University Protests against the Israeli Incursion into Palestine

[Leonardo17]

I came upon two very interesting Noam Chomsky Videos yesterday that I think might give us some insight on this seemingly endless conflict happening in the middle-East. I personally like to take most of Mr. Chomsky’s words with a grain of salt because on the inside, he is still a far-left individual who belongs more to the 60’s and 70’s than the present era (in terms of energy and ideological convictions).





 
03:40 – 04:00 part is very interesting. Noam Chomsky is saying “Israel provided a major service to the united states by destroying secular Arab Nationalism (a major enemy of the United States” and supporting Radical Islam (Translation by me: Political Islam) which the US supported and continues right until the present).
 
+ Mr. Chomsky is very critical of the US invasion of Vietnam, Iraq (and also Afghanistan).
 
This is what I call “The Works of the Weapon’s industry lobby”. Sadhguru says that once you start building massive numbers of weapons, it is foolish to think that these will hopefully never be used. I am convinced of the fact that after a given limit, supply is creating demand more than the opposite.

I also found this video that is a shorter version of the previous video:





 
 I like the ideas in this video because as a historian of some sort, my first knowledge about a Jewish State in Palestine goes back to the time of King Herod in the 1st century AD. And the cause of the exodus of Jew from Judea was that they were forced to leave by the Emperor Trajan who invaded the whole area and renamed it a Palestine after a revolt in the beginning of the second century AD.

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Here is a relief from Arch of Titus in Rome:



(Roman Soldiers here are returning from Judea carrying a Menorah + other objects from the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem).

 

I don’t know about if there was a Jewish state in Israel / Palestine / Judea / whatever before that. I’m almost sure there wasn’t anything like that in the Bronze Age because this was an area that was contested between the Hittites and the Egyptians with many principalities vowing allegiance to one side or the other.

 
So the issue is more complicated that the claims of ultra-orthodox Jews that’s for sure

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I think that both of the videos here are pointing to the fact that a better approach that is based on more rational and more constructive ideas is clearly needed here. I’ll leave the more philosophical aspects to Mr. Chomsky (he has other videos on the issue if you are interested) but on a more practical level, they may be headed toward a problem without a solution.
 
My greater concern is: If you bury secular Arab Nationalism and hand over an entire region to Radical Islam (that I prefer to describe as “political Islam”) then what happens with an increasingly ultra-orthodox Jewish state which happens to be located in that very same area?
 
/ I think everyone needs to start thinking about what it is they are trying to do here, don’t you agree?

This video of Arnie somehow appeared right after I wrote the stuff above. People were naïve to think everything was over in May 8th 1945 when Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies. Jean Paul Sartre warned us that “The germs of the black death had not simply vanished but that they were waiting, hidden in some dark places to resurface again when the time would come.

 
So Arnie has some interesting ideas on that and I think it’s worth watching: