Obama, the Middle East, and the Prospects for Peace

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  • In a lecture reaching far beyond the designated topic of Middle East peace prospects, Noam Chomsky is sharply critical of Israel, India, Pakistan, President Obama, and the U.S. - which he calls a "rogue nation" and "the Godfather." He accuses the U.S. of controlling Israel and undermining the two-state solution that would establish a Palestinian state.
    Hosted by School of Education and Axis of Hope on December 8, 2009.

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  • @mohammadzaidi8334
    @mohammadzaidi8334 5 місяців тому +6

    Professor Noam Chomsky, the REALLY TRUTHFUL, JUST, and GREAT GENIUS OF ALL TIMES is a great blessing from the ALMIGHTY GOD, all of his lectures and videos must be heard and watched by everyone in the World to learn the truth about the historical criminal actions of all evil powers against the oppressed common people of the world.

  • @bofootball30
    @bofootball30 Рік тому +27

    he has been speaking truth to power for 50 years

  • @maryannwhatuira5582
    @maryannwhatuira5582 4 роки тому +61

    Thank you Mr. Chomsky! I love listening to your talks, i have most of your books and even research your earliest works... I don’t mind rewatching your lectures! I’m but a mum from Western Australia who had a better understanding of the world through your teachings! I feel indebted to you for all the knowledge you tirelessly share....I pray for your safety, prosperity and amazing health...forthe world needs a brilliant light like you! Much RESPECT!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️

    • @iawarenow658
      @iawarenow658 3 роки тому +3

      if you are in Australia and aware of what is happening then why not write to your member of AustralianGOV and ask how is it that they keep supporting Genocide and the NKRI Islamist state..?

    • @bertharuiz1225
      @bertharuiz1225 2 роки тому +1

      I ditto same sentiments, Mrs. Whatuira.

    • @theacmemovement9677
      @theacmemovement9677 Рік тому

      Somehow Noam has lost his mind in his old age. Possibly the fear of the pandemic drove him to becoming a bootlicking propagandist for the establishment he has been holding accountable
      He is probably smart enough to use the fact he can do nothing and has joined them.probably money is his motivation.

  • @montgomerypowers7205
    @montgomerypowers7205 Рік тому +9

    Guy in audience asks "the public was disappointed and we got Reagan, what are we going to get this time?" Oof.

  • @Baiyu83
    @Baiyu83 4 роки тому +58

    The question at 1:00:00 became prophetic :).

    • @WhenTheSunLordsFell
      @WhenTheSunLordsFell 3 роки тому +3

      imma cry now

    • @ricardo9976
      @ricardo9976 3 роки тому +1

      Well said by Chomsky

    • @richmonmccullough4116
      @richmonmccullough4116 3 роки тому +5

      Yep and it’s very unfortunate I really do hate this country but like Howard zinn says if I move I don’t wanna be a victim of American foreign policy

    • @josephyoung6749
      @josephyoung6749 3 роки тому +2

      I was going to say the same. And I think many in the US feel we are again repeating this trend.

    • @pipster1891
      @pipster1891 2 роки тому +2

      He correctly, though obviously, predicted that people would become disappointed with Obama but nobody in their wildest nightmares thought Donald Trump.

  • @thomasscottpersing9641
    @thomasscottpersing9641 4 роки тому +40

    Dr. Chomsky is the greatest intellectual of the 20th and 21st Centuries.

    • @solidaritytime3650
      @solidaritytime3650 2 роки тому +2

      Hopefully not the 21st.

    • @haidenmorgan
      @haidenmorgan 2 роки тому +1

      He's great but that's a real tall order. I'm hoping for a sage who is an internet power user/biohacking learner who takes academia to a level we haven't seen yet because the tools weren't available.

    • @laynekay2271
      @laynekay2271 Рік тому +1

      so why does he say such bad things about things about US foreign policy??

    • @fabiengerard8142
      @fabiengerard8142 6 місяців тому

      Fully agree with you about the 20th and 21st centuries, but what about the whole previous period between our times and the times of Socrates, Plato, and Aristoteles then?!?

