{"id":8703,"date":"2009-06-04T14:21:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T19:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8703"},"modified":"2009-06-04T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T19:29:08","slug":"ipa-chomsky-on-obama-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8703","title":{"rendered":"IPA: Chomsky on Obama Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Institute for Public Accuracy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/accuracy.org\/newsrelease.php?articleId=2005\">4 June 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chomsky, whose recent books include Interventions and The Essential Chomsky, sent the following to the Institute for Public Accuracy this morning:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A CNN headline, reporting Obama&#8217;s plans for his June 4 Cairo address, reads &#8216;Obama looks to reach the soul of the Muslim world.&#8217; Perhaps that captures his intent, but more significant is the content hidden in the rhetorical stance, or more accurately, omitted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Keeping just to Israel-Palestine &#8212; there was nothing substantive about anything else &#8212; Obama called on Arabs and Israelis not to &#8216;point fingers&#8217; at each other or to &#8216;see this conflict only from one side or the other.&#8217; There is, however, a third side, that of the United States, which has played a decisive role in sustaining the current conflict. Obama gave no indication that its role should change or even be considered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those familiar with the history will rationally conclude, then, that Obama will continue in the path of unilateral U.S. rejectionism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/accuracy.org\/newsrelease.php?articleId=2005\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Related<\/em>:<br \/>\n<strong>IPA: <a href=\"http:\/\/accuracy.org\/newsrelease.php?articleId=2007\">Responses to Obama&#8217;s Cairo Speech<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Institute for Public Accuracy 4 June 2009 Chomsky, whose recent books include Interventions and The Essential Chomsky, sent the following to the Institute for Public Accuracy this morning: &#8220;A CNN headline, reporting Obama&#8217;s plans for his June 4 Cairo address, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8703\">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-8703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2gn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703","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=8703"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8707,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703\/revisions\/8707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}