From Ray Hanania
http://www.hanania.com/edsaid82202.html
It's a lot like the Israeli propaganda line that explained the failure of the peace process; "Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the "best ever" deal to Yasir Arafat and Arafat rejected it."
It was the best deal the Israelis ever offered. But it still stunk and was unfair and incomplete.
To the hapless, suffering average Palestinian, Edward Said and his coterie of admirers seem to be the "best ever" leaders they could have.
But, they are still crumbs. And the Palestinians deserve better.
These failures anchor the Palestinian tragedy in place and drag it down to the depths of hopelessness.
Hey. At least Edward Said still has a choir to sing his praises, and ADC has a television talk show microphone it can hug.
(Ray Hanania is a Palestinian American journalist and writer, and the only Arab American who authors a weekly column on Middle East affairs for a major American daily newspaper. His columns are archived at www.hanania.com.)
He got that right.
I caught a lengthy (20-30 minute) radio discussion of this on the radio this afternoon and none of this came up (2pm+ CST).