    • @andrewkessler895
      @andrewkessler895 5 місяців тому

      @@laynekay2271 I think you may be the first person to finish the quote! Dr. Chomsky would be proud.

  • @Autonomy0
    @Autonomy0 10 місяців тому +4

    Anyone in any doubt that Chomsky is the greatest living mind on public affairs need only check his response to the question about disappointed expectations around Obama (about 1:03). Not sure exactly when this was filmed (guessing early/mid Obama first term so 2010/11) BUT HIS RESPONSE PREFIGURES THE TRUMP PHENOMENON:- something which no one even saw coming when it actually happened 5/6 years later! EERIE! The more exposure I have to this man, the more AWED I am by his mind. Listening to him (especially the way he looks now at 94, with the beard) gives the truest insight of what it must have been like to for a believer to be in the presence of one of those Old Testament prophets. I will know a new depth of existential sadness when he passes...

    • @maureenmannion6748
      @maureenmannion6748 5 місяців тому

      I was amazed at Noam's accurate prediction of the backlash to the con job perpetrated on Americans by the Obama campaign: The rise of Trump! That's quite a legacy for Obama.

  • @dextercube1822
    @dextercube1822 3 роки тому +35

    This guy has guts.

    • @dreamneverdies
      @dreamneverdies Рік тому +2

      Don't jinx him, the CIA might clean up and down.

    • @mtomiuk8133
      @mtomiuk8133 Рік тому

      Not really! He's a limo-communist

  • @solidaritytime3650
    @solidaritytime3650 2 роки тому +14

    One of my favorite Chomsky q&a's

  • @7Z-t
    @7Z-t 5 років тому +52

    noam starts at 06:30

  • @bobsagit2683
    @bobsagit2683 9 місяців тому +6

    I hope he gets to stay alive for a real effort towards democratic societies .. i hope he gets to feel like he made an impact .. he did make an impact on my life . Thats for sure but like he says its not up to 1 man to solve this thing its up to every last one of us to bring better democracy not corruption lies abuse enforcement punishment condemnation and tyranny .

  • @claumonas
    @claumonas 4 роки тому +18

    He speaks always so clearly!

  • @jacobzaranyika9334
    @jacobzaranyika9334 Рік тому +1

    Thank you🙏
    I will watch this in full later

  • @dradia1983
    @dradia1983 Рік тому +3

    VOICE OF TRUTH.. MAY GOD BLESS YOU

  • @kalswanson2254
    @kalswanson2254 4 роки тому +14

    Oh how prescient you are Noam, God bless you, you national treasure!!!

  • @lizgichora6472
    @lizgichora6472 7 років тому +9

    Thank you very much!

  • @SalimMaroun-fb5rd
    @SalimMaroun-fb5rd 20 днів тому

    ❤❤❤❤Thank you for answering a lot of my questions even if I’m not there

  • @sentenialxmen3227
    @sentenialxmen3227 5 років тому +15

    Bravo Professor. Thank you for the good lecture.

  • @kiwitrainguy
    @kiwitrainguy 3 роки тому +8

    A more succinct answer to the last question would be: "One person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter".

  • @vikramtheone
    @vikramtheone 14 років тому +28

    Thank you so much for this upload :) Love this man, I wish I was his student

  • @armchairradical2665
    @armchairradical2665 3 роки тому +1

    Does anyone know where he finds thes reports?

  • @eisenyeo
    @eisenyeo Рік тому +3

    Noam is the Man!

    • @fabiengerard8142
      @fabiengerard8142 6 місяців тому

      …. One of the very, very few true Homo SAPIENS.

  • @evanokeroa4877
    @evanokeroa4877 Рік тому

    Live by what you know is right and don't take a back step

  • @evanokeroa8690
    @evanokeroa8690 4 роки тому +4

    Like a son needs fathers direction and guidance

  • @evanokeroa8690
    @evanokeroa8690 4 роки тому +1

    Sovereign lords intention in the first place

  • @ndlkdan6213
    @ndlkdan6213 3 роки тому +4

    one of the man on earth that speaks how it is. thank you

  • @evanokeroa8690
    @evanokeroa8690 4 роки тому

    Can you see

  • @markherron9512
    @markherron9512 4 роки тому +3

    Just in time we just killed the top General in Iran..
    Jan 2020....this man is a professor.

