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Noam Chomsky

2007-05-24T20:33:03Z

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[[Image:Chomsky3.gif|right|thumb|130px]]
'''Noam Chomsky''' (born December 7, 1928) is a linguist who is best known for his writings on politics. He is an institute professor & professor of linguistics (Emeritus) at the [[MIT|Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) <ref>http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/chomsky/index.html</ref>.
He has always been very critical of [[America]]n and [[Israel]]i foreign policy and sympathizes with [[Palestine|Palestinians]] and is alleged to have shown support for [[Hezbollah]]<ref>http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=11&x_article=1151</ref>, which is considered by the United States to be a terrorist organization.

His opponents accuse him of expressing admiration for governmental systems such as the Chinese and Cambodian governments, which are characterized by central control, xenophobia and rejection of free expression. Chomsky counters that he is merely pointing out the West's own crimes and not condoning authoritarian governments that the West opposes. Chomsky identifies himself as a libertarian socialist who is opposed to both neoliberalism and authoritarianism. <ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19446</ref>

==List of Terrorist Atrocities committed by the West According to Chomsky==
#The overthrow of democratic and secular leader Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and replacement with the Shah, a brutal dictator in 1953 (Done by the US and the UK)
#The overthrow of social democrat Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954
#The overthrow of democratic socialist Salvador Allende in Chile on 9/11 in 1973
#The Dirty War against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua in the 1980s
#The backing of a brutal military dictatorship in El Salvador during the same time period
#Selling weapons to a terror-state ([[Iran]]) to fund another terrorist group (The Contras). (See [[Iran-Contra Affair]])
#Selling weapons of mass destruction to Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war.
#Supporting the mujahideen which later became al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan in the 1980s
#Invading Iraq in 2003 against the ruling of the UN
#Blatant Support of Israel which Chomsky believes is a terror state despite his Jewish ethnicity
(Source: Hegemony or Survival)

However, it should be noted that Chomsky's books are riddled with factual inaccuracies <ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/100chomskylies.pdf</ref>. Despite this, all of the above are documented historical events.

==Linguistic Works==
===Generative Grammar===
Noam Chomsky advocates the view that the human brain has innate ability to generate gramatical sentences, thus all utterances which is deemed sensical to the speaker is necessarily grammatical, and the only role the liguist should play is to decipher its grammatical structure. This view has been criticized by many linguists as [[nihilism|nihilistic]] in that it rejects the notion of ungrammatical sentences. Noam Chomsky also pointed to instances of infants utter grammatical sentence fragments they have not been taught before as evidence for Generative Grammar.

===Universal Grammar===
Noam Chomsky also proposed the theory that a kind of universal grammar, a grammar that underlies all human languages, is hard-wired in the human brain. Thus all human languages are fundamentally the same, with only superficial differences. This theory of universal grammar has been criticized by linguist Geoffrey Sampson as being not falsifiable, arguing that the grammatical generalizations made are simply observations about existing languages and not predictions about what is possible in a language. To this day, the search for such universal grammar has been fruitless.

For decades, Noam Chomsky and his followers have been trying to make sense of sentences such as:
<blockquote>
''Who will be easy for us to get his mother to talk to?''
</blockquote>
which are deemed to be ungrammatical by a lot of linguists; by using techniques such as linking theory, anti-c-command requirement, A-positions, Bijection Principle, weakest crossover configurations, bound variable anaphora, asymmetric linking, licensing conditions, index of apronoun, null operator analysis, variable binding, configurational conditions, inappropriate and appropriate antecedents, etc.

== See Also ==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk8pxyAWTBk Chomsky Speaks about American Politics] Chomsky believes the Democrats and Republicans are a single entity
*[http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1136# Video of Noam Chomsky with Hezbollah Leaders in Lebanon]
*[http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomskyhoax.html The Chomsky Hoax] by Paul Bogdanor
*[http://www.grsampson.net/AGwg.html Grammar Without Grammaticality] by Geoffrey Sampson
*[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23543 Chomsky's New Blood Libel] by Alan Dershowitz
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXMZZCvFtlw Chomsky on Middle East Television] Chomsky speaks about American Imperialism

==References==
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[[category:authors]]
[[category:Liberal activists]]

Zionism

2007-05-22T22:26:05Z

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A movement to reestablish the [[Israel|Jewish state]] in the British Mandate of [[Palestine]]. The movement was started in the late 1800's by [[Theodor Herzl]], and in 1948 the modern state of [[Israel]] was established on a piece of land granted by the [[United Nations]] with the support of [[Great Britain]], the nation which had formerly controlled the land.

