In this video, MIT professor, anarchist, political philosopher and renowned linguist Noam Chomsky discusses the impacts of German arms and weapons exports into Saudi Arabia and Israel. He also talks about the refugee and Syrian crisis that is engulfing neighbouring states as well as the European continent.
- How does the military industrial complex of Germany affect the security of the populations of the countries in the Arab world?
- Do military and arms exports promote stability in the region?
- What are the roots of the refugee crisis that the European Union as well as neighbouring countries to Syria and Iraq are facing?
All of these questions and more are addressed in the video below:
TRANSCRIPT:
This transcript may not be 100 percent accurate.
Zain Raza: Before we come to an end, there’s a couple of questions, but we better move now on to some foreign policy in terms of Germany. Germany has strong economic interest in the Middle East. To name a few examples: it is selling tanks to Saudi Arabia and it’s providing submarines toIsrael. What implications do these relationships have on democracy and security of the population there?
Noam Chomsky: I think they harm the security of the population. Take the submarines. These dolphin class submarines that Germany is providing to Israel are instantly refitted in Israel to have nuclear weapons capacity, and that’s not aimed at defense of Israel. Nuclear armed submarines don’t defend Israel. They are meant for attack, that’s what they are. And we know what attack they’re aimed for in the short run: an attack on Iran in the gulf. That’s a terrible threat, not only to the Iranians, but to the world. And Israel, after all, has a doctrine, an official doctrine. They say, they’re free to attack Iran if they choose to.
Furthermore, Israel is engaged in what the Pentagon has described as a war against Iran, and so is the United States. The US Pentagon declares that cyber war is an act of war. NATO last year agreed at a NATO conference…