February 23, 2004

Super Noam!

Posted by nerdling | February 23, 2004 11:18 AM

What this wall is really doing is taking Palestinian lands. It is also — as the Israeli sociologist Baruch Kimmerling has described Israel's war of "politicide" against the Palestinians — helping turn Palestinian communities into dungeons, next to which the bantustans of South Africa look like symbols of freedom, sovereignty and self-determination.

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It is misleading to call these Israeli policies. They are American-Israeli policies — made possible by unremitting United States military, economic and diplomatic support of Israel.

• • A Wall as a Weapon, Noam Chomsky on the Israeli barrier hearing

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