The US and Israel have demanded further that Palestinians not only recognize Israel's rights as a state in the international system, but that they al… - Noam Chomsky

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The US and Israel have demanded further that Palestinians not only recognize Israel's rights as a state in the international system, but that they also recognize Israel's abstract "right to exist," a concept that has no place in international law or diplomacy, and a right claimed by no one. In effect, the US and Israel are demanding that Palestinians not only recognize Israel in the normal fashion of interstate relations, but also formally accept the legitimacy of their expulsion from their own land. They cannot be expected to accept that, just as Mexico does not grant the US the "right to exist" on half of Mexico's territory, gained by conquest.

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About Noam Chomsky

Avram Noam Chomsky (born 7 December 1928) is an American linguist, analytical philosopher, cognitive scientist, political analyst, human rights activist and anarcho-socialist.

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نحن نعارض -بمثابرة وإصرار- الديمقراطية إذا كانت نتائجها خارج نطاق سيطرتنا، والمشكلة مع الديمقراطيات الحقيقية أنها عرضة للوقوع فريسة للهرطقة التى تزعم أن على الحكومات الاستجابة لمصالح شعوبها بدلاً من مصالح المستثمرين الأمريكيين.

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The issue is whether we want to live in a free society or whether we want to live under what amounts to a form of self-imposed totalitarianism... admiring with awe the leader who saved them from destruction, while the educated masses goose-step on command and repeat the slogans they're supposed to repeat and the society deteriorates at home. We end up serving as a mercenary enforcer state, hoping that others are going to pay us to smash up the world.

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