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In his final book, completed just before his death, Edward W. Said offers impassioned pleas for the beleaguered Palestinian cause from one of its most eloquent spokesmen. These essays, which originally appeared in Cairo’s Al-Ahram Weekly, London’s Al-Hayat, and the London Review of Books, take us from the Oslo Accords through the U.S. led invasion of Iraq, and present information and perspectives too rarely visible in America.Said is unyielding in his call for truth and justice. He insists on truth about Israel's role as occupier and its treatment of the Palestinians. He pleads for new avenues of communication between progressive elements in Israel and Palestine. And he is equally forceful in his condemnation of Arab failures and the need for real leadership in the Arab world.

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“These searing essays refract the reality of terrible years through a mind with extraordinary understanding, compassion, insight, and deep knowledge.” —Noam Chomsky

“Probably the best-known intellectual in the world. . . . [In these essays] Said writes copiously and urgently about the alarming state of affairs in the Middle East.” —The Nation

“Said is a brilliant, complex man who confounds one’s expectations at every turn.” —Rocky Mountain News

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In his final book, completed just before his death, Edward W. Said offers impassioned pleas for the beleaguered Palestinian cause from one of its most eloquent spokesmen. These essays, which originally appeared in Cairo's "Al-Ahram Weekly, London's "Al-Hayat, and the" London Review of Books, take us from the Oslo Accords through the U.S. led invasion of Iraq, and present information and perspectives too rarely visible in America.
Said is unyielding in his call for truth and justice. He insists on truth about Israel's role as occupier and its treatment of the Palestinians. He pleads for new avenues of communication between progressive elements in Israel and Palestine. And he is equally forceful in his condemnation of Arab failures and the need for real leadership in the Arab world.

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Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage (August 9, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1400076714
ISBN-13: 978-1400076710
Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.7 x 8 inches
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The Last Words Of Edward Said

March 14, 2012

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It is a sign of the bankruptcy of the Israel lobby that they portrayed the late Edward Said as "The Professor of Terrorism". In the real world, as will be evident to anyone who reads "From Oslo to Iraq and the Roadmap" or any other of his Palestine writings, the mans commitment to justice, equality and democracy were deep and principled, and his criticism of the "armed struggle" trenchant, angry but (and it's no doubt the "but" that earns him the above sobriquet) always qualified by where the fundamental responsibility for the violence lies: with those who have oppressed, dispossessed and humiliated the Palestinians, their society and institutions.

This book is a collection of 46 articles primarily published in the Arabic language newspapers Al-Ahram and Al-Hayat between winter 2000/01 and summer 2003 when he died. It opens with a fine introduction by historian Tony Judt, and is divided into three parts, the first of which "The Second Intifada Begins, Clinton's failure" covers the circumstances in which the Al-Aqsa intifada broke out and the realities of the Clinton administered peace process, as well as the events of the period leading up to 9/11. This is followed by "September 11, the War on Terror, the West Bank and Gaza Reinvaded" whose focus is on how the Sharon government used the Bush administrations so-called War on Terror as both rationale and cover for the increasingly brutal attack on the Palestinian people. The final section "Israel, Iraq and the United States" focuses on the growing momentum towards the US and UK (known in polite circles as "the coalition") invasion of Iraq, while keeping an eye on developments in Palestine and Israel. The book closes with a short Afterword from his son Wadie.

The articles are well written, managing to be coherent as well as angry and urgent. He is blunt and often coruscating in his criticisms whether of Arafat and Abu Mazen, or Clinton, Bush, Bernard Lewis, Samuel Huntington, Ariel Sharon, Saddam Hussein or Ehud Barak. There is also a personal edge including a brief mention of his illness, and examples of the methods used by the Israel lobby when they have attacked him. Despite the urgency and anger of much of the writing, Said's commitment to a real peace, as opposed to the mean, cold and triumphant one that Israel released drop by drop during the Oslo years is clear, as is his admiration for what the Palestinian people as a whole endure year after year.

