[Peace-discussion] Chomsky, Free Arab Voice On Hizbullah

[michelle]

Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Chomsky, Free Arab Voice On Hizbullah

The editorial board of the Free Arab Voice web site recently issued a 
"Declaration in support of the Arab Resistance in Lebanon" (excerpts 
below). Thinking about and researching the declaration and Hizbullah, I 
ended up on a Hizbullah web site where I was a bit surprised to find the 
text of a May 19, 2006, Daily Star (Lebanon) article on Noam Chomsky's 
remarks to the press in Beirut. The article is by Jim Quilty and 
entitled "Hizbullah is a Lebanese phenomenon & the resistance should 
keep their weapons." I wasn't able to verify the article on the Daily 
Star web site but the information in the article was corroborated here, 
here, and here.

Below are some excerpts from the article that mention Hizbullah; I have 
mostly deleted his remarks on Iran, opportunism, tactical questions, 
etc. I could not resist leaving in his biting comment on "the nature of 
the political class." I have not edited the non-standard usage of 
quotation marks around Israel, Israeli, etc. and don't know if they 
appeared in the original Daily Star article or were added later.

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Get the links and read the rest of this blog entry at: 
http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2006/07/chomsky-free-arab-voice-on-hizbullah.html