Edward Said and Endorsing Terrorism Said essentially became the person most responsible for creating the idea that a paradigm of development in the Middle East was an evil construct of Western capitalism, and hence had to be resisted. Said, once a member of the Palestinian National Council, broke a few years ago with Yasser Arafat because he found him too moderate. And a few years ago, as readers of this page are aware, Said was exposed as having lied in his own memoir, in which he depicted himself as an Arab who was born and raised in Jerusalem and driven out by the Israelis after the 1948 war. His story, as we learned, was completely false. He and his family lived in Egypt, not Palestine, and S aid attended a posh private school in Cairo. And in July 2000, Said was photographed throwing rocks over the Lebanese border into Israel, attempting to hit Israelis on the other side. The Columbia Daily Spectator, his own university’s student paper, commented that his “hypocritical violent action” was “alien to this or any other institution of higher learning.” archive.frontpagemag/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=24027
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 13:35:19 +0000
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