== See also ==

*[[Yasser Arafat]]
*[[Menachem Begin]]

== Links ==

*[http://www.zionism-israel.com/ Zionism and Israel Information Center]
*[http://www.mideastweb.org/zionism.htm Zionism and the Creation of Israel]

[[category:politics]]
[[Category:Israel]]

Talk:Noam Chomsky

2007-05-22T22:16:37Z

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why do you keep reverting my edits, its not vandalism, its removing POV --[[User:UncleJalapeno4|UncleJalapeno4]] 09:11, 19 May 2007 (EDT)
::Noam's support for Hezbolla is not just an accusation, it's a fact.[[User:Jaques|Jaques]] 00:33, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

Cite it --[[User:DemocraticSocialist|DemocraticSocialist]] 10:52, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

Ok, i checked out the source, but it is pretty suspect. It has a strong right wing bias. How can we even be sure Chomsky said that. I've heard Chomsky denounce dictatorships of all political ideologies, and the only thing I've heard him say about the Khmer Rouge is why are they getting all the media attention while the Indonesian genocide is ignored. How is saying that supporting the Khmer Rouge. --[[User:DemocraticSocialist|DemocraticSocialist]] 11:01, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

Well looks like you were right, Noam did meet with Hezbollah commanders, I'm dissappointed that Noam would speak with terrorists but just because he speaks with them doesn't mean he supports their brutal methods. Besides George Bush meets with Colombian president Uribe and the Saudi Arabian government and they are both terror states. --[[User:DemocraticSocialist|DemocraticSocialist]] 11:54, 20 May 2007 (EDT)
::Quite true. I don't understand why my (very measured) edits were deleted. It is a demonstrable fact that he does not support Hamas, nor did he support the Soviet Union, which he (again, in fact) described repeatedly as "a dungeon." He also, smaller point, identifies himself as a libertarian socialist, not an anarcho-syndicalist; perhaps that last bit is semantics, but still. --[[User:Keep_the_faith|Keep the faith]] 6:15, 22 May 2007 (EDT)

== the agenda against Chomsky here ==

I've made a few edits. The only not so suspect piece is the one viz. his 2006 visit with Nasrallah. He explains it thus, as he wrote to me: "I visited Lebanon to give talks at the American U[niversity] of Beirut. While in Lebanon, I tried to meet as wide a range of leading figures as I could, along with popular groups, in order to learn something about the country, as I do everywhere, in fact as any sane person does who wants to learn something about a country and is not merely interested in repeating some Party Line. I therefore was pleased to be invited to speak to Nasrallah, the head of Hizbollah, and ... to be invited to Walid Jumblatt's Mukhtara, where I spent considerably longer time with him than with Nasrallah, including a meal... Jumblatt ... is not only one of the leading political figures in Lebanon, but also the most outspoken supporter of the US war in Iraq and the most outspoken opponent of Hizbollah."

The rest, excluding the more-or-less comments about his linguistic theory (of which I am mostly ignorant), is just slander. There is also no mention of his past involvement with Hashomer Hatzair, but apparently that doesn't fit the agenda here. I'm no fan of the idolatrous, unthinking adoration a lot of people have for him. All that is required is a fair representation, which is not provided; I made the edits, in a small way, to steer the article toward that standard.

Talk:Noam Chomsky

2007-05-22T22:16:18Z

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why do you keep reverting my edits, its not vandalism, its removing POV --[[User:UncleJalapeno4|UncleJalapeno4]] 09:11, 19 May 2007 (EDT)
::Noam's support for Hezbolla is not just an accusation, it's a fact.[[User:Jaques|Jaques]] 00:33, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

Cite it --[[User:DemocraticSocialist|DemocraticSocialist]] 10:52, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

Ok, i checked out the source, but it is pretty suspect. It has a strong right wing bias. How can we even be sure Chomsky said that. I've heard Chomsky denounce dictatorships of all political ideologies, and the only thing I've heard him say about the Khmer Rouge is why are they getting all the media attention while the Indonesian genocide is ignored. How is saying that supporting the Khmer Rouge. --[[User:DemocraticSocialist|DemocraticSocialist]] 11:01, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

Well looks like you were right, Noam did meet with Hezbollah commanders, I'm dissappointed that Noam would speak with terrorists but just because he speaks with them doesn't mean he supports their brutal methods. Besides George Bush meets with Colombian president Uribe and the Saudi Arabian government and they are both terror states. --[[User:DemocraticSocialist|DemocraticSocialist]] 11:54, 20 May 2007 (EDT)
::Quite true. I don't understand why my (very measured) edits were deleted. It is a demonstrable fact that he does not support Hamas, nor did he support the Soviet Union, which he (again, in fact) described repeatedly as "a dungeon." He also, smaller point, identifies himself as a libertarian socialist, not an anarcho-syndicalist; perhaps that last bit is semantics, but still. --[[User:Keep_the_faith|Keep_the_faith]] 6:15, 22 May 2007 (EDT)

== the agenda against Chomsky here ==

I've made a few edits. The only not so suspect piece is the one viz. his 2006 visit with Nasrallah. He explains it thus, as he wrote to me: "I visited Lebanon to give talks at the American U[niversity] of Beirut. While in Lebanon, I tried to meet as wide a range of leading figures as I could, along with popular groups, in order to learn something about the country, as I do everywhere, in fact as any sane person does who wants to learn something about a country and is not merely interested in repeating some Party Line. I therefore was pleased to be invited to speak to Nasrallah, the head of Hizbollah, and ... to be invited to Walid Jumblatt's Mukhtara, where I spent considerably longer time with him than with Nasrallah, including a meal... Jumblatt ... is not only one of the leading political figures in Lebanon, but also the most outspoken supporter of the US war in Iraq and the most outspoken opponent of Hizbollah."

The rest, excluding the more-or-less comments about his linguistic theory (of which I am mostly ignorant), is just slander. There is also no mention of his past involvement with Hashomer Hatzair, but apparently that doesn't fit the agenda here. I'm no fan of the idolatrous, unthinking adoration a lot of people have for him. All that is required is a fair representation, which is not provided; I made the edits, in a small way, to steer the article toward that standard.

