While I fully support a boycott, it must be planned and executed with some understanding of how to increase chances of a potent impact. Chomsky offers a practical warning.

But, let’s all be clear. Chomsky was writting on these matters way before anyone else would say a WORD. Back in the 60s and 70s he was cutting into the Zionist/Israeli state and the US Imperial Empire. His world-view is clear with solid historical body of evidence to support his conclusions.

Never once have I gotten from Chomsky a sense of dogma, quite the opposite. You can disagree (as I do on a couple of important points) with him, but his arguments are always fact based and not based on emotional sense of personal destiny.

We make far too much of him by holding him up as a symbol of obstructionism. He seems only to be taunting people to think for ourselves.

What Chomsky “fails to see” which is “quite obvious” is he role he has played for nearly 40 years in aiding and abetting in the rise of Zionism — a racist ideology.

If there was an execution, it could have been related to action of a thug by the name of Mohammed Dahlan, a Palestinian who spy on his own people for Israel and is part of the security team around puppet Mahmud Abbas, and helps Israeli military to locate Hamas leaders so the military can kill them to eliminate leaders of Palestinian people who resist zionist fascists in occupied land.

A senior Hamas official alleged to TIME magazine that Dahlan appeared in El Arish, an Egyptian coastal town near Gaza, shortly before the Israel attack, and had sent in Fatah loyalists to “cooperate with the Israelis” on the ground in hunting down Hamas commanders. Hamas officials say their allegation is based on interrogation of suspected collaborators accused of helping to pinpoint Hamas’ hideouts and weapons caches for Israeli targeting. The objective, say Hamas officials, was to help Israel decimate Hamas activists in the hope of reestablishing Fatah control in Gaza.

This is the result of brutal Israeli occupation where keeps Palestinian poor, dispossessed and divided to use them in the game of divide and rule against each others to advance Israel expansionist policy.

Contrary to whatever Chomsky says this has not been designed by the US. This is Israelis’ own crimes against humanity and those Zionists who support the policy around the world. This is NOT US-Israel holocaust of Gaza rather is ISRAELI made Holocaust in GAZA and the zionist population inside and outside the occupied Palestine who supports such a crime.
For the first time, at least for me, I saw in the following link, that Chomsky has referred to Zionist delaying tactics to take over more land:
{I also agree that Israel “can continue to live with an unresolved conflict.” In fact, a leading principle of Zionist doctrine long before the state was established, and continuing since, has been to try to delay diplomacy while establishing “facts on the ground,” to determine the contours of some eventual settlement. That is exactly what is happening now.}
He still cannot spell out that Israel, not the United States, is afraid of ‘peace’ and has no intension of doing so because Zionist policy is based on expansion rather than resolving the conflict to end the Palestinian tragedy.
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/20518

Are you surprised that EU does not share your portrayal of Hamas firing rockets at civilians as “victims”? Gaza people are victims of Hamas Perdify and abuse of human shields.

“fairly treating two peoples’ equally valid claims to one land”
Since 1947 UN resolution 181, there was a Jewish state and an Arab state. TWO people, TWO lands.
Do you believe that UN 1947 resolution 181 had a “racist basis”?

We know that Palestinian Arabs did not accepted the resolution, Palestinian Jews did and established a state of Israel, which was immediately attacked by Palestinian Arabs and ALL the neighboring Arab countries and then some.

Palestinian State
So let’s go along the time line again, reviewing the facts.
1949 – Palestinian Arabs and ALL Arab countries waging war agains new state of Israel – FAILED!
Armistice agreement signed in 1949 with Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, (indirectly with Iraq)
West bank and majority of Jerusalem in Jordan control, Gaza in Egyptian control.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949_Armistice_Agreements

West bank and Gaza were under Arab RULE / CONTROL / OCCUPATION from 1949-1967.
Please, enlight us about the ACTIONS taken by Palestinian leadership to establish Palestinian state and the RESISTANCE agains their Occupiers: Jordan and Egypt.

Now if there was established a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza anytime between 1949 and 1967, then the Palestinian refugee problem would disappear. You can’t have refugees if they are living in their own state. Now that would not be an OUTCOME that Palestinians and the Arab League would like. What about the VICTIMS and all the money flowing from UNRWA?

Since 1948, Israel was attacked, Arab neighboring states waged war against Israel multiple times and they failed ALL of them and they failed Palestinians.
Yet, it’s an irony that Palestinian leadership could have only developed under Israeli occupation since 1967.
Now could you please compare Palestinians quality of life, based on some world acceptable metrics, under occupation by Israel after 1967 vs Jordan / Egypt between 1949 to 1967?

Israel is desparately searching for Peace. If Palestinians are still searching for Justice or Revenge they will continue, as they have been in the last 60 years, being victims by choice.

I hope they will find the will and empower the leadership to search for Peace!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL9CKKoEfe8&feature=channel_page#

israel= theft of land. israel+palestine=israel. israe+golan=israel. israel+ part of jordan=israel. israel+plus lebanon=israel. and so on

in fact, at first opportunity, the world will derecognize israel in any size.thnx

Resistance is not labeled as Terrorism. Targeting civilians and killing as many as you can is Terrorism (including your own people).

In Iraq, is it realistic to ignore that ALL local politics is tribal? Can you really not to acknowledge the fault lines? Naive does not help building new country institutions or practice freedom. Iraq or Afghanistan, the easiest way to test the measure of Tribalism is to see the extent of inter-tribal marriages.

“True democracy risks the election Hamas in Gaza more recently.”
How do you save this baby Democracy after the power fell into the hands that do not have any intentions to maintain it, after they grabbed the power?

Is it about LAND or JUSTICE ?

The west has been paying for UNRWA since 1948. A refugee agency created only and especially for Palestinians that has not resettled any Palestinians and still classifies 4th generation and Palestinians with Jordanian citizenship as refugees – which not acceptable for any other tens of millions of refugees around the world .

Israeli Arabs citizens have equal rights. Arabic is the second official language in Israel. There are 10 Israeli Arab members in Parliament, Supreme Court judge, …etc

Israel is desperate for Peace and will negotiate with anybody that has the power to govern and deliver on the signed agreement! That creates strange bed fellows, but you need SOMEONE to negotiate and close a deal!