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To: Ilaine who wrote (3940)	10/10/2001 1:40:14 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

Edward Said is a less than reliable source. salon.com counterpunch.org The way this Ivy League professor is attacked is an example of the extent that Zionists will go to silence their critics. And the way you scoop it up is an indication of your bias. loper.org By the way, I am assuming your search for people on this thread denying Israel's right exist has come up empty. The silence is deafening. Tom

To: Ilaine who wrote (3940)	10/10/2001 10:57:44 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Edward Said is a less than reliable source. He's been caught in several major fabrications, e.g., about his family's property in Palestine prior to 1948. So take what he says with the appropriate dose of salt. Two thoughts, CB. First, I'm hardly an expert on Said but I do recall a rather long essay in, I think, The New York Times magazine in which he disputes your point. So it seems fairer to say that there is some disagreement about this issue rather than that he "fabricated." Second, even if you held your position, that he "fabricates," that would not effect his argument in this essay, that Huntington essentially paints with much too large a brush.And that, in doing so, contributes to inadequate foreign policy alternatives. John