Talk:Noam Chomsky

2007-05-22T22:15:19Z

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Noam Chomsky

2007-05-22T22:11:21Z

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[[Image:Chomsky3.gif|right|thumb|130px]]
'''Noam Chomsky''' (born December 7, 1928) is a linguist who is best known for his writings on politics. He is an institute professor & professor of linguistics (Emeritus) at the [[MIT|Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) <ref>http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/chomsky/index.html</ref>.
He has always been very critical of [[America]]n and [[Israel]]i foreign policy and sympathizes with [[Palestine|Palestinians]] and has shown support for terrorist organizations such as [[Hamas]] and [[Hezbollah]]<ref>http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=11&x_article=1151</ref>. He has also been criticized for [[anti-Semitism]].<ref>http://www.jbooks.com/interviews/index/IP_Dershowitz.htm</ref>.

His opponents accuse him of expressing admiration for governmental systems such as the Soviet Union, Chinese and Cambodian governments which are characterized by central control, xenophobia, and rejection of free expression. Chomsky counters that he is merely pointing out the West's own crimes and not condoning authoritarian governments that the West opposes. Chomsky identifies himself as a "libertarian socialist" who is opposed to both neoliberalism and authoritarianism. <ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19446</ref>

==List of Terrorist Atrocities committed by the West according to Chomsky==
#The overthrow of democratic and secular leader Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and replacement with the Shah, a brutal dictator in 1953 (Done by the US and the UK)
#The overthrow of social democrat Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954
#The overthrow of democratic socialist Salvador Allende in Chile on 9/11 in 1973
#The Dirty War against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua in the 1980s
#The backing of a brutal military dictatorship in El Salvador during the same time period
#Selling weapons to a terror-state ([[Iran]]) to fund another terrorist group (The Contras). (See [[Iran-Contra Affair]])
#Selling weapons of mass destruction to Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war.
#Supporting the mujahideen which later became al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan in the 1980s
#Invading Iraq in 2003 against the ruling of the UN
#Blatant Support of Israel which Chomsky believes is a terror state despite his Jewish heritage
(Source: Hegemony or Survival)

However, it should be noted that Chomsky's books are riddled with factual inaccuracies <ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/100chomskylies.pdf</ref>. Despite this, all of the above are documented historical events.

==Linguistic Works==
===Generative Grammar===
Noam Chomsky advocates the view that the human brain has innate ability to generate gramatical sentences, thus all utterances which is deemed sensical to the speaker is necessarily grammatical, and the only role the liguist should play is to decipher its grammatical structure. This view has been criticized by many linguists as [[nihilism|nihilistic]] in that it rejects the notion of ungrammatical sentences. Noam Chomsky also pointed to instances of infants utter grammatical sentence fragments they have not been taught before as evidence for Generative Grammar.

===Universal Grammar===
Noam Chomsky also proposed the theory that a kind of universal grammar, a grammar that underlies all human languages, is hard-wired in the human brain. Thus all human languages are fundamentally the same, with only superficial differences. This theory of universal grammar has been criticized by linguist Geoffrey Sampson as being not falsifiable, arguing that the grammatical generalizations made are simply observations about existing languages and not predictions about what is possible in a language. To this day, the search for such universal grammar has been fruitless.

For decades, Noam Chomsky and his followers have been trying to make sense of sentences such as:
<blockquote>
''Who will be easy for us to get his mother to talk to?''
</blockquote>
which are deemed to be ungrammatical by a lot of linguists; by using techniques such as linking theory, anti-c-command requirement, A-positions, Bijection Principle, weakest crossover configurations, bound variable anaphora, asymmetric linking, licensing conditions, index of apronoun, null operator analysis, variable binding, configurational conditions, inappropriate and appropriate antecedents, etc.

== See Also ==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk8pxyAWTBk Chomsky Speaks about American Politics] Chomsky believes the Democrats and Republicans are a single entity
*[http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1136# Video of Noam Chomsky with Hezbollah Leaders in Lebanon]
*[http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomskyhoax.html The Chomsky Hoax] by Paul Bogdanor
*[http://www.grsampson.net/AGwg.html Grammar Without Grammaticality] by Geoffrey Sampson
*[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23543 Chomsky's New Blood Libel] by Alan Dershowitz
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXMZZCvFtlw Chomsky on Middle East Television] Chomsky speaks about American Imperialism

==References==
<references/>
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chomsky, Noam}}
[[category:scientists]]
[[category:political people]]
[[category:authors]]
[[category:Liberal activists]]

Noam Chomsky

2007-05-22T22:09:54Z

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[[Image:Chomsky3.gif|right|thumb|130px]]
'''Noam Chomsky''' (born December 7, 1928) is a linguist who is best known for his writings on politics. He is an institute professor & professor of linguistics (emeritus) at the [[MIT|Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) <ref>http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/chomsky/index.html</ref>.
He has always been very critical of [[America]]n and [[Israel]]i foreign policy and sympathizes with [[Palestine|Palestinians]]. He has also been criticized for [[anti-Semitism]].<ref>http://www.jbooks.com/interviews/index/IP_Dershowitz.htm</ref>.

His opponents accuse him of expressing admiration for governmental systems such as the Soviet Union, Chinese and Cambodian governments which are characterized by central control, xenophobia, and rejection of free expression. Chomsky counters that he is merely pointing out the West's own crimes and not condoning authoritarian governments that the West opposes. Chomsky identifies himself as a libertarian socialist who is opposed to both neoliberalism and authoritarianism. <ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19446</ref>

==List of Terrorist Atrocities committed by the West according to Chomsky==
#The overthrow of democratic and secular leader Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and replacement with the Shah, a brutal dictator in 1953 (Done by the US and the UK)
#The overthrow of social democrat Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954
#The overthrow of democratic socialist Salvador Allende in Chile on 9/11 in 1973
#The Dirty War against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua in the 1980s
#The backing of a brutal military dictatorship in El Salvador during the same time period
#Selling weapons to a terror-state ([[Iran]]) to fund another terrorist group (The Contras). (See [[Iran-Contra Affair]])
#Selling weapons of mass destruction to Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war.
#Supporting the mujahideen which later became al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan in the 1980s
#Invading Iraq in 2003 against the ruling of the UN
#Blatant Support of Israel which Chomsky believes is a terror state despite his Jewish heritage
(Source: Hegemony or Survival)

However, it should be noted that Chomsky's books are riddled with factual inaccuracies <ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/100chomskylies.pdf</ref>. Despite this, all of the above are documented historical events.

==Linguistic Works==
===Generative Grammar===
Noam Chomsky advocates the view that the human brain has innate ability to generate gramatical sentences, thus all utterances which is deemed sensical to the speaker is necessarily grammatical, and the only role the liguist should play is to decipher its grammatical structure. This view has been criticized by many linguists as [[nihilism|nihilistic]] in that it rejects the notion of ungrammatical sentences. Noam Chomsky also pointed to instances of infants utter grammatical sentence fragments they have not been taught before as evidence for Generative Grammar.

===Universal Grammar===
Noam Chomsky also proposed the theory that a kind of universal grammar, a grammar that underlies all human languages, is hard-wired in the human brain. Thus all human languages are fundamentally the same, with only superficial differences. This theory of universal grammar has been criticized by linguist Geoffrey Sampson as being not falsifiable, arguing that the grammatical generalizations made are simply observations about existing languages and not predictions about what is possible in a language. To this day, the search for such universal grammar has been fruitless.

For decades, Noam Chomsky and his followers have been trying to make sense of sentences such as:
<blockquote>
''Who will be easy for us to get his mother to talk to?''
</blockquote>
which are deemed to be ungrammatical by a lot of linguists; by using techniques such as linking theory, anti-c-command requirement, A-positions, Bijection Principle, weakest crossover configurations, bound variable anaphora, asymmetric linking, licensing conditions, index of apronoun, null operator analysis, variable binding, configurational conditions, inappropriate and appropriate antecedents, etc.

== See Also ==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk8pxyAWTBk Chomsky Speaks about American Politics] Chomsky believes the Democrats and Republicans are a single entity
*[http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1136# Video of Noam Chomsky with Hezbollah Leaders in Lebanon]
*[http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomskyhoax.html The Chomsky Hoax] by Paul Bogdanor
*[http://www.grsampson.net/AGwg.html Grammar Without Grammaticality] by Geoffrey Sampson
*[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23543 Chomsky's New Blood Libel] by Alan Dershowitz
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXMZZCvFtlw Chomsky on Middle East Television] Chomsky speaks about American Imperialism

==References==
<references/>
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chomsky, Noam}}
[[category:scientists]]
[[category:political people]]
[[category:authors]]
[[category:Liberal activists]]

Talk:Noam Chomsky

2007-05-22T22:07:13Z

Keep the faith: the agenda against Chomsky here

why do you keep reverting my edits, its not vandalism, its removing POV --[[User:UncleJalapeno4|UncleJalapeno4]] 09:11, 19 May 2007 (EDT)
::Noam's support for Hezbolla is not just an accusation, it's a fact.[[User:Jaques|Jaques]] 00:33, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

Cite it --[[User:DemocraticSocialist|DemocraticSocialist]] 10:52, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

Ok, i checked out the source, but it is pretty suspect. It has a strong right wing bias. How can we even be sure Chomsky said that. I've heard Chomsky denounce dictatorships of all political ideologies, and the only thing I've heard him say about the Khmer Rouge is why are they getting all the media attention while the Indonesian genocide is ignored. How is saying that supporting the Khmer Rouge. --[[User:DemocraticSocialist|DemocraticSocialist]] 11:01, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

Well looks like you were right, Noam did meet with Hezbollah commanders, I'm dissappointed that Noam would speak with terrorists but just because he speaks with them doesn't mean he supports their brutal methods. Besides George Bush meets with Colombian president Uribe and the Saudi Arabian government and they are both terror states. --[[User:DemocraticSocialist|DemocraticSocialist]] 11:54, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

== the agenda against Chomsky here ==

I've made a few edits. The only not so suspect piece is the one viz. his 2006 visit with Nasrallah. He explains it thus, as he wrote to me: "I visited Lebanon to give talks at the American U[niversity] of Beirut. While in Lebanon, I tried to meet as wide a range of leading figures as I could, along with popular groups, in order to learn something about the country, as I do everywhere, in fact as any sane person does who wants to learn something about a country and is not merely interested in repeating some Party Line. I therefore was pleased to be invited to speak to Nasrallah, the head of Hizbollah, and ... to be invited to Walid Jumblatt's Mukhtara, where I spent considerably longer time with him than with Nasrallah, including a meal... Jumblatt ... is not only one of the leading political figures in Lebanon, but also the most outspoken supporter of the US war in Iraq and the most outspoken opponent of Hizbollah."

