I am a Lebanese guy and I assure all of the Jews of the world that if Israel will do what this clever professor is saying, Israel will attract all the money and intellectuals of all Arab nations lead the New Middle East. The countries around Israel will have to follow this real advanced model. By doing the inverse, the feeling for Arab revenge is growing, especially after what we are seeing of massacres in Lebanon by the IDF. I am a Lebanese Druze guy living in Paris and very understanding of all political background of the Middle East region. What Israel is doing now is nothing more than creating new enemies that, at one day, sooner or later, will have to teach Israel a lesson with "unconventional" means = NUCLEAR threat (keep in mind how technology is rapidly growing!!). If Israel will remove all of the barriers, especially LAND OCCUPATION, nobody in the region will ever have any reason to say, Israel has NO right to exist, including Iran. Please note that, in Arab & Muslim culture, PRIDE is more important than LIFE itself. We, by nature, CANNOT live with humiliation like seen on the Palestinean territories. At the end, nothing but A JUST PEACE is the answer to all these problems. I hope some day, you really understand this fact and realize that there is NO other solution, neither war nor any other mean will bring stability to the middle east. This is a real sincere message to ISRAEL.

Now here is a classic anti-semite, wrapped in a classic anti-semite logic. Are some of your friends jewish, too?

..write better english. classcic, live their, hypocits, Surandon ? ..and they probably have the IQ to type in both upper and lower case too. So who is the moron and idiot now ( not much difference between those two by the way ) ? Funny how the quality of the prose always reflects the quality of the comment.

The problem with many intellectuals is that they have their heads so far up there asses that they lose the ability to see clearly. Noam would have a visitor from another planet, unfamiliar with the middle east, or world history, believe that there is an evil force (the Zionists) and good accomodating people who are always willing to make a deal (Iranians & Palestinians). This doesn't deserve a response or an attack. I would no sooner send Noam to the grocery store to buy a pound of American cheese than to give opinions about life and death.

In Chimsky's own words, the Lebanese government is complicit in Hezbollah's original attack. Sunni Prime Minister Fuad Siniora describes Hizbullah’s military wing as “resistance rather than as a militia, and thus exempt from” Resolution 1559. "A National Dialogue in June 2006 failed to resolve the problem. Its main purpose was to formulate a “national defense strategy” (vis-à-vis Israel), but it remained deadlocked over Hizbullah’s call for “a defense strategy that allowed the Islamic Resistance to keep its weapons as a deterrent to possible Israeli aggression,” in the absence of any credible alternative.

I cannot help but get the feeling that “Shimshon” reinactment is near, except this time it’s on a masive scale “the whole region”.

I am amazed that of all the critics in US; an American Jew has such a radical insight and perception.

This is what I call it Israel defeat. Israel must get prisoners out to get its soldiers back. Israel mush withdraw with no agreement what so ever, no county will dare to send troops to the zone without Hesballah agreement And if violated Lebanon’s territories Israel will get the Katusha`s on its cities again and again Israel have achieved the following United the Lebanese Earns more hatred around the World Isolated Arab countries that has relation with Israel United Shia, Suni and Arab Christians against Israel and USA More believe in armed resistance to Israeli occupation as the only way out Israel and US will not be able to do anything about Iran nuclear program Power has its own limits

In his book "Slowness", Milan Kundera introduces a concept of "danseur", i.e. a modern intellectual public figure who's driven by a fetish to remain in public view and therefore consciousness at whatever cost. He no longer really cares about insights or novel ideas - he's looking for a successful formula to remain media-relevant. A tragic figure, really. Noam Chomsky has found such formula: he gives intellectual ammunition to anti-Semites, and pisses off his fellow Jews. Such a beautiful tension with no resolution - it's almost like John Coltrane. A media-ready drama. His real-world equivalents would be people like Pat Buchanan, Jesse Jackson, Pat Robertson: all very skilled "danseurs"