  • @babasietaovo7896
    @babasietaovo7896 Рік тому +1

    This was not 12 years ago. Maybe 5 I think

  • @md.muzahidulislamsamrat8037
    @md.muzahidulislamsamrat8037 Рік тому +2

    How could one have a discussion evaluating Apartheid within green line and not mention the Nation- State Law?
    Or the implications of getting married to a non- citizen for a Palestinian vs a Jew?
    Or even the fact that Palestinians don’t qualify for state-sanctioned housing in the form of Israeli colonies, though are forced to pay for them?
    Or that Israel’s laws are, by design, geared to push Palestinians gradually to emigrate, and therefore to eventually fall under more brazen categories of Apartheid, a treatment reserved for Palestinians alone?
    And I have no problem in saying I do not understand the relevance of Klug’s suggestion that if we label Israel as guilty of atrocities, we must label neighboring regimes as guilty of those same atrocities. As if that offers any justification for subsidizing and supporting a system of injustice against Palestinians.

  • @helenlauer9545
    @helenlauer9545 4 роки тому +22

    I don't understand why Chomsky has not yet received a Nobel Laureate Prize

    • @martinjanecek4950
      @martinjanecek4950 2 роки тому +5

      bacause you didnt pay attention to his lectures.

    • @jennyhirschowitz1999
      @jennyhirschowitz1999 Рік тому +2

      US would block it and besides, I dont think he would accept it.

    • @dreamneverdies
      @dreamneverdies Рік тому

      One of his peers said about a government power elite atrocity "against the public's will" while shaking his head "no." I've seen that way around censorship many times. That may have something to do with it, the people will this shit, and their big death machine. So who is he speaking to? Who will help? Not Americans I guess, they ask for mass murder globally because by magical thinking bombing strangers keeps you safe said Bernie Sanders. I guess there is a machine that doesn't love people but loves giving and helping things in outrageous ways like child sexual assault and feels beautiful therefore is cancer. The superior species of animals that don't rape their children need help, we can start by rescuing them from the meat industry.

    • @MxMicah1038
      @MxMicah1038 Рік тому +1

      He’s way too good for it.

    • @dannymcguire3623
      @dannymcguire3623 Рік тому +1

      Hahaha…ripped the words right out of my consciousness. Well said.

  • @evanokeroa8690
    @evanokeroa8690 4 роки тому +1

    Fulfill the consequences -to the end

    • @solidaritytime3650
      @solidaritytime3650 2 роки тому

      Would it not be better to halt the machine and save the lives which would be lost in its explosion?

  • @lupemerrit
    @lupemerrit 6 місяців тому +1

    I want to listen to Chomsky. Introductions are too long.

  • @shirleychen7412
    @shirleychen7412 Рік тому +2

    Sorry I am hysterically laughing.

    • @butbutmybutt
      @butbutmybutt Рік тому

      No, we r laughing my sheep. Keep sleeping

  • @markmajkowski9545
    @markmajkowski9545 4 роки тому +4

    24:40 “Iran” the ruling clerics of the country they pretty much own. Isn’t there something fundamentally amiss when the political hierarchy “own” a country??

    • @TheTyme99
      @TheTyme99 3 роки тому +3

      A small number of people pretty much own the United States as well

    • @sunshinepatsoph4219
      @sunshinepatsoph4219 3 роки тому

      Theocracies are a bad thing

  • @zohraboureni6049
    @zohraboureni6049 Рік тому

    What a man

  • @patmax9005
    @patmax9005 2 роки тому

    BUILDING 7🏢?

  • @worldpeacepatriot9448
    @worldpeacepatriot9448 Рік тому +2

    Methinks , there is much truth to what he says !

  • @trenaoelschlager3981
    @trenaoelschlager3981 Рік тому +1

    Nobel prizes are strictly political!

  • @MThyne-oz2zu
    @MThyne-oz2zu 4 роки тому +5

    Ol' Noam sure loves Iran.

  • @dewok2706
    @dewok2706 Рік тому +1

    Good guy, this one.

