Guest Column by Noam Chomsky – Facts on the Ground

Noam Chomsky, a moral voice in the West, is 86 years old. Former President Jimmy Carter, another of the rare moral voices in the West turned 90 on October 1, three days ago. What will become of us in the West when these great men pass away and the moral voice in the West goes silent? Who can take their place? Obama? Biden? Jeb Bush? Hilary Clinton? Mitch McConnell? Harry Reid? Nancy Pelosi? John Boehner? Jack Lew? Lloyd Blankfein? Jamie Dimon? Janet Napolitano? Phyllis Wise? James Clapper?
There are no replacements. The total evil that America has become will soon be apparent to the world. Guest Column by Noam Chomsky – Facts on the Ground
October 04, 2014 ‘ICH’ – On Aug. 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.

This post was published at Paul Craig Roberts on October 4, 2014.