Israel is a terrorist state by definition: Chomsky »
Posted By tehranchik 9 months, 1 week ago in Political NewsAvram Noam Chomsky, 80, is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, and lecturer. He is an Institute Professor emeritus and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is well known in the academic and scientific community as the father of modern linguistics. Since the 1960s, he has become known more widely as a political dissident, and a libertarian socialist intellectual.
Voniati: Though of Jewish decent, you have been repeatedly accused of anti-Semitism. How do you respond?
Chomsky: The most important comment about that was made by the distinguished statesman Abba Eban, maybe 35 years ago, in an address to the American people. He said that there are two kinds of criticism of Zionism (by Zionism I mean the policies of the state of Israel). One is criticism by anti-Semites and the other is criticism by neurotic self-hating Jews. That eliminates 100% of possible criticism. The neurotic self-hating Jews, he actually mentioned two, I was one and I.F. Stone, a well-known writer was another). I mean that’s the kind of thing that would come out of a communist party in its worst days. But you see, I can’t really be called anti-Semite because I’m Jewish so I must be a neurotic self-hating Jew, by definition. The assumption is that the policies of the state of Israel are perfect, so therefore any kind of criticism must be illegitimate. And that’s from Abba Eban, one of the most distinguished figures in Israel, the most westernized … praised, considered a dove.
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Thinker229 months, 1 week ago
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>Israel is a terrorist state by definition: Chomsky
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By Chomsky's definition, Tehranchik...
By his definition, a person who hates Jews is NOT an anti-Semite if he is Jewish himself.
By his definition, Zionism is "policies of the state of Israel" and NOT the right of the Jews for self-determination.
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Edmar149 months, 1 week ago
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The concept of a democracy includes the right of all individuals to voice their opinions regardless of whether it is rational, intelligent, or based in reality. Because Chomsky says what he believes hardly makes it so. The majority of Americans after 9/11 believe that all muslims are terrorists irregardless of the fact that all terrorists appear to be Muslim. Our founding fathers recognized that freedom of speech was a right granted to all people, smart and stupid alike. Chomsky isn't the first stupid person to exercise his first amendment rights. He certainly won't be the last either.
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Thinker229 months, 1 week ago
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> ...their neighbors in the Gaza Strip fire rockets at Israel and hide behind women and children. Is this a terrorist state as well?
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No. For starters, Gaza is not a state yet. More importantly, however, to become a "terrorist state" (at least, by Chomski's definition) a state must be A TARGET for terrorist attacks, not a terrorist BASE.
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jimdoze9 months, 1 week ago
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I have a conscience. I read it.
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Chomsky continues to live in a world of walnuts and jellied candy fillers, as he always has.
Christiana Voniati reveals her otherworldly predispositions with the following phrase...
"To explain myself, the global financial crisis has challenged the almost absolute U.S. global hegemony"
I wonder how the mullahs allowed an interview of a man by a woman, whom I doubt was wearing a burkha when the interview occurred (or at any other time), into the Tehran Times? -
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earthlingerer9 months, 1 week ago
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Actually, if you really had read it, you would have at least glanced over these words:
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"Following is an excerpt of Professor Chomsky’s interview with Christiana Voniati, who is head of International News Department POLITIS Newspaper, Nicosia, Cyprus."
Any normal, english speaking and reading person would interpret this means the article is actually from the Cyprus newspaper, just reprinted in part by an Iranian newspaper.
And take your ignorant a$$ to some photo sites and see how many women in Teheran actually wear burkhas. Maybe a google image search using "teheran" and "women" would set your course a little closer to the truth.-
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Thinker229 months, 1 week ago
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The link below contains instructions of what women (and men) are allowed to wear in Iran, earthlingerer:
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jimdoze9 months, 1 week ago
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I am a "normal, english speaking and reading person". Does it matter that Christiana Voniati is the head of International News Department POLITIS Newspaper, Nicosia, Cyprus?
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And, in keeping with your diktat, I took my ignorant a$$ to Google, entered Teheran and Women... and the first hit I got was the following:
Exile for Teheran women who flout dress code
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?...
Whew! For a moment you had me worried that I was way off base!
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Thinker229 months, 1 week ago
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Chomski:
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" He [Abba Eban] said that there are two kinds of criticism of Zionism (by Zionism I [Chomski, NOT Abba Eban] mean the policies of the state of Israel). One is criticism by anti-Semites and the other is criticism by neurotic self-hating Jews. That eliminates 100% of possible criticism."
The words above prove that Chomski is a liar. He tells us about a statement supposely made by Abba Eban but then TWISTS the definition of Zionism to suit his (Chomski's) purposes.
> "The neurotic self-hating Jews, he actually mentioned two, I was one and I.F. Stone, a well-known writer was another). I mean that’s the kind of thing that would come out of a communist party in its worst days."
This is a pretty strange claim (and a blatant lie as well). Why should one be a member of the "Comminist party in its worst days" to say that anti-Zionist Jews (Jews declaring that their own people DO NOT have a right for self-determination) are "neurotic self-hating Jews"? The fact is that the Communist party in the Soviet Union FORCED Jewish celebrities to condemn Zionism and praised those who did as heroes, not as "neurotic self-hating Jews".
> "But you see, I can’t really be called anti-Semite because I’m Jewish so I must be a neurotic self-hating Jew, by definition."
This is still another lie by Mr. Chomski. An anti-Semite is one hating Jews no matter if this Jew-hater is himself Jewish or not. Further, if Mr. Chomski is a "neurotic self-hating Jew" then it means that he is a Jew-hater which is the same as anti-Semite.
> "The assumption is that the policies of the state of Israel are perfect, so therefore any kind of criticism must be illegitimate. And that’s from Abba Eban, one of the most distinguished figures in Israel, the most westernized … praised, considered a dove."
This is still another lie. The assumption above comes from Mr. Chomski, NOT from Abba Eban as it's Chomski who invented the definition of Zionism as "the policies of the state of Israel".
Anti-Semitism is a form of racism. It's hatred of Jews because they are Jewish. Hatred of Jews is no different from hatred of Blacks, Armenians, Tutsis or Albanians. All forms of racist hatred are based on lies. With all due respect to Mr. Chomski's achievements in science and academia he is a racist liar (as I've shown above). -
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