REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, GAZA - A Jewish-American scholar and activist Noam Chomsky, visited Gaza on Saturday (October 20). The first visit of the legendary MIT linguistics professor and political author was for a linguistics conference at the Islamic University in Gaza City on Saturday. 

According to Jerusalem Post, during the visit Chomsky advocated a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He said that any other formula was "not sensible," speaking on Saturday.

Chomsky explained that "in spite of continued settlement expansion," a two-state solution was more realistic because of the near unanimous support it enjoyed in the international community. To push for a solution that nobody supported, he said, was not sensible.

Further, Chomsky said that Gaza Strip was not viewed as a serious problem in the international community. "From the US-Israeli point of view, Gaza is in hand, it can remain the world's largest open air prison as long as its under (Israeli) control... so it's not perceived as a real problem," Chomsky acknowledged, quoted by Jerusalem Post.

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