Palestinian Scholar Edward W. Said Dies

Newsday ^ | 9/25/03 | The Associated Press

[Alter Kaker]

NEW YORK -- Edward W. Said, a Columbia University professor, literary critic and leading spokesman in the United States for the Palestinian cause, has died, his editor at Knopf publishers said Thursday. He was 67.

Said died at a New York hospital, said editor Shelly Wanger. He had suffered from leukemia at least since the early 1990s.

[sheik yerbouty]

"I'm deeply saddened...."

[APRPEH]

Yeah, bring back the rock shooting armored truck

[mrustow]

Is this the same guy who wrote a best seller about growing up in Jerusalem that was all a lie?

Yup. And the reporter repeats the lie. He was born in Cairo. He's an Egyptian. (Wasn't Arafat also born in Cairo?)

[Catalonia]

Noam Chomsky is saddened, deeply saddened.

[E Rocc]

I would say that the person who posted on the Aug. 19 thread about the #2 bus bombing to rant that "all religion is equally evil", even before the ZAKA finished wiping up the babies' blood, showed a rather hateful side.

Are you referring to post #283?

To: Thane_Banquo

Islam is a threat to human life everywhere.

Religious hatred of all forms is a threat to human life everywhere.

-Eric

283 posted on 08/19/2003 4:00 PM EDT by E Rocc ("Dry counties" are a Protestant version of "sharia")

Do you not understand the difference between "all religion" and "religious hatred"? Or was this an intentional misreporesentation?

-Eric

[cookcounty]

" He had suffered from leukemia at least since the early 1990s."

That must be why he always looked so exhausted. I always assumed he looked that way from constantly pushing such tired ideas.

[beckett]

One of the most destructive people of the last half century, steeped in the language of leftism. An artist of the facile lie.

It will be interesting to read Christopher Hitchens' memoriam, which I'm sure he will write. They were close colleagues in youth, less so with the passage of time and the growth of wisdom for Hitchens.

[Stultis]

So, how have Noam Chomsky, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Edward Asner, Ramsey Clark and Robert Altman been feeling lately?

So many spittle soaked, jackboot licking, freedom hating, bitter old men; so few streptococcus pneumoniae.

[Stultis]

Look out by the way. The death of Said will occasion a big push by those claiming that the single state solution (i.e. no more Israel) is the "only viable solution".

[Stultis]

Gore Vidal ... His companion of more than 50 years ... died in Los Angeles Monday night

Of anything contageous? (fingers crossed)

[aculeus]

Of anything contageous? (fingers crossed).

Naughty!

[Uncle Miltie]

Hell's new inductee, Edward Said.

[Shryke]

This is the kind of news I like to read about! Especially on Fridays. Good post.