[Peace-discuss] No one else can

[C. G. Estabrook]

"Pretty much everything turns on a change in U.S. policy. Those of us inside the 
United States can influence policy. No one else can. If any change is going to 
take place in Palestine, there will have to be change here. It’s hard work, but 
it’s possible."

That essential point was made by Chomsky in a talk last night at Boston 
University "at the invitation of the BU student group Students for Justice in 
Palestine as part of the University’s first-time participation in Israeli 
Apartheid Week  (IAW), a series of events held in cities and campuses across the 
globe. According to its Web site, prominent Palestinians, Jewish anti-Zionists, 
and South Africans have been at the forefront of the IAW effort to exert 
pressure on Israel 'to alter its current structure and practices as an apartheid 
state.'"

A not particularly sympathetic account of Chomsky's talk can be found at

http://www.bu.edu/today/campus-life/2010/03/02/noam-chomsky-rails-against-israel-again 


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