Noam Chomsky vs. Al Franken: Behind the odd progressive divide between senators, intellectuals on Gaza - Salon.com
Very recently, former U.S. national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski
had this to say about Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
brutal attack on and now invasion of Gaza: “He is isolating Israel. He’s
endangering its longer-range future. And I think we ought to make it
very clear that this is a course of action which we thoroughly
disapprove and which we do not support and which may compel us and the
rest of the international community to take some steps of legitimizing
Palestinian aspirations perhaps in the U.N.”
While it is to be expected that not all of Washington would sign on to this, it is shocking to find the U.S. Senate voting
unanimously for Senate Resolution 498, which gave U.S. support for the
Israeli defense forces’ invasion and urges Palestinian Authority
president Mahmoud Abbas to dissolve the unity governing arrangement with
Hamas and condemn the attacks on Israel. The resolution calls on Hamas
to immediately cease all rocket and other attacks against Israel.
Sen.
Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., a co-sponsor of the resolution, was absolutely
right when he said, “The United States Senate is in Israel’s camp.”
