On Gaza, MIT Professor Noam Chomsky says the debate inside the Israeli government is whether to allow „bare survival“ or to inflict „misery and starvation,“ as a former Israeli national security adviser recently proposed. „Israeli experts have calculated in detail exactly how many calories, literally, Gazans need to survive, and if you look at the sanctions that they impose, they’re grotesque,“ Chomsky says. „I mean, even John Kerry condemned them bitterly, they’re sadistic — just enough calories to survive.“ Chomsky also addresses