In Rejecting the Bahrain Conference, Palestinian Leaders Keep Faith with Their Long-Range Intentions
Neither peace nor prosperity is Mahmoud Abbas’s goal.
July 11, 2019
And their anti-Israel consequences.
Few thinkers have had so enormous an impact on the humanities as Edward Said, an English professor whose 1978 book Orientalism argued that all Western scholarship of the Middle East—indeed, all European writing about the Islamic world—was inherently suspect, reflecting only stereotypes and fantasies. Accompanying this argument was vituperation against Israel, to which Said dedicated much of his subsequent public life, inspiring multiple generations of academic Israel-haters. William D. Rubinstein examines Said’s distortions and tortured logic:
Neither peace nor prosperity is Mahmoud Abbas’s goal.
Fordow can return to high enrichment at a moment’s notice.
And their anti-Israel consequences.
Seven decades of Tradition.
Tightknit communities as stand-ins for a society at large.
Few thinkers have had so enormous an impact on the humanities as Edward Said, an English professor whose 1978 book Orientalism argued that all Western scholarship of the Middle East—indeed, all European writing about the Islamic world—was inherently suspect, reflecting only stereotypes and fantasies. Accompanying this argument was vituperation against Israel, to which Said dedicated much of his subsequent public life, inspiring multiple generations of academic Israel-haters. William D. Rubinstein examines Said’s distortions and tortured logic:
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