  • @SanvelloSerapiega
    @SanvelloSerapiega 6 років тому +5

    Since yall like old dudes talking about war crimes 6:15

  • @Batheify
    @Batheify 2 роки тому +1

    Lo-e that dude ! TY

  • @cannibalholocaust3015
    @cannibalholocaust3015 Рік тому +1

    Chomsky one of the worst system agents or THE worst?

  • @ash7604yaman
    @ash7604yaman Рік тому

    Britain is a majority protestant which was from Germany Lutheran church they were missionaries coming from Germany and it created the protestant religion and that mission was carried throught the world which causes conflict between Catholics and protestants throughout the world ,there are many different groups of muslims and conflicts are a result in UK its Hindus, Sikhs,muslims conflicts ,now people of Pakistan and other similar groups the extremist groups are causing unrest in cities of Britain and giving rise to groups like
    Edl,national front, racists and it's just causing security and worries specially our children are in dangerous situations ANd the corruption is a way of life and no one gives a monkeys so better to have gurkha soldiers guard Britain and Europe.
    AGAINST terrorism and corruption there should an independent body to bring about justice equality and peace

  • @KAIFF__GAMING786
    @KAIFF__GAMING786 Рік тому

    The concept of one World is not clear than the concept of ONE EARTH FOR ALL THE CITIZENS OF THIS WORLD .SORRY IF I AM IN THIS dilemma.

  • @AndyMak-jq1py
    @AndyMak-jq1py 3 роки тому

    Chomsky is a genius in linguistics but a raving lunatic in world affairs. 52:39. Chomsky declared that the American conducted “massive war on terrorism that killed millions of Africans.” Chomsky’s claim is so ridiculous that Osama Ben Laden would not have made.

  • @samcoupe4608
    @samcoupe4608 2 роки тому

    nuclear tipped torpedo not as useful as trident

  • @evanokeroa8690
    @evanokeroa8690 4 роки тому

    In hebrews chpt 4

  • @ralphmalph6824
    @ralphmalph6824 3 роки тому +1

    Pkay thank you...Now go away and do not keep showing up in my queue

  • @larrysmith2636
    @larrysmith2636 3 роки тому +2

    Politician/marketplace speak 101, hope and change - dope and chains.

  • @robertcaraher536
    @robertcaraher536 4 роки тому +1

    Chomsky is to smart not to know about the department of public affairs which is the utility that the news media is plugged into the department of justice with. The professor knows more about it than most in justice you can bet your balls on that.

  • @billk122
    @billk122 Рік тому

    Acktor

  • @donnyboy891fred6
    @donnyboy891fred6 4 роки тому +2

    NOTHING NEW" HERE THEN.

  • @evanokeroa8690
    @evanokeroa8690 4 роки тому

    The word of JEHOVAH is alive

  • @vidamace6230
    @vidamace6230 3 роки тому +3

    We now more than ever before urgency need people like Noam to stand up to what we know is wrong. As it is written resist not evil.

  • @ricardo9976
    @ricardo9976 3 роки тому +4

    Chomsky is " right on the money" as the saing goes!

  • @h.e.5987
    @h.e.5987 2 роки тому +5

    Why is he being sympathetic to the criminal regime of Mullahs in Iran?
    I wonder if he gets paid by the Mullahs?
    I’m disappointed in Chomsky who has not seen Iran’s expansionism ambitions, wanting to export its Jihad version to the rest of the region.

  • @lsophial
    @lsophial 2 роки тому +1

    His tie is sickening! Who is guiding DRESSING TO THIS POOR MAN?

    • @kathleenadams6421
      @kathleenadams6421 Рік тому

      You mean the educator, the school teacher, yes I want to take a pair of scissors and cut it off myself. But then I remember this is about 12 years ago.🤣

  • @j.walker3498
    @j.walker3498 3 роки тому +2

    biggo pile!

  • @jpbdexv
    @jpbdexv 3 роки тому +2

    Impeccable Source = Amnesty International? Good one, Noam! How can one linguist talk about anything that pops into his mind and so many people listens! He just talks and talks and talks ...... and says nothing.