The rest, excluding the more-or-less comments about his linguistic theory (of which I am mostly ignorant), is just slander. There is also no mention of his past involvement with Hashomer Hatzair, but apparently that doesn't fit the agenda here. I'm no fan of the idolatrous, unthinking adoration a lot of people have for him. All that is required is a fair representation, which is not provided; I made the edits, in a small way, to steer the article toward that standard.

Noam Chomsky

2007-05-22T21:59:53Z

Keep the faith:

[[Image:Chomsky3.gif|right|thumb|130px]]
'''Noam Chomsky''' (born December 7, 1928) is a linguist who is best known for his writings on politics. He is an institute professor & professor of linguistics (Emeritus) at the [[MIT|Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) <ref>http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/chomsky/index.html</ref>.
He has always been very critical of [[America]]n and [[Israel]]i foreign policy and sympathizes with [[Palestine|Palestinians]] and has shown support for terrorist organizations such as [[Hamas]] (which he actually sharply opposes) and [[Hezbollah]]<ref>http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=11&x_article=1151</ref>. He has also been criticized for [[anti-Semitism]], a flagrantly false charge <ref>http://www.jbooks.com/interviews/index/IP_Dershowitz.htm</ref>.

His opponents accuse him of expressing admiration for governmental systems such as the Soviet Union (which he called a "dungeon"), Chinese and Cambodian governments which are characterized by central control, xenophobia, and rejection of free expression. Chomsky counters that he is merely pointing out the West's own crimes and not condoning authoritarian governments that the West opposes. Chomsky identifies himself as an anarcho-syndicalist who is opposed to both neoliberalism and authoritarianism. <ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19446</ref>

==List of Terrorist Atrocities committed by the West according to Chomsky==
#The overthrow of democratic and secular leader Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and replacement with the Shah, a brutal dictator in 1953 (Done by the US and the UK)
#The overthrow of social democrat Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954
#The overthrow of democratic socialist Salvador Allende in Chile on 9/11 in 1973
#The Dirty War against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua in the 1980s
#The backing of a brutal military dictatorship in El Salvador during the same time period
#Selling weapons to a terror-state ([[Iran]]) to fund another terrorist group (The Contras). (See [[Iran-Contra Affair]])
#Selling weapons of mass destruction to Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war.
#Supporting the mujahideen which later became al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan in the 1980s
#Invading Iraq in 2003 against the ruling of the UN
#Blatant Support of Israel which Chomsky believes is a terror state despite his Jewish heritage
(Source: Hegemony or Survival)

However, it should be noted that Chomsky's books are riddled with factual inaccuracies <ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/100chomskylies.pdf</ref>. Despite Bogdanor's slurs, all of the above are documented historical events.

==Linguistic Works==
===Generative Grammar===
Noam Chomsky advocates the view that the human brain has innate ability to generate gramatical sentences, thus all utterances which is deemed sensical to the speaker is necessarily grammatical, and the only role the liguist should play is to decipher its grammatical structure. This view has been criticized by many linguists as [[nihilism|nihilistic]] in that it rejects the notion of ungrammatical sentences. Noam Chomsky also pointed to instances of infants utter grammatical sentence fragments they have not been taught before as evidence for Generative Grammar.

===Universal Grammar===
Noam Chomsky also proposed the theory that a kind of universal grammar, a grammar that underlies all human languages, is hard-wired in the human brain. Thus all human languages are fundamentally the same, with only superficial differences. This theory of universal grammar has been criticized by linguist Geoffrey Sampson as being not falsifiable, arguing that the grammatical generalizations made are simply observations about existing languages and not predictions about what is possible in a language. To this day, the search for such universal grammar has been fruitless.

For decades, Noam Chomsky and his followers have been trying to make sense of sentences such as:
<blockquote>
''Who will be easy for us to get his mother to talk to?''
</blockquote>
which are deemed to be ungrammatical by a lot of linguists; by using techniques such as linking theory, anti-c-command requirement, A-positions, Bijection Principle, weakest crossover configurations, bound variable anaphora, asymmetric linking, licensing conditions, index of apronoun, null operator analysis, variable binding, configurational conditions, inappropriate and appropriate antecedents, etc.

== See Also ==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk8pxyAWTBk Chomsky Speaks about American Politics] Chomsky believes the Democrats and Republicans are a single entity
*[http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1136# Video of Noam Chomsky with Hezbollah Leaders in Lebanon]
*[http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomskyhoax.html The Chomsky Hoax] by Paul Bogdanor
*[http://www.grsampson.net/AGwg.html Grammar Without Grammaticality] by Geoffrey Sampson
*[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23543 Chomsky's New Blood Libel] by Alan Dershowitz
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXMZZCvFtlw Chomsky on Middle East Television] Chomsky speaks about American Imperialism

==References==
<references/>
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chomsky, Noam}}
[[category:scientists]]
[[category:political people]]
[[category:authors]]
[[category:Liberal activists]]

Arab-Israeli conflict

2007-05-22T21:56:53Z

Keep the faith:

The '''Arab-Israeli conflict''' ([[Arabic]] "الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي", [[Hebrew]] "הסכסוך הישראלי ערבי") is a term used to refer to the recurring conflict between the citizens of [[Israel]] and the Arab states of the [[Middle East]] (notably [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Jordan]], [[Iraq]], and [[Lebanon]]). Many wars have been fought between the State of Israel and other Arab nations in the region.

