February 23, 2004

Noam Chomsky op. ed. in NY Times

A bunch of bloggers covered this one. Chomsky wrote this anti-US, anti-Israel Editorial and the NY Times published it. This coming one day after palestinian Arab terrorists blew up a bus killing eight people and wounding 60. Charles at L.G.F. calls it thus: bq. New York Times Hits New Low Words fail me. bq. Noam Chomsky is now a New York Times op-ed columnist, with a rabid anti-Israel screed that the Times publishes one day after Palestinians murder a bus full of children. (and read some of the comments left on his site regarding this) Meanwhile, over at Roger L. Simon's blog, he does a wonderful analysis: bq. No one is more hidebound and predictable in our society today than the soi-disant leftwing academic (I doubt Marx would have thought much of them) of whom Noam Chomsky is the prime exemplar. Nothing, not even one phrase, let alone a full sentence, is ever surprising in what this man writes. It’s almost as if his essays were written by a computer program. Everything appears rehashed. And more: bq. I wonder with Chomsky whether he really cares for the Palestinian people. His comments seem mostly an exercise in narcissism. This is perhaps most clear when he speaks of water rights. These rights, he claims, will be deprived the Palestinians. Yet he says this in full knowledge that Palestinian Chairman Arafat is a multi-billionaire who, with all the aid money he has stolen, could provide the entire Palestinian population with Evian in perpetuity and have plenty left over. They also could have had a state with all or most of the land Chomsky says the Israelis are grabbing several years ago. Not to be left out of the fray, Iowahawk weighs in with what appears to be the first draft of this editorial. As Ian at Inoperable Terran says: " 8X drink alert " Oh yeah, the editorial if you want to read it is here. Save yourself the time though -- unless you are really into Chomsky. Posted by DaveH at February 23, 2004 4:39 PM