A-Infos (en) Noam Chomsky Statement on Israel's War on Gaza - It is not a war, it is murder.

The following statement by Noam Chomsky indicates a different stand toward Israeli 
aggression than Prof. Chomsky has revealed in the past: ---- "The incursion and 
bombardment of Gaza is not about destroying Hamas. It is not about stopping rocket fire 
into Israel, it is not about achieving peace. ---- The Israeli decision to rain death and 
destruction on Gaza, to use lethal weapons of the modern battlefield on a largely 
defenseless civilian population, is the final phase in a decades-long campaign to 
ethnically-cleanse Palestinians. ---- Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval 
vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and 
slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy 
weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army… and 
calls it a war. It is not a war, it is murder.

“When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, 
they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier has to defend itself 
against the population they are crushing. You can't defend yourself when you're militarily 
occupying someone else's land. That's not defense. Call it what you like, it's not defense.”
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