Readers will know that I don’t always agree with Noam Chomsky. But I mostly agree with this:
Few would question Israel’s right to protect its citizens from terrorist attacks like the one yesterday, even to build a security wall if that were an appropriate means. It is also clear where such a wall would be built if security were the guiding concern: inside Israel, within the internationally recognized border, the Green Line established after the 1948-49 war. The wall could then be as forbidding as the authorities chose: patrolled by the army on both sides, heavily mined, impenetrable. Such a wall would maximize security, and there would be no international protest or violation of international law.
And I mostly agree with this:
The two-state proposal has the support of a majority of Americans today, and could be enacted immediately if Washington wanted to do so.
I wonder about ‘no international protest’ in the first excerpt, and would soften ‘immediately’ in the second, that’s all. (Hat tip: Chris Brooke.)