7 Jul, 2013
Chomsky: How Do We Defend Ourselves from the Corporate and Imperial Forces That Threaten Us? | Alternet
The legitimacy of borders – of states, for that matter – is at best conditional and temporary. Almost all borders have been imposed and maintained by violence, and are quite arbitrary.
The Lebanon-Israel border was established a century ago by the Sykes-Picot Agreement, dividing up the former Ottoman Empire in the interests of British and French imperial power, with no concern for the people who happened to live there, or even for the terrain. The border makes no sense, which is why it was so easy to cross unwittingly.
Surveying the terrible conflicts in the world, it’s clear that almost all are the residue of imperial crimes and the borders that the great powers drew in their own interests.
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