[The_Rorschach]

Be honest Max, do you truly believe this man is worthy of veneration? I marked him as a major Levantine Arab terrorist in the Abbas thread a month or so ago and recieved no argument then so why trifle now. He spoke of a single nation-state governing Jerusalem and the outlying area much as existed during the Ottoman Empire where Christians, Molsems and Jews may coexist freely but really, that is merely a nice way of saying he wishes to see Israel as a nation erased from existance. . .Though for good reason, as he was born and raised in Jerusalem and driven out by the Israelis after the 1948 war. Wait a minute, forgive me, that was the story he made up for his memoirs which was later proven to be a falsehood when it was discovered he had been in fact born and raised in Egypt where he attended a privilaged private school in Cairo.

He was well educated, and very persuasive, but ever manipulative and prey to his own prejudiced intent. Having read Said's articles in Z Magazine, it is, quite frankly, hard for me to believe anyone could accept him as a legitimate authority - Nor am I alone. Bernard Lewis has called his works concerning western imperialism incomplete, going on to describe them as oversimplifications of the dichotomy which exists between East and West and adding that Said is guilty of having exaggerated the nature of colonial reality within the Middle East. Martin Kramer has demonstrated how the entire field of Middle Eastern studies became ideologically distorted as a result of Said's work in his own treatise, Ivory Towers on Sand.

Said was a brainchild of the complete and utter bullshit pathology which claims the stunted development in the Middle East was a result of Western capitalism, and is therefore an abomination to be not only resisted but destroyed at any cost. This may be hard to believe of such a mild mannered scholar, but it should be pointed out that Said, once a member of the Palestinian National Council, broke a few years ago with Yasser Arafat because he found him too moderate. Three years ago he was photographed throwing rocks at Israeli's from the Lebanese border in an attempt to get IDF soldiers to shoot at him.

Said in life was guilty of the same intellectual totalitarianism as Noam Chomsky and others whom preach the tolerance of differing ideals, yet lambast any whom fail to fall into line with their own warped ideaologies.