Noam Chomsky: Keeping Gaza in a Stranglehold

[marmar]

from In These Times:


Noam Chomsky: Keeping Gaza in a Stranglehold
Israel’s brutalization of Palestinians through exercises in “mowing the lawn” like Operation Protective Edge will persist without a change in U.S. policy.

BY NOAM CHOMSKY


On August 26, Israel and the Palestinian Authority both accepted a cease-fire agreement after a 50-day Israeli assault on Gaza that left 2,100 Palestinians dead and vast landscapes of destruction behind.

The agreement calls for an end to military action by Israel and Hamas as well as an easing of the Israeli siege that has strangled Gaza for many years.

This is, however, just the most recent of a series of cease-fire agreements reached after each of Israel's periodic escalations of its unremitting assault on Gaza.

Since November 2005 the terms of these agreements have remained essentially the same. The regular pattern is for Israel to disregard whatever agreement is in place, while Hamas observes it—as Israel has conceded—until a sharp increase in Israeli violence elicits a Hamas response, followed by even fiercer brutality. ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://inthesetimes.com/article/17214/noam_chomsky_keeping_palestine_gaza_in_a_stranglehod

[KG]

1. AutoChomskyRec

[malaise]

2. Thanks for this

He nailed it as usual

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. Kick for Gaza.

[JEB]

4. I fear that what Israel has done to Gaza has become the model

of how the West (USA and its poodles) will treat the rest of the ME.

[libodem]

5. Me too!

[JEB]

6. Looks like a test run.

Not to see how it works but see if they can get away with it.

[libodem]

7. I hate the silence

It's tacit complicity.