{"id":13360,"date":"2010-04-29T10:27:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T16:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13360"},"modified":"2010-04-29T10:27:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T16:27:26","slug":"tomgram-noam-chomsky-eyeless-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13360","title":{"rendered":"Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, Eyeless in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/authors\/tom\/\">Tom Engelhardt<\/a><br \/>\n27 April 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Note for TomDispatch Readers:<\/strong> <em>I\u2019m  away on vacation this week and largely off the grid, so don\u2019t expect  answers to emails or requests until the first week of May.\u00a0 In the  meantime, here\u2019s an excerpt adapted &#8212; with a new TomDispatch beginning by the author &#8212; from Noam Chomsky\u2019s latest work, his must-read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1931859965\/ref=nosim\/?tag=tomdispatch-20\" target=\"_blank\">Hopes  and Prospects<\/a>, which can be preordered today, even as it wings its  way toward local bookstores and Amazon.\u00a0 The book is a deep dive into  the bone-chilling waters of the first years of the twenty-first century,  including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.\u00a0 In such phenomena as the  democratic wave that has swept Latin America, however, Chomsky does see  hope for our collective future &#8212; and even on the subject of Gaza and  the Palestinians, he sees possibilities, long blocked unfortunately by  Washington and Tel Aviv.\u00a0 He is, as always, a man to contend with. \u00a0And  be sure to check out Timothy MacBain\u2019s latest TomCast audio interview in  which Chomsky discusses the prospect of an Israeli attack on Iran, the  feasibility of an Israel-Palestine two-state solution, and the concept  of international law,\u00a0by clicking\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tomdispatch.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/noam-chomsky-speaks-with-timothy.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or, if you prefer to download it to your  iPod,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/tomcast-from-tomdispatch-com\/id357095817\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Tom<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Middle East Peace That  Could Happen (But Won\u2019t)<br \/>\nIn  Washington-Speak, \u201cPalestinian State\u201d Means \u201cFried Chicken\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nBy\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/authors\/noamchomsky\" target=\"_blank\">Noam Chomsky<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fact that the Israel-Palestine conflict grinds on without  resolution might appear to be rather strange.\u00a0 For many of the world\u2019s  conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.\u00a0 In  this case, it is not only possible, but there is near universal  agreement on its basic contours: a two-state settlement along the  internationally recognized (pre-June 1967) borders &#8212; with \u201cminor and  mutual modifications,\u201d to adopt official U.S. terminology before  Washington departed from the international community in the mid-1970s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/175239\/tomgram:_noam_chomsky,_eyeless_in_gaza___\/#more\">Continue reading<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Engelhardt 27 April 2010 [Note for TomDispatch Readers: I\u2019m away on vacation this week and largely off the grid, so don\u2019t expect answers to emails or requests until the first week of May.\u00a0 In the meantime, here\u2019s an excerpt &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13360\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3tu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13360"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13367,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13360\/revisions\/13367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}