Chomsky on Israel-Palestine 21 years ago

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<span style="color:#323232;">2:19 Let's talk about in the Middle East for example
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> where Chevron says we are experiencing terrorist 
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> bombings and therefore we have to have a big 
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> operation in the in the West Bank and and root out 
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> terrorism
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2:30 and and people say "hey you're violating human
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> rights"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2:34 Yeah the what's that this is the 35th year of a 
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> harsh brutal and vicious occupation supported 
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> unilaterally by the United States, constant terror and
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2:44 atrocities -- suppose Palestinians say
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2:48 "well we're under terrorist attack for 35 years 
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> therefore we have a right to carry out suicide 
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> bombings" -- do you accept this? 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2:55 Does anybody except this? Nobody accepts this. 
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Right, then how come
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2:59 everyone accepts the Israeli claim to be doing it 
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> which is much weaker claim?
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">3:04  They are the military occupiers.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">3:08  Those who defend suicide bombing, and 
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> they're very few, have not a leg to stand on.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">3:14 Those who defend the Israeli atrocities, 
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> including the US government,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">3:20 most intellectual opinion, a good bit of the West 
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> generally, yeah they don't have a leg to stand on 
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> either -- and have a much weaker position.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">3:27 You asked us after September 11 one of your 
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> points we ought to look in the mirror we being 
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> America or the West way to look in the mirror at
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">3:34 our own was that a way of saying look people 
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> like bin Laden are angry at us
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">3:41 for good reason why what I was saying
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">3:46 The statement of mine that you just quoted is a 
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> very conservative statement;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">3:51 In fact it was articulated by George Bush's 
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> favorite philosopher Jesus Christ who pointed out 
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> famously defined the notion hypocrite -- 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">4:04 a hypocrite is a person who focuses on the other 
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> fellas crimes and refuses to look at his own.
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