a reporter asks Chomsky if he believes Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. He responds: No, the actual terrorists are the US and Israel, and the only reason Hezbollah is labelled as such by the Western media and political class is because they dare resist their genocidal mania

in 2006 Chomsky visited Lebanon and met with Nasrallah, whom he later called the most intelligent political figure he had ever spoken to. He also defended and hailed Hezbollah's legitimate right to armed resistance against genocidal Israeli and Western terrorism:

Chomsky said the same of Hamas' legitimate right to armed resistance against Israeli occupation, and pointed to the truism that those who resist Israeli terror are actually the moderate and restrained ones as opposed to the genocidal mania of Zionists:

also never forget that the genocidal Zionist death cult is illegally occupying Lebanese territory to this very day, and the only state that has recognized this illegal occupation and annexation is the US. Hezbollah is a national liberation movement:

Absolutely on target! Just because imperial powers dont approve their resistance to occupation and oppression doesnt make Hizbollah or even Hamas as terrorist organizations. Dont want them to retaliate then may be stop occupying their land.

@trininews Throughout history it has been convenient for the powerful to label any challengers to autocracy, colonialism, occupation or oppression, terrorists. It allows them to quash any uprising with a false morality. Hence the adage that one man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter.

DARVO Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. A manipulative tactic used to avoid taking responsibility and shift the blame onto victims.

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@aaronjmate Also note even the late Christopher hitchens states clearly that not only the Palestinians but hezbollah have the right to resist under international law and doesn't equate them with al qayda due to their ideological difference. after 3 minutes in

EU conciders Hesbollah as a terror org only since 2012 - for an incident in Bulgaraia that later was proven was unrelated to Hesbollah. The more you know.

Chomsky isn’t exonerating Hezbollah of violent acts; rather, he’s contextualizing them in the broader framework of state violence and the asymmetry of power.