university is teaching the same thing they were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead, or they haven't been thinking.
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But, unlike many reconstructed leftists, you have not changed your political views one iota since the 60's. For instance, you have remained a vocal critic of Israel.
"I objected to the founding of Israel as a Jewish state. I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept.
I would object to the United States as a Christian state.
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Your father was a respected Hebraic scholar, and sometimes you sound like a self-hating Jew.
"It is a shame that critics of Israeli policies are seen as either anti-Semites or self-hating Jews. It's grotesque.
If an Italian criticized Italian policies, would he be seen as a self-hating Italian?"
The Professorial Provocateur, Noam Chomsky interviewed by Deborah Solomon
A Jew not wanting a Jewish state? What does he want?
A Democracy, not unlike
Avraham Burg (another Jew):
"Between the Jordan and the Mediterranean there is no longer a clear Jewish majority. And so, fellow citizens, it is not possible to keep the whole thing without paying a price.
We cannot keep a Palestinian majority under an Israeli boot and at the same time think ourselves the only democracy in the Middle East.
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There cannot be democracy without equal rights for all who live here, Arab as well as Jew. We cannot keep the territories and preserve a Jewish majority in the world's only Jewish state – not by means that are humane and moral and Jewish."
West Bank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Would you agree there is currently no clear Jewish majority between the Jordan and Mediterranean?
