Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Noam Chomsky - Problems of Knowledge & Freedom (Ideas at the House) - YouTube

Noam Chomsky - Problems of Knowledge & Freedom (Ideas at the House) - YouTube
Netanyahu’s Likud, “flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river.” Nevertheless, it was Netanyahu’s 1996 government that was the first to use the phrase. It agreed that Palestinians can call whatever fragments of Palestine are left to them “a state” if they like — or they can call them “fried chicken” (David Bar- Illan, director of Communications and Policy Planning in the office of the Prime Minister; Interview, Palestine-Israel Journal, Summer/Autumn 1996)…