In a decade or so people will be laughed at when they repeat this Zionist tropes. What Palestinian from Gaza have you meet at your local coffee shop? None. Israel walled off Gaza, makes it extremely difficult to get in or out. If someone offered you $1 million a year but you HAD to move to Gaza would you take your family there? Or $10 million? Is there any number? No. Because it IS A PRISON (within Israel's borders). Despite decades of experience as an analyst it just blows my mind you ignore the prison-y aspects.

I know I'm not going to get you to see it differently. But I'll keep making these comments because who knows when you might do a clean-room reassessment. ALL the facts. Not only those facts that one recites to further a narrative of Israeli Democratic goodness vs inhuman jihadists.

As for Chomsky. I used to feel the way you do. Listening to him irritated me. But I've made my peace with him because his ideas are interesting, worth thinking about. He's not a politician. He's an intellectual. So I will be sad when he passes.