Opinion  Sever Plocker
Noam Chomsky applauds jihad
Sever Plocker
Published: 18.05.06, 10:13
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1. Chomsky - rambling idiot
Susan   (05.18.06)
He's just an idiotic, pompous old man who doesn't deserve to be addressed as Prof.
2. chomsky likes
Joy Springreen   (05.18.06)
revisionism.
3. Reality Really Bites!
Anwar ,   New Delhi, India   (05.18.06)
That's Chomsky talking reality. Albeit a little late.
4. First signs of dementia
Sivan ,   Tel Aviv   (05.18.06)
5. We were here before
Benjamin ,   TA Israel   (05.18.06)
Those are exactly the same left intellectuals who welcomed Soviet Union "peace efforts", declared it to be a most progerssive state and explaned fatality of confrontation with Soviet Union because Soviet Union is invincible. What a surprise for them was the fall of the Soviet Union! Now they found a new darling - muslim fundamentalists. With their luck they will be in the same situation again.
6. Noam Chomsky is the most respected academic in the UK
Ellen Prescott ,   Southsea, Hampshire   (05.18.06)
His excellence in linguistics and political science has rightly earned our admiration. Clearly, the reason that we have Islamic liberation movements is because of American and Israeli imperialism. More and more young Muslims who are living under occupation feel that there is no way out other than to commit acts of 'terror.' And, Muslims who are in countries adjacent to those that are occupied feel solidarity with their Muslim brothers and also feel a rage and anger and feel that violence is the only way that their pain and frustration can be noticed. To solve the root of the problem: American and Israeli colonialism in the Muslim world must stop. It is time for the West to keep its honker out of Middle Eastern affairs.
7. Noam Chomsky
gm ,   south africa   (05.18.06)
Only a traitorous, self-hater can call for a jihad on his own people. He needs to be excommunicated and should be ashamed of his views. his ascendants must be really proud.
8. Chomsky demonstrates that intelligence is not wisdom
howard ,   pacific coast, usa   (05.18.06)
Chomsky does not represent anyone but himself. And even other Lebanese are likely angry about this visit, which props up Syria's proxy army in Lebanon at a time when many parties there are trying to figure out how to force Syria's hand. Chomsky is utterly naive. If you want to talk to a person who is both smart and wise, talk to Mr. Robert Aumann, the recent Nobel laureate who holds a PhD in mathematics from MIT, and who clearly understands the real world a lot better than Mr. Chomsky does.
9. The Arabs/Anti-Semites love the Jews who hate other Jews
Ohh..well.. ,   another enemy   (05.18.06)
That is how it has always been and will always be.
10. chomsky is a deranged psychopath
(05.18.06)
11. Who cares what he says?
Charlotte ,   Vienna   (05.18.06)
These doomesday scenarios-Iran is everyone's problem and the West is too weak to act. As throughout it's history Israel will stand proud and strong-I am just wondering what our little Europe will stand like.Very worrying for us.
12. Leftist Agenda
David ,   Cincinnati   (05.18.06)
The second to last sentence of this article says it all. Here they go again (as Ronald Reagan once said of Jimmy Carter, a poster child of the Leftist neo-anti-Israel/anti-semitic union). Perhaps Richard Nixon's disgraced V-P, Sprio Agnew, was right after all in referring to that same crowd as, "An effete corps of impudent snobs!" Get ready for more, much more of Chomsky and his ilk if, g-d forbid, Democrats wrest control of the U.S. House this fall.
13. Better clever oponents...
Inyaki ,   Bilbao, Basque   (05.18.06)
If I have to choose between Plocker, who almost always gets it wrong, and a clever guy like Chomsky, I must choose Chomsky, though his political agenda is just an oposit to mine. At any rate one should always read carefully what Chomsky has to say. Inyaki
14. One man's meat........
Ram ,   London   (05.18.06)
Chomsky is the ideal agent to separate the pro and anti Israel mob. The fact that "he is the most respected academic in the UK" as decribed by #6, speaks volumes. Israel has some serious battles ahead; nothing new. It should keep its nerve, stay focused and march forward regardless of the Chomskys of this world.
15. that hurts a lot
notsojew19 ,   usa   (05.18.06)
watver my frnds kall me i tok it as raciism..but as i study and look back in time or hi-story...it seems 2 be true..i dunoo much abt pal-isrl conflict..but i suppose isr s a state is evil no coz pals or mosl hate but it harms america i.e mhy mothercountry...and i luv it..my parents r hard jews(shabath and all..sick pokings of theirs) and then preaching me 2 b a jew..isr ate our taxes..our leaders and our morals..and also abuse usians some 1 old me 50 mil and decreasing from world..amrica will emerge again after isr goes down ..supose...early ..the better..last shalom to shalomians heheheheh
16. Chomsky is evil
(05.18.06)
17. Chomsky? -It's sounds like a chewing-gum
Rafi ,   N, Arg   (05.18.06)
Must be to chew and spell it out.
