Chomsky's Kishinev/Lebanon Analogy
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.> After a brief pause imposed by Washington, Israel resumed the assault, which ended with an Israeli-supervised slaughter that was eerily reminiscent of the famous Kishinev massacre, one of the most horrific crimes in pre-Holocaust Jewish history and one of the events that propelled a flood of Jewish émigrés from Eastern Europe. It was memorialized in a famous poem by Israel’s national poet Chaim Nahman Bialek, “In the City of Slaughter.” As discussed below, the analogy is painfully close, except that the number of victims was vastly greater in Israel’s reenactment of the Czar’s atrocities.
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.> “In the evening looting gave way to killing. The murderers, armed with clubs and knives, assailed the Jews in the cars, on the streets, and in the houses, wounding them severely, sometimes even fatally. Even then, the police and military remained inactive; only when in one place a group of Jews, armed with sticks, attempted to drive off the murderers, the police stepped in at once and disarmed the defenders....
.> This book was written—or perhaps more accurately burst forth—in the immediate aftermath of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, a vicious act of aggression that killed tens of thousands of people, destroyed much of southern Lebanon, and finally demolished much of the capital city of Beirut....
.> The war had pretexts—all acts of aggression do. Formally, it was “Operation Peace for Galilee,” but that was utter farce. The pretexts were so thin that they could only be echoed by true loyalists, as they were and still are. In reality, it was evident at once, and conceded, that the goal of the invasion was political: to remove impediments to Israel’s criminal settlement and development programs in the occupied territories (a goal that succeeded) and to impose a client Maronite regime in Lebanon (which failed). Like other Israeli crimes, this act of aggression relied on the decisive support of the United States
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https://archive.org/details/fatefultriangleu0000chom_j7d0/page/n7/mode/2up#
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