Hopes and Prospects

[JAH23]

Currently I am in the middle of reading Hopes and Prospects by Noam Chomsky. It's his latest book, and the first I've read by Chomsky. The book is really great in regards to explaining U.S foreign policy of today and years past. I only graduated high school so it's very interesting to hear about the actions of the United States that were not in the history books. Compared to Zinn, I think Chomsky's language is vague and sometimes does not provide thorough examples, but besides this I would definitely recommend this book. Chomsky also spends a great deal of time accounting the Israel/Palestine conflict and taking a very anti Zionist stance, which was refreshing after hearing from some people on this site that he is a Zionist...

[x359594]

...Chomsky also spends a great deal of time accounting the Israel/Palestine conflict and taking a very anti Zionist stance, which was refreshing after hearing from some people on this site that he is a Zionist...

Chomsky went to Israel in 1948 and was a kibbutznik for awhile. He seems to have held high hopes for Israel as an emergent socialist nation until the 1960s when he began criticizing Israeli policy toward the Arab states, its reliance on the US and its treatment of the Palestinian people. Since then he's been characterized as a "self-hating Jew" by Zionists.