The New York Times · 6 October 1974
CP-1974-018
Peace in the Middle East?
Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky argues, an Israeli and Arab talk Peace in the and Arabs have equal claims to all of made in the case of security: it can de- old Palestine. Partition, as voted by the fend its people only if it retains its in- U.N. and accepted by the Jews in 1947, Middle East? dependence.
And in both cases, the ar- would only create competing nation- gument also applies to any future states, each one repressing its local Palestinian Jorcanian-Palestinian Rejlections on Justice and Nationhood. ninority. Hence, the only just solution state.
The simple truth is that political By Noam Chomsiey. is to share the entire land through a bi- sovereignty is a vital form of protec- 224 pp. New York: Pantheon Books. national arrangement. Here, however, tion, and no natior willingly does Cloth, $7.95. Vintage Books. che problems begin, for Chomsky is un- without it. It seems particularly cal- Paper, $1.9
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"Peace in the Middle East?," The New York Times, 6 October 1974. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1974-018. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1974-018
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