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Chomsky on Israel-Palestine 21 years ago
(yt.artemislena.eu)
Selected transcript:
2:19 Let's talk about in the Middle East for example
where Chevron says we are experiencing terrorist
bombings and therefore we have to have a big
operation in the in the West Bank and and root out
terrorism
2:30 and and people say "hey you're violating human
rights"
2:34 Yeah the what's that this is the 35th year of a
harsh brutal and vicious occupation supported
unilaterally by the United States, constant terror and
2:44 atrocities -- suppose Palestinians say
2:48 "well we're under terrorist attack for 35 years
therefore we have a right to carry out suicide
bombings" -- do you accept this?
2:55 Does anybody except this? Nobody accepts this.
Right, then how come
2:59 everyone accepts the Israeli claim to be doing it
which is much weaker claim?
3:04 They are the military occupiers.
3:08 Those who defend suicide bombing, and
they're very few, have not a leg to stand on.
3:14 Those who defend the Israeli atrocities,
including the US government,
3:20 most intellectual opinion, a good bit of the West
generally, yeah they don't have a leg to stand on
either -- and have a much weaker position.
3:27 You asked us after September 11 one of your
points we ought to look in the mirror we being
America or the West way to look in the mirror at
3:34 our own was that a way of saying look people
like bin Laden are angry at us
3:41 for good reason why what I was saying
3:46 The statement of mine that you just quoted is a
very conservative statement;
3:51 In fact it was articulated by George Bush's
favorite philosopher Jesus Christ who pointed out
famously defined the notion hypocrite --
4:04 a hypocrite is a person who focuses on the other
fellas crimes and refuses to look at his own.
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