Edward Said On 'Orientalism'
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Great videos Kel. I am going to link to Oriantalism later this week.
Thanks Sophia. Said's death is a sad loss to all of us.
We really need somone with that viewpoint still to be around at the moment.
I think, from the few chapters I have read, that it's one of the most biased pieces of pro-Israeli Hasbara I have ever encountered.
Shoher also appears to be arguing that things were settled in 1967 and that, if Israel were to hand back Arab land taken in that war, then the Americans should hand back land to the native American Indians.
It's a stunningly simplistic argument that totally ignores international law. After two world wars United Nations recognised "the inadmissablity of the acquisition of territory by war". This was done to prevent empires starting wars in order to expand. After this became international law, states were no longer allowed to keep land which they acquired through war.
That is why the land seized in '67 must be returned; unlike the land the US was built on.
Likewise, the argument that "most Palestinians do not want to return" is, first, an argument for which no evidence is offered; and is, secondly, beside the point. The point is whether there is a right to return, not whether you wish to act on that right.
But I think the argument that best shows Shoher really will say anything to defend the Israeli position is, "Civilized colonialism has done more good than harm to indigenous people".
When you find yourself defending colonialism as a good thing, you really are at the wrong end of the argument.
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