From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants in the West Bank, maintaining the brutal siege on Gaza, separating Gaza from the West Bank and, of course, occupying the Syrian Golan heights, all with full U.S. support.Noam Chomsky
We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.Noam Chomsky
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.Noam Chomsky
Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.Noam Chomsky
If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.Noam Chomsky
Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.Noam Chomsky
Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.Noam Chomsky
It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.Noam Chomsky
The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.Noam Chomsky
If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.Noam Chomsky