Friday, May 4, 2007
Some months ago, Noam Chomsky was invited to speak at West Point. Two weeks ago, he spoke at Suffolk University here in Boston. Responding to a question about Hizballah [link to MEMRI report and Al Manar video of Chomsky's visit], here's what he said (as best as I can tell -- the audio is a bit scratchy):
Yeah, I met with uh...Hizballah in the 1980's was...a terrorist group...no doubt of it...later than that it's...hard to say they're not accused of anything [indecipherable - much?] in fact that since Israel withdrew from Lebanon, uh, there wasn't a single, in[?] 2000 there wasn't a single rocket or other attack attributed to Hizballah. They were fighting against Israeli occupation [indecipherable]...uh, but I've met with much worse terrorists than that...a couple of months ago I gave a talk at West Point.
...and the crowd went wild. Seriously.
Here is the audio. You can listen for yourself.
With many thanks to Hillel Stavis for the audio.
[Note: If you link this, please link the entry, not the audio directly. It probably won't work, and I'll be changing the format (and thus the url), later.]
But Reb Martin we all know that Noam is a Putz.
You'd be surprised how many people are not included in the word "all"!
Sol
Nothing surprises me anymore