Dear all; Ada banyak tokoh di luar main stream politics di AS yang memang menyuarakan pandangan-pandangan kritis terhadap politik luar negeri AS selama ini, termasuk yang tergolong keturunan Yahudi sekali pun (seperti Noam Chomski), mereka semua tidak takut mengeritik politik pemerintah Israel dan juga loby Yahudi-nya di DC. Mereka ini antara lain adalah yang biasa menyuarakan pandangan mereka lewat "Z Magazine."
Majalah kelompok luaran itu menurut saya adalah yang terpenting di AS. Mereka ini juga punya situs serius "http://www.zmag.org/."; Dan di bawah ini saya cuplikkan bagian awal wawancara yang dilakukan "Democracy Now" dengan Noam Chomski. Dari bagian awal ini saja sudah tampak adanya fakta/berita yang disembunyikan (oleh media main-stream AS) yang dilakukan Israel terhadap dua orang tokoh Palestina di Gaza justeru sebelum Hamas melakukans serangan dan menangkap seorang tentara Israel yang dijadikan alasan pemboman atas Gaza terakhir ini. Ikra.- ====== from http://www.zmag.org/ ZNet | Israel/Palestine ISRAEL/PALESTINA by Noam Chomsky and Amy Goodman; Democracy Now; July 15, 2006 AMY GOODMAN: We're joined on the phone right now by Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of dozens of books. His latest is Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy. In May, he traveled to Beirut, where he met, among others, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. He joins us on the phone from Masachusetts. We welcome you to Democracy Now! NOAM CHOMSKY: Hi, Amy. AMY GOODMAN: It's good to have you with us. Well, can you talk about what is happening now, both in Lebanon and Gaza? NOAM CHOMSKY: Well, of course, I have no inside information, other than what's available to you and listeners. What's happening in Gaza, to start with that -- well, basically the current stage of what's going on -- there's a lot more -- begins with the Hamas election, back the end of January. Israel and the United States at once announced that they were going to punish the people of Palestine for voting the wrong way in a free election. And the punishment has been severe. At the same time, it's partly in Gaza, and sort of hidden in a way, but even more extreme in the West Bank, where Olmert announced his annexation program, what's euphemistically called "convergence" and described here often as a "withdrawal," but in fact it's a formalization of the program of annexing the valuable lands, most of the resources, including water, of the West Bank and cantonizing the rest and imprisoning it, since he also announced that Israel would take over the Jordan Valley. Well, that proceeds without extreme violence or nothing much said about it. Gaza, itself, the latest phase, began on June 24. It was when Israel abducted two Gaza civilians, a doctor and his brother. We don't know their names. You don't know the names of victims. They were taken to Israel, presumably, and nobody knows their fate. The next day, something happened, which we do know about, a lot. Militants in Gaza, probably Islamic Jihad, abducted an Israeli soldier across the border. That's Corporal Gilad Shalit. And that's well known; the first abduction is not. Then followed the escalation of Israeli attacks on Gaza, which I don't have to repeat. It's reported on adequately. The next stage was Hezbollah's abduction of two Israeli soldiers, they say on the border. Their official reason for this is that they are aiming for prisoner release. There are a few, nobody knows how many. Officially, there are three Lebanese prisoners in Israel. There's allegedly a couple hundred people missing. Who knows where they are? But the real reason, I think it's generally agreed by analysts, is that -- I'll read from the Financial Times, which happens to be right in front of me. "The timing and scale of its attack suggest it was partly intended to reduce the pressure on Palestinians by forcing Israel to fight on two fronts simultaneously." David Hirst, who knows this area well, describes it, I think this morning, as a display of solidarity with suffering people, the clinching impulse. It's a very -- mind you -- very irresponsible act. It subjects Lebanese to possible -- certainly to plenty of terror and possible extreme disaster. Whether it can achieve any result, either in the secondary question of freeing prisoners or the primary question of some form of solidarity with the people of Gaza, I hope so, but I wouldn't rank the probabilities very high. selanjutnya baca kelanjutan wawancara ini di: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm? SectionID=107&ItemID=10577 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! 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