Noam Chomsky on Israel, Lebanon and Palestine

Do you agree with the argument that Israel’s military offensive in Lebanon is “legally and morally justified?”

Noam Chomsky: The invasion itself is a serious breach of international law, and major war crimes are being committed as it proceeds. There is no legal justification.

The “moral justification” is supposed to be that capturing soldiers in a cross-border raid, and killing others, is an outrageous crime. We know, for certain, that Israel, the United States and other Western governments, as well as the mainstream of articulate Western opinion, do not believe a word of that.

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