The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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