Akram, I suggest that you carefully examine what is meant by the term "OCCUPATION" When Hamas, Hizbullah, Iran talk of OCCUPATION what they mean is THE ZIONIST ENTITY, which to all the less geographically-challenged people means THE STATE OF ISRAEL. When they talk about ENDING THE OCCUPATION they mean ENDING THE STATE OF ISRAEL. Unfortunately, many, like you, are content with parroting these cliches, without critically analysing what they actually mean. Furthermore, many are perfectly content with forming their opinions based on the vsceral response to the graphic images on TV. Finally it is the peak of arrogance and presumtion for you to "reassure all Jews" and teach Israelies of the virtues of peace. Who are you to reassure anyone? Will we ever see a genuine PRO-PEACE demonstration, one that does not shout "DEAT TO ISRAEL"?

you are an idiot and so blinde not to see FACTS that histroy will keep forever, so i advise you to come to Lebanon to see what you democracy is causing to us. I think this is also your duty as an American so keen for democracy in the ME to find out. just come to believe your democracy and if not so sure go to IRaq and see you bullshit that you exported to us and wonder why we had 9/11, why do they hate us ?!?!? and cry all the time ... you yankees are so dumb people and will be so forever.

Thank you very much for underlining what has been so clearly evident to the whole world but Israel is above the law and that's thanks to the US. peace upon all humanity,

from the first moment i stepped into a linguistics-related phillosophy class oh so many years ago, i suspected what any half intelliegent person knows to be a fact, and that is that the self-reverred mr. chomosky has raped the tools and procedures of linguistics to beyond usability. it is thanks to him that any possibility of dialogue between warring factions is impossible. for once the meaning of the word is subjective, the message can never be communicatable. but what does he care; he lives way over there. worse thing he can do is ride an underground on a bad day (soon, i hope).

I am astonished at the severity, vulgarity and racism of some of the comments made by Israelis. If it shows anything, it indicates the inability of those people to accept criticism or different points of view and if they are representative of the Israeli or Jewish population way of thinking then I see no prospect of peace in the middle east. It is sad, particularly when Jews are always presenting themselves as victims to see them act in such a fashion.

I don't know in which world you live, but as a computer scientest I can tell you, without chomsky and his theories there would be no modern programming languages and no software. And as to his political commitment: when he was active in the east timor issue, you never said a word about that, I suppose. Cause it was against those indonisian moslems anyway, right? But this time it affects israel. And Israel is holy, isn't it? Mate, I think this is exactly the problem. No moral, no belief and no ratio should justify treating Israel other than Indonesia, Iran, South Africa or any other country. cheers ...

... but I don't recall any president or prime minister of Israel saying that they wanted to wipe Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Lebanon, or any other Middle East country off the map. I don't recall reading about any Israeli suicide bombers going into the territories to blow up civilians at bus stops and restaurants. I don't recall mobs of Israelis demonstrating and burning Israeli and American flags and hanging Arab leaders in effigy before the TV cameras. I don't recall Arabs allowing members of other religions to worship on the Temple Mount. The list of inequities goes on and on, so stop this foolish attempt to say that the Islamic/Arab nations are rational nations. They are out to suppress and kill everything that isn't Islamic. Note that only a fool tries to pet a rabid dog. Well, fools and intellectuals.

THE ESSENCE OF HUMANITY ABSENT FROM CHOMS ARTICLE

Please list the numbers of specific posts from Israelies that contain the severe, vulgar and racist comments that you speak of. I just went through all the posts from Israelies (#'s 6, 7, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 43) and found no severity, vulgarity or racism. But you know, I am just a jew, can't trust people like us. Perhaps you might also educate all of us, severe, vulgar racists, of the ability of Hizbullah and Hamas to accept criticism or different points of view? You know, the epitomy of pluralism, like Iran and Saudi Arabia? If not, perhaps give an example of an open multi-ethnic, multi-denominational societiy with a moslem rule? A peace demo demading an end to suicide bombings and rocket attacks? A peace demo that does not chant "death to Israel"? Are you sure you REALLY know what you are talking about?

