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To: JohnM who wrote (34012)	7/9/2002 2:42:34 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I mostly agree with what you say--the bit about his personal history has been contested, with no clear resolution. Unless the proof is incontestable, the burden is on the proponent to show Said lied about his past. Nothing incontestable is online, so I'm withholding judgment on his honesty, though I do consider him guily by association when it comes to the co-authorship of pieces with the despicable Chomsky. On second thought, after reading reviews of Said's "Out of Place", it does in fact appear that he has questionably altered his personal history. In "Out of Place", I understand he admits that his early life took place mostly in Cairo, and that he had a fairly benign childhood. Perhaps the BS about poverty and growing up in Jerusalem was simply a "Western", racist failure to capture and understand "complexities". The rock throwing incident was swept under the rug by Columbia in the interests of "academic freedom". He should have been censured, but Columbia was clearly too cowardly to do so. Ii'm researching his links to Arafat. I'll let you know what I find His bitter criticism of the US clearly and distinctly outweighs whatever good he may have to say about us. I don't like him. It appears that he is probably dishonest on a personal level. Moreover, he spits in the face of a country that has allowed him to peacefully make a nice living even though he obviously detests us. I'd like to see him rail against Arafat, Mubarak, Saddam, or the Saudi royals in their respective home turfs. He'd be in jail, if he were lucky. Dead, possibly.