Noam Chomsky to RT: Bush torturer, Obama just kills

[The Northerner]

Run time: 12:08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5pur4-dfiY   Posted on YouTube: September 29, 2011 By YouTube Member: RussiaToday Views on YouTube: 302   Posted on DU: September 29, 2011 By DU Member: The Northerner Views on DU: 2019

 
Pinning its hopes on the sole support of the US, Israel risks a collapse if it is ever withdrawn - much like apartheid-era South Africa, prominent scholar Professor Noam Chomsky warns. ­He recalls how South Africans felt safe to ignore a UN embargo and corporations pulling out of their country throughout the 1980s, as long as the Reagan administration continued to support them. As soon as the US withdrew its support, the apartheid regime collapsed. "For 35 years, the US and Israel have been rejecting a political settlement that is supported virtually by the entire world. A couple of months ago, there was a meeting of the oligarchs -- people who pretty much run the economy ," Chomsky says, "and they warned the government that it better accept something like this resolution, because otherwise, Israel will be, as they put it, South Africanized: even more isolated, with boycotts, refusal to load ships, and their economy will collapse."

[SlimJimmy]

1. Is Noam Chomsky comparing Israel to S. Africa? That's quite a stretch. (nt)

[Scruffy1]

3. There is a big difference.

Tel Aviv and Cape Town are 4,678 miles apart for one thing. Oh, and the brown skinned majority is a little darker in South Africa.

[SlimJimmy]

9. So the blacks were able to vote and hold office in S Africa?

[liberation]

11. Voting rights was not the defining characteristic of Apartheid

[SlimJimmy]

12. You didn't answer the question. Nice dodge. (nt)

[RoccoR5955]

4. not really.

Not in the next few years when the number of non-Jewish Palestinians will be more than the number of Jewish Israelites. This is nothing new.

[SlimJimmy]

10. Can the Palestinians vote and hold office?

[stockholmer]

7. (Media Matters) in re. to Israel,Obama wins the prize for most sycophantic US president in history

M.J. Rosenberg, journalist and Senior Foreign Policy Fellow at Media Matters Action Network, http://mediamattersaction.org/ discusses his two recent articles “If Tom Friedman can say it, you can too” http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/09/2011921103657427605.html about how criticism of the Israel lobby has gone mainstream and “On Israel & Palestine, Barack Obama Is Rick Perry;” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/obama-palestine-bid_b_977929.html the large percentage of Israelis who are OK with a Palestinian state, even though their government vehemently opposes one; why, when it comes to Israel, Obama wins the prize for most sycophantic US President in history; AIPAC’s excellent return on investment for its campaign contributions and lobbying efforts; and why Democrats are even more slavishly devoted to the Likud party line than Republicans.

http://dissentradio.com/radio/11_09_26_rosenberg.mp3 (Right click, save as)

M.J. Rosenberg is Senior Foreign Policy Fellow at Media Matters Action Network. Previously, he worked on Capitol Hill for various Democratic members of the House and Senate for 15 years. He was also a Clinton political appointee at USAID. In the early 1980s, he was editor of AIPACs weekly newsletter Near East Report. From 1998-2009, he was director of policy at Israel Policy Forum.

[Poll_Blind]

2. Extra-judicial executions are acceptable if a Democrat orders them. This guy is a pinko.

I'll bet he's got a shortwave radio and a one-time code book hidden in a hollow nickel.

PB

[RoccoR5955]

5. No he's not.

If you listen to what he says, and go look it up, you will find that Chomsky knows exactly what he is talking about.

[Poll_Blind]

6. Sorry, I should apologize- I guess my sarcasm was bit too much on the dry side.

I watched the video carefully and I agree with Chomsky's observations, entirely. Not always the case. But in this case, definitely. I'm not expecting some sort of Liberal Utopia but, dammit, with a Democratic President continuing some of Bush's worst policies it strikes me that the President could be doing more to uphold the rule of Law and the checks and balances in The Constitution.

PB

[DeSwiss]

8. K&R