Chomsky on “Occupy Wall Street” and Israel Imminent Collapse [VIDEO]
04. Oct, 2011
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U.S in vicious cycle of social & economic issues, it’s about time for some protest.
- Israel now on the way to South Africa style isolation.
- U.S backed dictators but shifted policy when they were overthrown.
- EU takes cowardly stance unwilling to oppose U.S position.
In an interview with RT’s Marina Portnaya, prominent scholar Professor Noam Chomsky gives his take on some of
Prof. Noam Chomsky
the world’s political hot topics.
Chomsky vividly shares his reflections on the wall street protests and warns of an impending serious poverty and real unemployment similar to the great depression, he talks about the 2012 American presidential campaign spending and how positions in both the white house and the congress are being bought, not earned and he refers to the killing of Osama Bin Laden and how this marks a shift of American policy from Bush’s abducting and torturing whoever the CIA thought posed a threat to the U.S to Obama’s “just kill `em when you spot `em” approach regardless of the legalities overlooked in the process.
He concludes that the killing of Osama Bin Laden was done, in such a way, as to infuriate, and may be implicate the Pakistani military, something he seriously regards as extremely dangerous.
In regard to the Arab spring, Chomsky acknowledges that the U.S and its western allies did not support the Tunisian or the Egyptian revolutions; rather they opposed them, and backed the dictator till the last minute and then shifted policy when they were overthrown.
Pinning its hopes on the sole support of the US, Chomsky warns “the Zionist state would risk a collapse if that support was to be withdrawn or compromised – much like apartheid-era South Africa.” He recalls how South Africans felt safe to ignore a UN embargo and corporations pulling out of their country throughout the 1980s, as long as the Reagan administration continued to support them.
As soon as the US withdrew its support, the apartheid regime collapsed. “For 35 years, the US and Israel have been rejecting a political settlement that is supported virtually by the entire world.
A couple of months ago, there was a meeting of the oligarchs — people who pretty much run the economy of Israel,” Chomsky says, “and they warned the government that it better accept something like this resolution, because otherwise, Israel will be, as they put it, South Africanized: even more isolated, with boycotts, refusal to load ships, and their economy will collapse.”
Source: Pyramidion
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Funny, coming from Zio-Lite Chomsky.
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Michael Reply:
November 5th, 2011 at 4:11 pm
Funny thing. no corporation os withdrawing from israel. basically most of them are moving in.
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I’ve always loved hearing/reading Chomsky’s ideas. His insights are very stimulating. I do hope what he says comes true…BUT…beware, he is an “israeli” and he is a component in the zionist machine…
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Yes Chomsky was raised Zionist and lived in Israel for a while. That doesn’t mean anything. Many of the greatest minds critical of Zionist ideology and expansionism were Israeli-born. It doesn’t make them “part of the machine”. These are people, human beings, in Israel and many stand in solidarity with Palestine.
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Thats below the belt, and makes one wonder if you have read or understud anything he says.
Its universal.
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It is not American tax dollars that keep Israel’s economy – and therefore its political agenda – on track. It is the abject refusal of the EU parliament to abrogate the EU-Israel Association Agreement that gives Israel – a non EU member that is not even in Europe – an unheard-of advantage in providing free trading access to all 27 EU member states which together form the world’s largest market. Israel has been in continuous breach of its obligations of that agreement yet the EU Commission does nothing. It is not an agreement but a carte blanche for Israel to have made the EU its largest trading partner notwithstanding its violations of the human rights provisions of the agreement.
In other words, not an agreement but a licence to blockade Gaza and restrict essential supplies to 500,000 families. And the EU, including the UK, France, Germany and Spain etc continue to allow Israel access to their state security and to partner their military strategic systems! It is too bizarre to even make a movie script. Yet it’s happening.
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The only other people hated more by Arabs then Jews are Palestinians. No Arab country was willing to make their life on THEIR territory better for them. EU/US/Israel on the other hand make life for Arabs 100x better than their native countries. That’s why Arabs run from their own regimes. But you don’t see Arabs rushing to escape Israel “regime” now into other Arabs countries. You all love Chomsky because you are not smart enough to see bias in his analysis.
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Apartheid South Africa collapsed because it relied on a black workforce that refused to cooperate (Israel’s economy does not rely on Palestinians) and the white population was geographically dispersed (Israeli Jews are geographically consolidated). So the comparison isn’t really apt because Israel is not vulnerable the was SA was. Sorry guys its wishful thinking!
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The one who is about to collapse is the senile irrelevant Noam Chomsky.
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