    • @pietroaretino6390
      @pietroaretino6390 3 роки тому +5

      Well that's just not true. Just because you disagree with one point made by someone does not mean everything else they say is meaningless, or also disagreeable.

    • @sunshinepatsoph4219
      @sunshinepatsoph4219 3 роки тому

      He is a Jewish who hates his own kind and his country.

    • @houseofballoons4788
      @houseofballoons4788 3 роки тому

      @@sunshinepatsoph4219 he hates fascist Israelis.

  • @speedysteve9121
    @speedysteve9121 3 роки тому

    Why does YT keep diverting me to this pinko?

    • @designerama1099
      @designerama1099 3 роки тому

      Wow, sympathy leads to communism. I love your closed minded mentality.

    • @StoveToTheFace
      @StoveToTheFace 3 роки тому

      Probably trying to educate you.

    • @johnsallie3181
      @johnsallie3181 Рік тому

      the psychopaths are making pinkos look good

  • @bartversteege6270
    @bartversteege6270 6 років тому +3

    now you undestand trump voters

  • @simonrosas7937
    @simonrosas7937 2 роки тому +3

    This guy puts me to sleep. Something about his voice and smugness and matter of fact kind of approach..its easy to say this was obvious and that was clear so why did they do it.... It's easy to ridicule after the fact but it's not so clear while events are unfolding in real time and decisions have to be made quickly no matter how informed a president is.... His view just doesn't fit the real world..

    • @bobdecarlo7778
      @bobdecarlo7778 Рік тому

      Thank you.

    • @kathleenadams6421
      @kathleenadams6421 Рік тому

      His analysis is honest and reality based. Get back to studying what is going on in the world and use independent search engines, if history books are not available to you. If you only have time for a video, look at Pulitzer Prize winner Oliver Stones’s documentary, “The Untold History of the United States“.This is happening again, the United States has been funding the 4 N_ZI groups in Ukraine for 8 years. The longer they (the US) can keep this war going, by attacking people in the Donbas, and please know that the Russians have been showing the remnants of the American shells and missiles to the UN for that entire time, and the more money the West can funnel to the Elite Weapons manufacturers, and also drive the prices on oil way up in the west. Oil is King that is why we do not have clean energy. I have made my retirement possible by watching the signals of where the next war will start. The last president who told anything truthful was Eisenhower, I heard his departure speech before Kennedy came in. And even he could not oppose them or he would have died in office. Please learn, so your children and their children don’t live through the same thing.

    • @borbalbuddy
      @borbalbuddy Рік тому +1

      Nothing he's criticized could be excused away with, "decisions have to be made quickly." Everything mentioned was planned over a fairly long time and done with motivations that were concealed from the public. Most of what he talks about has been extensively documented.

  • @mck1972
    @mck1972 5 років тому +4

    Because who better to judge these important topics, than a Linguistics Professor, with ZERO Real World Experience himself in Government, Foreign Policy, or Diplomacy, and whose criticisms of others all have the great luxury of 20/20 Hindsight-Right???
    UGH-It is a tragedy that anybody actually takes this ridiculous old man seriously! SMH.

    • @user-rn3bb3dj4p
      @user-rn3bb3dj4p 4 роки тому

      🇮🇱🦟🇮🇱🦟swat swat

    • @mck1972
      @mck1972 4 роки тому

      @@user-rn3bb3dj4p ,
      ????

    • @mohamedboualil9632
      @mohamedboualil9632 4 роки тому +7

      @@mck1972 Btw being old is not a bad thing lol, getting old is not a choice.
      And you don't need experience in Government, Foreign Policy, etc to talk about these topics, proof Trump is now the president of the USA with Zero experience ;)

    • @adrienpartier7207
      @adrienpartier7207 4 роки тому

      @@mohamedboualil9632 note that the fact that Trump is president of the US does not necessarily give him more credibility on these matters. I concur with you however that having a degree in one discipline does not logically exclude having valuable insights into another discipline.

    • @skindianu
      @skindianu 3 роки тому +2

      Yeah, right. I guess all of those who have experience in these matters have done all of us all kinds of justice. That's the problem with world governments; they're run by politicians