[elfman2]

"The second condition is that Hamas must renounce violence. Israel and the United States certainly do not renounce violence. "

Of course we do. Is he saying the US must renounce violence everywhere in the world before we can require Hamas to renounce terrorism in Israel? So Chompki’s rule is that the most barbaric forms of terrorism are justified until every country renounces every kind of violence?

You're stronger than me for being able to read this crap.

[garbanzo]

Is he saying the US must renounce violence everywhere in the world before we can require Hamas to renounce terrorism in Israel? So Chompki’s rule is that the most barbaric forms of terrorism are justified until every country renounces every kind of violence?

Chomsky's primary rhetorical argument is that of facile moral equivalence - e.g. the cops have guns, the Crips have guns - why should Crips give up their weapons when the cops keep theirs? He pretends there is no moral difference in legitimacy between a democratically elected liberal government and religious nuts with guns.