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Cons
Said lied about his palestinian background.
Highlights
Quality
Said's pain and melancholy comes through, etched in every page of this book and makes for frightful reading.
For those wanting a, albeit ocassionally caustic, tracing of the palestinian self-view and world-view of them, this stands as a... Read More
This collection of essays, though 400 pages, hangs together very well.
Price
This book is a priceless gem, to be read and re-read by anyone who wants to move beyond standard middle-east explanations, terr... Read More
Competitiveness
But the israel lobby does nothing illegal: it peddles influence and money and thereby influences politics in its favor, and not... Read More
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said, palestinian, israeli and jewish. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is high deception involved.
- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 37.5% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 24 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 29 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If there is any cause in this whole wide world where the obvious glaring injustice of it all has been summarily ignored and dismissed by most of the worlds leading intellectuals it is the cause of the palestinian freedom movement
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Saids pronounced sayida palestinian arab of christian descentwas that rare voice which informed the world of the zionist duplicity in a way that laid bare the untold sufferings of over 4 million of its inhabitants in the most lucid manner possible
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For over three decades saids was a lone cry in the new yorkian wilderness which drew attention to the state of israels ocean liner of lies ever since and even before it came into existence
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Given the supposed openness of the media in democratic nationstates its shocking how through over 5 decades the combined might of zionisms religious fanaticism the traditional incompetence of ruling monarchies in the arab world the wests moral ambivalence to call the israeli spade a bloody shovel and the zionist lobby in washington have been able to keep an entire nation of millions in a sort of permanent exile
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Of course he is severe and justifiably so on israel but it is his attacks on the rest of the arab world and the dishonest intellectuals of the western world that makes for fascinating reading
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Despite 40years of israeli occupation hundreds of illegal israeli settlements endless unproductive 34peace process34es the palestinians are no closer to genuine selfdetermination and nationhood
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The israel lobby continues to wag the american dog
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Americas blind support of israel and the billions of us taxpayer dollars continue to prop up the israeli apartheid regime and make peace impossible