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Arthur,
While I feel Said is a great man, I also feel the same way about Yizhak
Rabin and feel that Ehud Barak could have dome great things if not undermined by
Ariel Sharon.
Here are some of Said's comments:
He [Abba Eban] earned rare
praise from Edward Said, who even described him as “liberal
New York
Times columnist Thomas Friedman complains to us twice a week about how Arab
culture, and especially Palestinian
culture, dwells too much on the past. How would you reply?
Thomas Friedman was a student here at St. Antony's and we're very proud of him. But that doesn't mean I agree with everything that he writes. It's absurd for him to say that the Arabs won't forget the past. How can anyone be asked to forget the past? Do the Jews forget the past? Can the Jews forget the Holocaust? Of course not. So why should the Palestinians be asked to forget the nakba [the forced flight of Palestinians from their homes in 1948]? http://www.merip.org/mer/mer223/223_shlaim_interview.html He evinces surprise at the extraordinary emphasis on Israeli security, the absence of reciprocal concern for Palestinian "lives and livelihoods", the dictatorial authority of Arafat’s "incompetent and ruinously corrupt leadership", and the role that the CIA is now to play in overseeing the implementation of the agreement. http://www.aijac.org.au/review/1998/2314/essay2314.html Bill
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