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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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