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Said: Dreams And Delusions
Znet Article, August, 30 2003
Edward Said
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During the last days of July, Representative Tom Delay (Republican) of Texas, the House majority leader described routinely as one of the three or four most powerful men in Washington, delivered himself of his opinions regarding the roadmap and th...
Said: Imperial Perspectives
Znet Article, July, 24 2003
Edward Said
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The great modern empires have never been held together only by military power but by what activates that power, puts it to use and then reinforces it with daily practices of domination, conviction, and authority. Britain ruled the vast territories...
Said: The Meaning of Rachel Corrie
Znet Article, June, 26 2003
Edward Said
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In early May, I was in Seattle lecturing for a few days. While there, I had dinner one night with Rachel Corrie's parents and sis...
Said: The Latest Peace Plan
Znet Article, June, 23 2003
Edward Said
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Early in May, while Colin Powell was on his visit to Israel and the Occupied Territories, he met with Mahmoud Abbas, the new Palestinian Prime Minister, and separately with a small group of civil society activists, including Hanan Ashrawi and Most...
Said: Give Us Back Our Democracy
Znet Article, April, 20 2003
Edward Said
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In a speech in the Senate on 19 March, the first day of war against Iraq, Robert Byrd, the Democrat Senator from West Virginia, asked: 'What is happening to this country? When did we become a nation which ignores and berates our friends? When did ...
Said: Who is in charge?
Znet Article, March, 08 2003
Edward Said
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The Bush administration's relentless unilateral march towards war is profoundly disturbing for many reasons, but so far as American citizens are concerned the whole grotesque show is a tremendous failure in democracy. An immensely wealthy and powe...
Said: A monument to hypocrisy
Znet Article, February, 14 2003
Edward Said
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It has finally become intolerable to listen to or look at news in this country. I've told myself over and over again that one ought to leaf through the daily papers and turn on the TV for the national news every evening, just to find out what "the...
Said: An Unacecceptable Helplessness
Znet Article, January, 17 2003
Edward Said
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One opens The New York Times on a daily basis to read the most recent article about the preparations for war that are taking place in the United States. Another battalion, one more set of aircraft carriers and cruisers, an ever-increasing number o...
Said: Immediate Imperatives
Znet Article, December, 23 2002
Edward Said
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The daily hemorrhage of Palestinian lives and property accelerates without respite. Both the Arab and Western media report horrifically sensational suicide bombings, complete with pictures and names of the victims as well as gut-wrenching details....
Said: Immediate Imperatives
Znet Article, December, 21 2002
Edward Said
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The daily hemorrhage of Palestinian lives and property accelerates without respite. Both the Arab and Western media report horrifically sensational suicide bombings, complete with pictures and names of the victims as well as gut-wrenching details....
Said: Misinformation About Iraq
Znet Article, November, 30 2002
Edward Said
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The flurry of reports, leaks, and misinformation about the looming US war against Saddam Hussein's dictatorship in Iraq continues unabated. It is impossible to know, however, how much of this is a brilliantly managed campaign of psychological war ...
Said: Waiting on a Countervailing Force
Znet Article, November, 24 2002
Edward Said
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Although I have visited England dozens of times, I have never ...
Said: Israel, Iraq, And The US
Znet Article, October, 10 2002
Edward Said
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Many parts of Lebanon were bombed heavily by Israeli warplanes on 4 June, 1982. Two days later the Israeli army entered Lebanon through the country's southern border. Menachem Begin was prime minister, Ariel Sharon his minister of defense. The imm...
Said: Low Point of Powerlessness
Znet Article, October, 05 2002
Edward Said
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Sixty years ago, the Jews of Europe were at the lowest point of their collective existence. Herded like cattle into trains, they were transported from the rest of Europe by Nazi soldiers into death camps where they were systematically exterminated...
Said: Low Point Of Powerlessness
Znet Article, September, 30 2002
Edward Said
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Sixty years ago, the Jews of Europe were at the lowest point of their collective existence. Herded like cattle into trains, they were transported from the rest of Europe by Nazi soldiers into death camps where they were systematically exterminated...
Said: Punishment By Detail
Znet Article, August, 13 2002
Edward Said
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Terrorism, and its obsessive pursuit, have become an entirely circular, self-fulfilling murder and slow death of enemies who have no choice or say in the matter. Aside from the obvious physical discomforts, being ill for a long period of time fi...
Said: One Way Street
Znet Article, July, 12 2002
Edward Said
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Even by the terribly low standards of his other speeches, George W Bush's 24 June speech to the world about the Middle East was a startling example of how an execrable combination of muddled thought, words with no actual meaning in the real world ...
Said: Palestinian Elections Now
Znet Article, June, 16 2002
Edward Said
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Six distinct calls for Palestinian reform and elections are being uttered now: five of them are, for Palestinian purposes, both useless and irrelevant. Sharon wants reform as a way of further disabling Palestinian national life, that i...
Said: Crisis For American Jews
Znet Article, May, 17 2002
Edward Said
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A few weeks ago, a vociferous pro-Israel demonstration was held in Washington at roughly the same moment that the siege of Jenin was taking place. All of the speakers were prominent public figures, including several senators, leaders of major Jewi...
Said: What Israel Has Done
Znet Article, April, 18 2002
Edward Said
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Despite Israel's effort to restrict coverage of its extraordinarily destructive invasion of the West Bank's Palestinian towns and refugee camps, information and images have nevertheless seeped through. The Internet has provided hundreds of verbal ...
Said: Thinking ahead: After survival, what happens?
Znet Article, April, 07 2002
Edward Said
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Anyone with any connection at all to Palestine is today in a state of stunned outrage and shock. While almost a repeat of what happened in 1982, Israel's current all-out colonial assault on the Palestinian people (with George Bush's astoundingly i...
Said: What Price Oslo?
Znet Article, March, 16 2002
Edward Said
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The television images on Al-Jazeera have been burningly clear. There is a kind of Palestinian heroism in evidence there that makes this the story of our time. An entire army, navy, and air force supplied munificently and unconditionally by the Uni...
Said: THOUGHTS ABOUT AMERICA
Znet Article, March, 02 2002
Edward Said
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I don't know a single Arab or Muslim American who does not now feel that he or she belongs to the enemy camp, and that being in the United States at this moment provides us with an especially unpleasant experience of alienation and widespread, qui...
Said: Emerging Alternatives in Palestine
Znet Article, January, 15 2002
Edward Said
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Since it began 15 months ago the Palestinian Intifada has had little to show for itself politically, despite the remarkable fortitude of a militarily occupied, unarmed, poorly led, and still dispossessed people that has defied the pitiless ravages...
