When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the American Jewish community, there is little willingness to face the fact that the Palestinian Arabs have suffered a monstrous historical… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In accord with the reigning single standard, the major terrorist atrocities—or worse, aggression—are excluded from the canon of international terrorism.” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[According to the rigid dogma] we have to believe the United States would have so-called liberated Iraq even if its main products… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and killed half a dozen Hamas militants. Well,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was unprecedented elite condemnation of the plans to invade Iraq. Sensible analysts were able to perceive that the enterprise carried significant… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You can't mention Hezbollah in the U.S. media without putting in the context of "Iranian-supported Hezbollah." That's its name. Its name is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Looking at polls of Arab public opinion, you look at popular figures, the most popular figure is the prime minister of Turkey,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The idea that Hezbollah is acting as an agent of Iran is very dubious. It's not accepted by specialists on Iran or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On the other hand, you have to balance that against expanding our nuclear forces, add to our so-called depleted military, which is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Arab public opinion does not regard Iran as a hostile entity. In fact it's so supportive of Iran that a majority would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Eight months [after 9/11], after the most intensive international investigation in history, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation informed the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It happened: the first 9/11, it happened on September 11, 1973, in Chile. We did it. Was that interfering or hacking a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's kind of a hidden point which isn't being brought out, and that is that it is inconceivable that the U.S. would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“You might look back at the Zionist movement—there were plenty of Jews killed by other Jews. They killed collaborators, traitors and people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Biblical archaeology was developed early in this century in an effort to substantiate the authenticity of the Biblical account. It's by now… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A large majority of Americans believe that the U.N., not the U.S., should take the lead in working with Iraqis to transfer… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Israel has a couple of hundred nuclear weapons and also chemical and biological weapons. This stockpile is not only a threat in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism - mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States is the Godfather when it establishes edicts. Others had better live up to them, or else. We have to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was a striking example of this in Pakistan when the US sent in Special Forces, to be honest, to kill Osama… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The western mantra is that Israel seeks negotiations without preconditions, while the Palestinians refuse. The opposite is more accurate. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Unlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has hundreds of nuclear weapons, has advanced… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly, the U.S. harbors leading international terrorists, people described by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department as leading terrorists, like Orlando Bosch,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Remember, the U.S. is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty of that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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