A greatly missed writer and Palestinian activist who's writing, including this book, on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is always of a high calibre. A book I'd highly recommend as well as his other writing on the same subject: The Politics of Dispossession,Peace and Its Discontents and The End of the Peace Process].

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Edward W. Said's basic principles are that 'human beings make history' and that 'reliable information is the greatest enemy of oppression and secret justice.'

His comments written between 2000 and 2003 are hammerings on the same nails: the Israel-Palestine conflict, the US state of the union and the Arab world.

For the Israel-Palestine conflict he sees no military solution. He castigates relentlessly Israel's discriminatory policies against the native Palestinians, based on religious and ethnic grounds. Its policies forbid native people to own or keep land. It violates basic human rights by killing civilians and stone-throwers. But, he also condemns severily suicide-bombings.

His analysis of the Oslo and Camp David agreements, as well as the roadmap, shows that they are disastrous for the Palestinians. However, his own solution - one secular state of jews and Palestinians - will never be accepted, because demographic trends favour one party.

Said is extremely harsh for the Palestinian authorities, which he calls autocratic, corrupt and hypocrite (only interested in their own power).

Said calls the US a country of lawyers, not laws. Its election system is a 'frightening antiquated, inequitable and undemocratic hodgepodge of rules and regulations designed to keep the poor and the disadvantaged out.' In order to maintain the disproportionalities in wealth (2 % of the population owns 80 % of the total wealth), the majority of the population must be kept under control ideologically through the media and / or be kept out of the system.

The US defense budget attains monstrous heights while 40 million citizens have no health insurance.

For Said, the US is a lethal combination of money and power, controlled by the great corporations and lobbying groups.

The US Middle East policy, e.g. Iraq - an old-fashioned colonial occupation -, is based on the security of Israel and the control of plentiful supplies of inexpensive oil.

The Arab world is in an abysmal state. Most countries wallow in corruption, have undemocratic rules and a fatally flawed education system that still has not faced up to the realities of a secular world. The result is illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unproductivity, and greater degrees of tyranny and mafia-style rule.

The book ends with a glimmer of hope for an independent Palestinian state.

Said's proud, remarkably free and vehement secular voice will be tragically missed, not only by the Palestinians.

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Nick, great neck

incredibly insightful and important essays

This book is a last collection of essays on events of the times. It is critical and important and to the point.Read more

Published on December 7, 2008

Edward G. Nilges

Edward Said, we miss you already

This collection of essays ends with Said's death, and the brutal ceremony of the Iraq war, including Rachel Corrie's crushing by an armored Israeli bulldozer.Read more

Published on February 19, 2006

Danny

Objectiveness with agenda

Said takes the middle ground between Chomsky and Finkelstein, between idealism and antagonism to Jews.Read more

Published on January 22, 2006

Shawn Duffy

An under-represented viewpoint and a must-read

On September 25th, 2003, the Palestinian people lost their most outspoken, influential, and, perhaps, only voice in the United States when Edward Wadie Said lost his battle with...Read more

Published on January 8, 2006

Steiner

Some Sane Words from a brilliant man

I can't recommend this text to any reader new to Edward Said, check out Orientalism as its a much better introduction to his scholarly point of view.Read more

Published on March 28, 2005

John C. Landon

A Lonely Voice

These short essays mostly written for such Arab news outlets such as Al Ahram are an eloquent conclusion to Said's long journey of critique and expose.Read more

Published on January 17, 2005

Chris G

Some last powerful words from Edward

As the most visible and certainly the most articulate Palestinian in America, the late lamented Dr. Said was a prime target.Read more

Published on October 22, 2004

polaris11

said's writing still effect us even after the death

Besides his main writing "orientalism", I never touched his book until his death last year when I began to read "the end of peace process"..Read more

Published on September 19, 2004

John Matlock

A Badly Needed Viewpoint

Edward Said was (he died in 2003) the best known spokesman for the Palestinian cause in the western world. Here in the US we tend to hear only the Israeli side of the story.Read more

Published on August 31, 2004

Ramez Eid

Great book

I really recommend this book to everybody who wants to expand his information concerning the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.Read more

Published on August 31, 2004

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