Chomsky: Palestinians shouldn't place hope on Barack Obama (1)

Professor Noam Chomsky, an American Jew, advised us not to place hope on Barack Obama's call to end the blockade of Gaza. Chomsky wrote:

Those are nice words. And if he did it, that would be fine. But there isn’t any indication that he means it … in fact, according to reports I just received from Israel—I can’t give you a source—they say that the radio news this morning has been reporting steadily that Amos Gilad, who’s the go-between between Israel and Egypt, notified the Egyptians that Israel is not interested in a ceasefire agreement, but rather an arrangement to stop the missiles and to free Gilad Shalit.

OK, I presume that will be in the newspapers later. So, yes, it’s nice to say, “Let’s open the borders,” but not avoiding the conditions that are imposed, in fact, not even mentioning the fact that the borders have been closed for years because the United States has backed Israeli closure of them.

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