Like many other oppressive countries, Israel’s chief tools of control are through humiliation, degradation and terror. Editor’s Note:This article is adapted from the Edward W. Said lecture given by Noam Chomsky in London on March 18, 2013. The Swedish novelist Henning Mankell tells of an experience in Mozambique during the civil war horrors there 25 years ago, when he saw a young man walking toward … Continue reading The Cruelty That Keeps Empires Alive