Very interesting interview by George Kenny for his excellent website and show Electric Politics.
You can listen to the interview by clicking here.
I do not always agree with Petras, but his opinion and expertise is definitely worth paying attention to. Hope you enjoy this 50min interview.
The Saker
I give Petras credit for standing up to Noam Chomsky. Chomsky has repeatedly minimized the role and power of the Israel Lobby in shaping America’s Middle East policy.
Chomsky makes corporate interests like Microsoft and Intel out to have the dominant role in defining US relations with Israel. He would have his audience believe Israel is largely subservient to these interests and is rewarded only for serving them.
Many of Chomsky’s arguments are circular. He begins with the premise that all “real power” in America is wielded by corporate interests and then uses this assumption to ‘prove’ that Israel Lobby is not harmful to US interests because if it was it would be easily overridden by the demands of corporate oligarchs.
You can see Chomsky resort to that argument here:
“As I’ve mentioned several times, if the thesis about lobby power were correct, it would be a great relief to me and others who have been actively engaged for years in trying organize popular pressure to lead to abandonment of US rejectionism. We could stop all of that, just go to the corporate headquarters of Lockheed Martin, Intel, Microsoft, and others and explain to them that their interests are harmed by US support for Israel, so they should terminate their investments in Israel and use their political and economic clout to put the lobby out of business. Anyone with a little familiarity with American society and political economy knows that they could do that in their sleep. That in fact is the sole activist-related conclusion that follows from the thesis.”
Listening to Chomsky’s argument one gets the notion that if Israel weren’t run by America’s loyal satraps, it would never receive massive investments by Intel and Microsoft. That’s true only to an extent.
If Israel assumed a less belligerent posture, I can’t imagine that this wellspring of American support would dry up. America is not necessarily the puppeteer pulling Israel’s strings and forcing it into these conflicts.
Sorry, but as Blankfort says, the problem with Chomsky’s ctricism is that he ignores the whole process of policy formation.
Here are a few articles about Chomsky’s flawed arguments:
Chomsky on Oil and the Israel Lobby
Chomsky- Blankfort Polemic
Chomsky’s Fourteen Erroneous Theses
-AA
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