18. To #6 - supposedly in Southport.
Sivan ,   Tel-Aviv   (05.18.06)
So why is YOUR honker here? Wouldn't you prefer to write letters of admiration to this nutty professor instead?
19. Re: #6 - You are an Antisemite
Susan   (05.18.06)
Ellen - your true colors are showing. You are an honest anti-semite and G-d forbid any Muslin should blow up any of your family I wonder if you would put "terror" in quotation marks!!
20. Hamas. PeaceNow, Chom, Iran
Yariv ,   Tel Aviv   (05.18.06)
These are anti-Semites. As a "scientist", this guy is zero. He never did anything of value. But together with, Iranian hunta, Peres, Beilin, Naturei Karta, they following in footsteps of NY Times before WWII when they supported Hitler. Nothing new.
21. islamic violence started with invented cult 1300 years ago
Bunnie Meyer ,   Santa Monica, CA   (05.18.06)
and is the source of 99% of violence in the world today.
22. #6
Adam ,   Manchester, UK   (05.18.06)
Its nice of a fellow Brit to justifycondone/support acts of terrorism against innocent men, women & children; on buses, religious meals, cafes, nightclubs, shops, malls as well as soldiers at army checkpoints or whom are just waiting for buses.... (!) Not embarrasing at all..... (!) What you seem to forget is that a lot of the bombers are from middle class families, who have gone or have been to University and have been brainwashed or shamed into doing it by peer pressure or, and this is 100% bona fide, a girl was raped, made pregnant and told in order to take the 'shame' from her family she should undertake a suicide bombing - fortunately, lie hundred of others, she was caught before the act, this is the Palestinian mentality. Take the last bomber, a University student who dropped out, he had is whole life ahead of him, he could have been someone but he chose martyrdom and of course the scores of virgins waiting for him...! Was he oppressed, occupied, in an Arab constructed refugee camp...? NO. Did the Jews that were expelled from the Arab countries of Yemen, Libya, Iraq etc (since Israel's establishment) who had lived in these countries for centuries and lost EVERYTHING, bomb and/or suicide bomb innocent Arab civilians.....? NO! You are making excuses for terror, and you dont look at the full picture. On 7th July this year there is going to be a 2 minutes silence in memory of the victims of the London (suicide) bombings last year. Are you going to stay silent or are you going to justify the attacks by young Muslim, British teenagers saying that they are oppressed, disadvantaged, occupied........? If not, are Israelis a viable target and everyone else is innocent......? If yes, or you anti-Semitic/brainwahed/have a Militant Muslim boyfriend etc? Tick one of the above... In summary You and Noam can go off and live in a lovely, Democratic (!), Hamas led, Palestinian authority but make sure that you cover up....you dont want a beating, do you.....?
23. #15
(05.18.06)
Are you retarded?
24. Chomsky
Alon ,   Ramat Gan, ISR   (05.18.06)
Chomsky, sitting 'safely' in whacky Mass., is obviously ignorant of or blind to the reality that he, too, is a Jew and will one day face the same fate as the rest of us brave enough to call "evil" what it is! He should take a lesson from our German experience and get on board with the rest of us instead of placating the devil.
25. Work it out......
Ram ,   London   (05.18.06)
I love Israel = A few Jews + Evangelists + the rightious few. I hate Israel = A third of the worlds population (moslems) + anti-semites + self-hating Jews + Europeans + the ignorant........ Chomsky is not a fool ;-)
26. #22. Couldn't have said it better myself!
Susan ,   Jerusalem   (05.18.06)
27. NOAM CHUMPSKY
myron ernst ,   usa   (05.18.06)
I ask for help on the subject of Chumpsky. I recall reading in some newspaper of journal article , the following about the origin of NOMAN CHUMPSKY's unquenchable hate and abhorrence for his own people: it goes like this. Noam, together with his Hebrew scholar father, long ago were instrumental in establishing a very Left, sort of Communist-leaning kibbituz in what was then mandate Palestine. It was to a an utopic communist community of the sort envisioned by Lenin and Pol Pot. It didn't work out this way. This uptpic dream failed, presumably because certain Jewish values and influences polluted the communist dream of a freligion-free, capitalist -free utopia. This may account for his hate of Jews, Judaism and Israel--sour grapes to the Nth degree. Can any of the readers of YNET NEWS CONFIRM THIS?
28. chomsky's academic theories have been discredited
avi ,   usa   (05.18.06)
See Wall Street Journal article. Experimental results show that his linguistic theories were a bunch of bull. First, he deludes academics, but that is not enough, now the world. .
29. # 6 Ellen
yakov shani ,   Israel   (05.18.06)
You are without doubt the most midguided person on the planet.I do genuinely feel sorry for you, you know not what the future holds if radicalism, fundamentalism and religion take hold, you and England both will not last very long, in fact there simply will be no future.
30. # 6 14 16
yakov shani ,   Israel   (05.18.06)
Yes, he is a most respected academic, no he is not evil, he is deranged. This is not meant to be sarcastic or facetious. Yes, Israel must continue despite all the hurdles, the horse that stops or even hesitates at the hurdle has no chance of winning the race.
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