The Current Crisis in the Middle East: Noam Chomsky

September 21, 2006
7:00 PM

NOTES ON THE VIDEO (Time Index):
Video length is 1:50:26.

Ayman Abu Shirbi of the Palestine@MIT organization, introduces the event and Noam Chomsky.

At 1:16, Chomsky begins.

At 1:05:55, Chomsky takes questions on a variety of topics: whether Arab states would peacefully live side by side with Israel; C.I.A. recruitment on the MIT campus; why U.S. progressives do not follow the European left and support the Palestinian cause; how Americans can translate moral rage into constructive political action in a unidimensional society; and whether a two-state solution wouldn’t actually be a defeat for radicals.