Bryan
On 5/28/2010 7:49 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> On May 28, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
>
>> Chomsky regards himself as a supporter of Israel and brags about
>> meeting Walid Jumblat. (Thanks Raed)
>>
>> PS It is an extremely disturbing interview (forget about the Israeli
>> reporter here) but the reference to Israel "harming itself" as Chomsky
>> put it, is telling enough.
>
> No it's not. This is pretty much the same line that Norman Finkelstein
> took when I interviewed him the other day - Israel is destroying two
> societies, the Palestinian and its own. As Norman put it, Israel is
> becoming an even more brutal and ugly place. He also says he doesn't
> care if someone call himself a Zionist, as Chomsky does (and so too
> Richard Goldstone), as long as he's on the right side of the I-P
> conflict. As Norman said in the interview, this might not please
> Palestinian purists, but he wants peace, not ideological litmus tests.
>
> I'll be posting the show pretty soon.
>
> Doug
>