==List of Conflicts==
*[[1929 Hebron massacre]]
*[[1948 Arab-Israeli War]]
*[[Suez Crisis]]
*[[Six-Day War]]
*[[War of Attrition]]
*[[Yom Kippur War]]
*[[1982 Lebanon War]]
*[[1978-2000 South Lebanon conflict]]
*[[Gulf War]]
*[[Second Intifada]]
*[[2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict]]

[[Category:wars]]

==Books==

Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict
by Mitchell G. Bard

Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict
by Benny Morris

The Fight for Jerusalem
by Dore Gold

The Case for Israel
by Alan M. Dershowitz

==The Israeli Perspective==

[http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/myths/mftoc.html Myths & Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict]

[http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0ken0 Frequently Asked Questions About Israel]

[http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~samuel Fact and Fantasy in the Holy Land]

[http://www.science.co.il/Arab-Israeli-conflict.asp Arab-Israeli conflict - Basic facts]

[http://www.meforum.org/article/522 The Smoking Gun: Arab Immigration into Palestine, 1922-1931]

[http://palestinefacts.org History, maps & facts]

[http://www.conceptwizard.com/info.html Concept wizard info, Visual information about the Middle East conflict]

[http://www.iris.org.il/sizemaps.htm Israel Size Comparison Maps]

[http://lindasog.com/public/terrorvictims.htm A History of Terrorism in Israel (since the 1920's)]

[http://www.middle-east-info.org MEI- Middle East regimes and Terrorism]

[http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/xmlpath.pl?id=3 IHC Historical Facts]

==Historical Accounts prior to conflict==

The vast majority of travelogues and historical accounts of the Middle east describe this area as barren- that does not mean UN -populated- it does mean UNDER populated.
Alexander Keith, recalling Volney's 1785 description (quoted above) fifty years later, commented: "In his day [Volney's] the land had not fully reached its last degree of desolation and depopulation." (The Land of Israel).

Other travelers and pilgrims recorded similar reports of the dreary state of the Land around the middle of the nineteenth century. Here are just a few examples:

Alphonse de Lamartine, in 1835: "...a complete eternal silence reigns in the town, on the highways, in the country ... the tomb of a whole people" (Recollections of the East, Vol. I, p. 308).

A contemporary German encyclopedia (Brockhaus, "Allegmeine deutsche Real- Encyklopaidie", Vol. VIII, p. 206, Leipzig, 1827) calls Palestine "desolate and roamed through by Arab robber-bands."

In 1849, the American W. F. Lynch described the desertion of Palestinian villages "caused by the frequent forays of the wandering Bedouin" (Narrative of the United States Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea, p. 489).

And again H. B. Tristram, in 1865: "... both in the north and south (of the Sharon plain), land is going out of cultivvation, and whole villages ar rapidly disappearing from the face of the earth. Since the year 1838, no less than 20 villages have been thus erased from the map (by the Bedouin) and the stationary population extirpated" (p. 490).

Mark Twain, 'Innocents Abroad' 1867:

""Desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds - a silent mournful expanse ... We reached Tabor safely ...
We never saw a human being on the whole route" (p. 451, 480);
"There is not a solitary village throughout its (the Jezreel Valley's) whole extent - not for thirty miles in either direction.
There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents but not a single permanent habitation.
One may ride ten miles, hereabouts, and not see ten human beings" (p. 448);
"Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine must be the prince. The hills are barren ... the valleys are unsightly deserts... It is a hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land... Palestine is desolate and unlovely... Palestine is no more of this workday world. It is sacred to poetry and tradition - it is dreamland" (pp. 564, 567).

Referring to the same era, the Christian historian James Parkes writes in Whose Land?: "Peasant and Bedouin alike have contributed to the ruin of the countryside on which both depend for a livelihood... In spite of the immense fertility of the soil, it is probable that in the first half of the nineteenth century the population sank to the lowest level it had ever known in historic times."

In 1738, the land was described by the English archeologist Thomas Shaw as "lacking in people to till its fertile soil" (Travels and Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant). The French historian Conte Constantine Francois Volney writes:

"The peasants are incessantly making inroads on each other's lands, destroying their corn, durra, sesame and olive-trees, and carrying off their sheep, goats and camels. The Turks, who are everywhere negligent in repressing similar disorders, are attentive to them here, since their authority is very precarious. The Bedouin, whose camps occupy the level country, are continually at open hostility
Alexander Keith, recalling Volney's 1785 description (quoted above) fifty years later, commented: "In his day [Volney's] tthe land had not fully reache its last degree of desolation and depopulation." (The Land of Israel).

