[lbo-talk] FT on massacre

[Eric Beck]

So how can the Chomskyan/Estabrookian thesis of Israel's chasteness
before it met the Yankee Lothario explain the brutality of the Nakba
and the immediate post-48 period? Undoubtedly Israel has gotten
nastier in the last 40 years, but to attribute that solely to US
machinations instead of to Palestinian resistance as well is
maddening, condescending, and more than a little Orientalist. And
Chomsky does this. To him, Palestinian resistance is always secondary,
something to mention when talking about the nobility of Palestinians,
but it's always reactive and never a cause of Israeli aggression.