It is always fascinating to read the opinions of the left wing "intellectuals". To be an "intellectual" in America, you start with the proposition that the cause of all the world's problems comes from the United States. Then if you are Jewish, to show how unbiased you are, you blame Israel for all the problems in the Middle East. Then when your journey to fantasyland is complete, you will gain tenure at an Ivy League college, so you can teach distortions to the next generation of "intellectuals". Thank God, most Americans have much more common sense than the self-proclaimed "intellectuals".

Reading his views on Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Mao, Fidel, etc. makes me want to puke. How can he live with himself? He is self delusional. What a pity. In hindsight, maybe abortion would not be such a bad thing. What if human civilization could go back in time and selectivly abort certain fetus'? Just think, no caesars, hitlers, stalins, pol pots, uncle hos, noam chomsky's. What a wonderful world this could have been.

. . . AND, AFTER HIS HOUSE IS HIT, AND HIS SON INJURED IN ISRAEL'S DEFENSE, HE CAN PONTIFICATE AS HE LIKES BECAUSE HE WILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY IT. BUT, OF COURSE, HIS VIEWPOINT OUT OF THE IVORY TOWER WOULD BE CHANGED BY REALITY.

You are right that in this discussion he doesn't refer to the action being a reaction to the Israelis, probably because he's been burned by this before - parts of the Left have made this the excuse for the raid. However, if you keep reading what I wrote you'll see that my point relates to his assertion that they are civilians and therefore somehow this action of Israel grabbing them was a worse crime than the Shalit attack. They are terrorists who were apparently involved with the attack on Kerem Shalom. Isn't language everything when a linguist speaks? What is more egregious is his complaint about the "Western media" and its bias. What a joke. If the bias goes in any direction, it is without question against Israel.

you ask: "You know, the epitomy of pluralism, like Iran and Saudi Arabia? If not, perhaps give an example of an open multi-ethnic, multi-denominational societiy with a moslem rule? " with pleasure - Lebanon . the former Paris of the middle east. Its not a muslim but very mixed society installed more or less from the USA or with US approval - you dont like that obviosly - the only land in the whole area where people lived free and un-opressed - as Lebanon was also a upcoming competitor in class, lifestyle, production and tourism - it had to go. Israel is currently destroying the true gem & Paris of the East - Beirut & all Lebanon infrascruture beyond repair with the same akribic dedication & result "verbrannte Erde" then the Wehrmacht did on Russia. Including mangling of civilians on a mass scale. So far for Israels code of arms

# "There is no man as blind as he who refuses to see". Put the pot down and read the article carefully. Chomsky's argument is fully supported by a quick Google search. knowledge,Intellegence and Intellectualism is not heaped on the masses each has to search and find it. So stop braying and go learn.

As well as publishing this anti-Jewish drivel from this senile Jew, how about buying some articles from a sane and sensible Muslim, like Salim Mansur, who is at least well positioned to understand the enemy that Israel faces. Here are the final three paragraphs of his article "The lessons of history" over at the TorontoSun.com: >>The incapacity (or reluctance) of the Lebanese authorities to eliminate warlords within their borders has compelled Israel to punish Nasrallah and his thugs for their unforgiving provocations. >>Now, any effort by Western democracies to appease this unreal world of Arab politics -- for instance, by attempting to negotiate a diplomatic settlement -- will only prolong Lebanon's agony. >>All it will do, once again, is rescue another petty demagogue from the bloody consequences of his folly. ... Now, THIS IS THE KIND OF INFORMED FIGHTING WORDS THAT YOUR READERS NEED.. ... internet source: http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Mansur_Salim/2006/07/29/1708405.html

the "rational" & "peaceful" words of Arab trolls here? You are too transparent a manipulator - but maybe a "C" for effort.