Other travelers and pilgrims recorded similar reports of the dreary state of the Land around the middle of the nineteenth century. Here are just a few examples:

Alphonse de Lamartine, in 1835: "...a complete eternal silence reigns in the town, on the highways, in the country ... the tomb of a whole people" (Recollections of the East, Vol. I, p. 308).

A contemporary German encyclopedia (Brockhaus, "Allegmeine deutsche Real- Encyklopaidie", Vol. VIII, p. 206, Leipzig, 1827) calls Palestine "desolate and roamed through by Arab robber-bands."

In 1849, the American W. F. Lynch described the desertion of Palestinian villages "caused by the frequent forays of the wandering Bedouin" (Narrative of the United States Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea, p. 489).

And again H. B. Tristram, in 1865: "... both in the north and south (of the Sharon plain), land is going out of cultivvation, and whole villages ar rapidly disappearing from the face of the earth. Since the year 1838, no less than 20 villages have been thus erased from the map (by the Bedouin) and the stationary population extirpated" (p. 490).

Mark Twain, 'Innocents Abroad' 1867:

""Desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds - a silent mournful expanse ... We reached Tabor safely ...
We never saw a human being on the whole route" (p. 451, 480);
"There is not a solitary village throughout its (the Jezreel Valley's) whole extent - not for thirty miles in either direction.
There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents but not a single permanent habitation.
One may ride ten miles, hereabouts, and not see ten human beings" (p. 448);
"Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine must be the prince. The hills are barren ... the valleys are unsightly deserts... It is a hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land... Palestine is desolate and unlovely... Palestine is no more of this workday world. It is sacred to poetry and tradition - it is dreamland" (pp. 564, 567).

==Further sites==

[http://www.cat2002.org Coalition against terrorism]

[http://all4israel.org Update on victims - All4israel]

[http://pmw.org.il 'Palestinian' Media Watch]

[http://www.think-israel.org Think Israel]

[http://www.factsandlogic.org Factsandlogic]

[http://www.onejerusalem.org One Jerusalem]

[http://rotter.net/israel Rotter]

[http://www.israel-wat.com/parent_eng.htm Israel's War Against 'Palestinian' Terror]

[http://www.awesomeseminars.com Awsome Seminars]

[http://freeisraelnow.blogspot.com/2006/05/israel-palestine-101.html Israel 'Palestine' - 101]

[http://www.arabsforisrael.com Arabs For Israel]

[http://www.geocities.com/palestiniansarelies LIES!]

[http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/AminAlHusseini.htm Amin Al Husseini - The Grand Mufti and father of today's jihad]

In November 1941, the Mufti met with Hitler, who told him the Jews were his foremost enemy. The Nazi dictator rebuffed the Mufti's requests for a declaration in support of the Arabs, however, telling him the time was not right. The Mufti offered Hitler his “thanks for the sympathy which he had always shown for the Arab and especially Palestinian cause, and to which he had given clear expression in his public speeches....The Arabs were Germany's natural friends because they had the same enemies as had Germany, namely....the Jews....” Hitler replied.
[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/muftihit.html The Mufti and the Fuhrer]

[http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/farhud.html 1941 The Farhud, the Mufti inspired Krystallnacht in Iraq]

In 1948, nearly 900,000 Jews - indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa - lived in what are now known as the "Arab States." ~ Today, 99% of these indigenous Jewish communities no longer exist. ~ Arab governments forced us to leave, confiscated our personal and communal property and stripped us of our citizenships. 
[http://jimena.org Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa]

[http://www.memri.org MEMRI: Middle East Media Research Institute (translating Arab media)]

==Basic articles==

[http://israelinsider.com/views/articles/views_0401.htm Twenty facts about Israel and the Middle East]

[http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0ldc0 Arab terrorism came before the (so called) "occupation"]

[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13590 The Case for Israel]

[http://www.aynrand.org/israel Israel's morality]

[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=4454 Why Israel Is The Victim And The Arabs Are The Indefensible Aggressors In the Middle East]

[http://www.pmw.org.il/LatestBulletins.htm#b300506 Who caused the Arab "refugee" problem? Refugee: Arab leaders told us to flee Israel in 1948]

[http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/middleeast/Israels_Moral_Right_to_its_Life.asp Israel's moral right to exist]

[http://www.peacewithrealism.org/antizi05.htm Israel's Right to Exist Questioned, Anti-Zionism or Anti-Semitism?]

[http://www.likud.nl/press50.html Israel and the Palestinians: no moral contest]

[http://gamla.org.il/english/index.htm Gamla]

[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7268 Two causes of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The first is Arab racism, rejects any presence that isn't Arab in its neighborhood; the second is Islamic intolerance which leads to same rejection]

[http://www.tampabayprimer.org/index.cfm?action=articles&drill=viewArt&art=1255 How Strong Is the Arab Claim to Palestine?]

[http://www.ldolphin.org/palestinians.html The Arabs in the Holy Land - Natives or Aliens?]

