Excerpt: "The United States is a violent nation
that exports violence to other parts of the world, said Noam Chomsky."
Noam Chomsky. (photo: EPA)
Chomsky Accuses the US of Aiding Israeli Atrocities in
Gaza
By
teleSUR
26 August 15
The United States is a violent
nation that exports violence to other parts of the world, said Noam Chomsky.
.S. political commentator and analyst Noam Chomsky
Tuesday accused the United States of providing the decisive ongoing support for
the Israeli atrocities against the Palestinians.
The internationally renowned intellectual, writer and
linguist said Israel used U.S.-made warplanes to indiscriminately bomb Gaza
last year throughout 51 days.
“When what is called Israeli jet planes bomb
defenceless targets in Gaza, that is U.S. jet planes with Israeli pilots,” he
said, according to Mint Press. “And the same with the high-tech munition and so
on and so forth. So this is, again, sadism masked as compassion. Those are the
actions.”
Recently, Chomsky told Democracy Now that the United
States is a violent state and is it exporting violence to other parts of the
world like the Israeli occupation.
Chomsky also harshly criticized what Israel is doing
in the Occupied Territories, saying it is much worse than apartheid.
“To call it apartheid is a gift to Israel, at least if
by ‘apartheid’ you mean South African-style apartheid,” he said. “What is
happening in the Occupied Territories is much worse. There is a crucial
difference. The South African Nationalists needed the black population. That
was their workforce.”
But, in the case of the relationship of Israel with
the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories is completely different, he said.
“They just do not want them. They want them out, or at
least in prison,” he said.
He accused the United States' mainstream media, such
as CBS, of being subservient to Israeli propaganda agencies.
“It is a shameful moment for U.S. media when it
insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent,
aggressive state,” he said, in reference to Israel.
According to a United Nations report, Israel killed
2,139 Palestinians in 51 days last Summer. Of those, 490 were children. More
than 11,000 Palestinians were injured in the attacks. Three thousand of them
were children. Over 20,000 homes were destroyed and at least 500,000
Palestinians were displaced. Damages were estimated at over US$5 billion.
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