<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>I think it'a an informed and judicious assessment of an increasingly hysterical campaign.</div><div><br></div><div>In the absence of an accurate analysis, the best will in the world can do the right thing only by accident. </div><div><br></div><div>Chomsky makes it clear that the heart of the problem is US government support for the government of Israel.</div><div><br></div><div>Our objections should be addressed to DC, not to Tel Aviv, as the BDS movement tends to do. </div><div><br></div><div>--CGE</div><div><br></div><div><div>On Jul 2, 2014, at 7:58 PM, Brussel, Morton K via OccupyCU <<a href="mailto:occupycu@lists.chambana.net">occupycu@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Chomsky offers nothing positive for helping the Palestinians and those supporting them. In fact he undermines their effort with much sophistry and contentious assertions. <div><br></div><div>I’ve heard his arguments many times now; he continues to sing the same dismal tune; he continues to try to justify his past arguments, especially in regard to a two state solution a solution which has become irremediably remote. </div><div><br></div><div>Yet he may be right that the efforts to eliminate Palestinians from the greater Israel will continue and I fear may succeed. </div><div><br></div><div>I thought his argument(?) comparing boycotting Tel Aviv University to boycotting Harvard (Yale, Princeton Columbia, all American universities), (which I would approve in some fashion) is specious.</div><div><br></div><div>What good does this article do?</div><div><br></div><div>—mkb</div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 2, 2014, at 2:36 PM, 'C. G. Estabrook'<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:carl@newsfromneptune.com">carl@newsfromneptune.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[sftalk] <<a href="mailto:sftalk@yahoogroups.com">sftalk@yahoogroups.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px;">[<a href="x-msg://3/#TopText" style="text-decoration: none;">Attachment(s)</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>from C. G. Estabrook included below]</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br><div><h2 property="dc:title" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); font-size: 36px; clear: both; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On Israel-Palestine and BDS</h2><div class="article-teaser" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="clear: both; padding: 15px 0px 3px; overflow: hidden; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Those dedicated to the Palestinian cause should think carefully about the tactics they choose.</p></div><div class="views-field-value byline" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; margin: 2px 0px 0px; 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(AP/Bernat Armangu)</em></p></div></div></div><p style="clear: both; padding: 15px 0px 3px; overflow: hidden; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><em style="padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px;"><strong>Editor's Note</strong>: BDS has been a topic of vigorous debate in the Nation community. For more on that debate, and for a range of responses to this article in the coming days, go to<a href="http://www.thenation.com/section/boycott%252c-divestment%252c-sanctions" data-ls-seen="1" style="color: rgb(82, 106, 131);">TheNation.com/BDS</a>.</em></p><p style="clear: both; padding: 15px 0px 3px; overflow: hidden; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">The misery caused by Israel’s actions in the occupied territories has elicited serious concern among at least some Israelis. One of the most outspoken, for many years, has been Gideon Levy, a columnist for <em style="padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px;">Haaretz</em>, who writes that “Israel should be condemned and punished for creating insufferable life under occupation, [and] for the fact that a country that claims to be among the enlightened nations continues abusing an entire people, day and night.”</p><p style="clear: both; padding: 15px 0px 3px; overflow: hidden; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">He is surely correct, and we should add something more: the United States should also be condemned and punished for providing the decisive military, economic, diplomatic and even ideological support for these crimes. So long as it continues to do so, there is little reason to expect Israel to relent in its brutal policies...</p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>