[http://ziontruth.blogspot.com/2006/08/flauberts-observations-of-jerusalem.html "Flaubert's Observations of Jerusalem and the Jews Living There [1850]"]

[http://www.therefinersfire.org/israel_defends_itself.htm Israel Has A Moral Right To Its Life Why reason and justice are on Israel's side]

[http://www.netanyahu.org/ismorleg.html Israel's Moral Legitimacy]

British National Archives unveil presence of Nazi S.S. agents in Mandatory Palestine, working closely with Palestinian leaders. Historical documents in Britain's National Archives in London show
[http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3248081,00.html Nazis shipped arms to Palestinians]

[http://students.washington.edu/israeluw/info-anti.html When being anti-Israel is anti-Semitic]

[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/hebron29.html The Hebron Massacre of 1929]

[http://haveitclearly.blogspot.com/2006/04/120-years-to-first-of-arabs-attack-on.html March 2006 - 120 Years to first of Arabs' attack on Jews in "palestine" Israel, Petach Tikva 1886]

As grand mufti, al Husseini presided as the Imam of the Al Aqsa mosque in ... 1929. Hebron Massacre, Amin Al-Husseini organizes more riots in Palestine 
[http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/2543 From Al Husseini to Hitler Radical Islam and the Nazi connection]

[http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/israel_the_struggle_for_good_vs_evil/index.html Israel's struggle for Good VS Evil]

[http://www.think-israel.org/wright.munich.html Munich & morality tale of good vs. evil]

[http://www.acpr.org.il/cloakrm/clk117.html The Islamization of Bethlehem by Arafat]

[http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/lel66/2006/sep/12/palestinian_persecution_of_christians Palestinian persecution of Christians, Hamas may be seeking to impose Islamic rule on the Palestinian population]

[http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32560 Persecution in 'Palestine', video documentary that exposes the anti-Christian persecution within the Palestinian Authority, "Holy Land: Christians in Peril,"]

[http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27338 The Jews took no one's land]

[http://www.israelnationalnews.com/print.php3?what=article&id=1726 Arabs Recognized Israel - 1919]

Talk:Arab-Israeli conflict

2007-05-22T21:53:07Z

Keep the faith: on the value of the recommended reading

Everyone, there needs to be two sides to this article. I've made a couple of changes, but this article is completely whitewashing the Israelis? What about Deir Yassin? Illegally held Golan Heights? Could someone with a more balanced perspective than Conservatorium redo this (sorry I don't have the time)? It only strengthens your argument if you can tolerate criticism of it (although few would acknowledge that here). [[User:Wikinterpreter|Wikinterpreter]]
:I'll add some Arab-oriented material later, but I'm leaving for Arizona now, so... --[[User:Hojimachong|'''Hojimachong''']][[User_Talk:Hojimachong|talk]] 19:33, 1 April 2007 (EDT)

== on the value of the recommended reading ==

Hasn't Joan Peters' book been long proven to be fradulent?

David Horowitz

2007-04-24T22:32:06Z

Keep the faith:

[[Image:Horowitz.jpg|right|frame]]
'''David Horowitz''' is an ex-[[Marxist]], turned conservative activist and author. He was employed during the 1960s as a political aide to [[Bertrand Russell]] and was one of the founders of the non-profit organization: ''David Horowitz Freedom Center''. He now serve as the editor of [[FrontPageMag.com]], a popular conservative online political magazine. David Horowitz's writings also appear in ''Jewish World Review'' and ''Newsmax''.

==Books Written By David Horowitz==
*''Student: The Political Activities of the Berkeley Students'' (1962)
*''Empire and Revolution: A Radical Interpretation of Contemporary History'' (1970 ISBN 0-394-70856-3)
*''Corporations and the Cold War'', edited, and with introduction (1970 ISBN 0-85345-160-5)
*''The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War'' (1971 ISBN 0-8090-0107-1)
*''Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the '60s'' by Peter Collier, David Horowitz (1989 ISBN 0-671-66752-1)
*''The Art of Political War And Other Radical Pursuits''
*''How to Beat the Democrats and Other Subversive Ideas''
*''Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey'' (1998 ISBN 0-684-84005-7) autobiography
*''Uncivil Wars: The Controversy Over Reparations For Slavery'' (2002 ISBN 1-893554-44-9)
*''Hating Whitey: and Other Progressive Causes'' ISBN 1-890626-21-X
*''The Politics of Bad Faith: The Radical Assault on America’s Future''
*''Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey'' (2003 ISBN 1-890626-51-1)
*''Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left'' (''Regnery Publishing'', 2004 ISBN 0-89526-076-X)
*''The Anti-Chomsky Reader'' with Peter Collier (''Encounter Books'', 2004 ISBN 1-893554-97-X)
*''The End Of Time'' (2005 ISBN 1-59403-080-4)
*''The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America'' (''Regnery Publishing'', 2006 ISBN 0-89526-003-4)
*''Indoctrination U:The Left's War Against Academic Freedom'' (''Encounter Books'', 2007 ISBN 1594031908)

==External links==
*[http://www.frontpagemag.com/AboutHorowitz/index.asp FrontPage.com About Horowitz]
*[http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/ Students for Academic Freedom] - promoting Horowitz's ''Academic Bill of Rights''
*[http://rightalk.listenz.com/!ARCHIVES/ChurchillVSHorowitz2-64-44M.mp3 Audio of Horowitz debating with Ward Churchill]
*[http://dangerousprofessors.net/ Dangerous Professors] A companion website to Horowitz's book.
*[http://www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org/ David Horowitz Freedom Center]
*[http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/ Discover The Network] watchdog funded by David Horowitz
*[http://www.terrorismawareness.org/ Terrorism Awareness Project] - by David Horowitz Freedom Center

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