[veronica]

A vile man all in all. Why don't these sorts just LEAVE THE US, if they hate it so much???

[philosofy123]

Dr. Said is very partial to his Palestinian identity. His views are tilted too far to the Palestinian side. The same can be said of the views of Netanyahu, and Sharon, which are tilted too far into the Israeli side. No one is asking Farrakhan to leave the US! No one should ask a great intellectual like Dr. Said to leave. The attraction of this wonderful country is basically its ability to allow many voices, and tolerate lots dissention.

My opinion regarding the Palestinian settlement is similar to the Zionist idea, yet I am not a Zionist and I have never liked the zeal of the Zionists. The way I see it is Jordan is a much bigger country with a majority Palestinians. Call it Palestine, allow any Palestinian who wish to relocate to emigrate there with a one time settlement fund from Israel. The rest of the Palestinians in the Israeli proper will forever be known as Israeli citizens-not Arabs, and not Palestinians! Gaza should be given back to Egypt as an Egyptian territory. Its citizens become Egyptian citizens. If the Palestinians in Gaza chose not to become Egyptians, then they can take settlement funds from Israel and relocate to Palestine in the West bank or Jordan. The King of Jordan should continue as the king of Palestine, and he should appoint a constitutional government of mostly Palestinians. Voila; Israel neighbors are immediately all friends, and Israel should return the Golan Heights to Syria to defuse any problem with Syria or Lebanon.

This idea is too easy, but the Arabs would never accept it. They are still dreaming of the day all the Jews of Israel are shipped back to Europe.

[SJackson]

A vile man all in all. Why don't these sorts just LEAVE THE US, if they hate it so much???

I don't think retiring to his homeland is in the cards, despite the fine beaches in Gaza he likes it here.

[Helms]

"since the time of Homer...every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist" but to ridicule "speculations about the latest conspiracy to blow up buildings, sabotage commercial airliners and poison water supplies" as "highly exaggerated [racial] stereotyping" (this in a statement of 1997).

Interesting he should pick the time of Homer, since the Iliad and the Odyssey and their publication on papyrus and dispersal around Athens and beyond marked the real beginnings of western civilization and indeed all of modern civilization.

Creeps like this are like "dwarfs" criticizing Giants.