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Palestinian Scholar Edward W. Said Dies
Newsday ^ | 9/25/03 | The Associated Press

Posted on 09/25/2003 8:11:48 AM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2003obituaries; 2003obituary; columbia; columbiau; columbiauniversity; edwardsaid; intifada; israel; obituary; orientalism; said; terrorism
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To: aculeus
"I'm deeply saddened...."
81 posted on 09/25/2003 2:39:45 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: wizardoz
Yeah, bring back the rock shooting armored truck
82 posted on 09/25/2003 2:49:25 PM PDT by APRPEH (tag you're it...)
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To: Semper Paratus
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?)

83 posted on 09/25/2003 4:24:50 PM PDT by mrustow (no tag)
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To: Alter Kaker
Noam Chomsky is saddened, deeply saddened.
84 posted on 09/25/2003 4:29:24 PM PDT by Catalonia
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To: Alouette
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

85 posted on 09/25/2003 5:16:38 PM PDT by E Rocc (Liberalism is to logic as raw sewage is to fresh water.)
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To: Alter Kaker
" 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.

86 posted on 09/25/2003 9:03:40 PM PDT by cookcounty
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To: Alter Kaker
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.

87 posted on 09/25/2003 10:14:18 PM PDT by beckett
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To: Alter Kaker
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.

89 posted on 09/26/2003 6:47:30 AM PDT by Stultis
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To: Yehuda; dennisw; American in Israel
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".
90 posted on 09/26/2003 7:13:13 AM PDT by Stultis
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To: aculeus
Gore Vidal ... His companion of more than 50 years ... died in Los Angeles Monday night

Of anything contageous? (fingers crossed)

91 posted on 09/26/2003 7:15:14 AM PDT by Stultis
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To: Stultis
Of anything contageous? (fingers crossed).

Naughty!

92 posted on 09/26/2003 7:56:49 AM PDT by aculeus
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To: Alter Kaker
Hell's new inductee, Edward Said.
93 posted on 09/26/2003 11:02:56 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (CA Gubernatorial Election: Morbidly fascinating like a train wreck of the GOP Express)
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To: Alter Kaker
This is the kind of news I like to read about! Especially on Fridays. Good post.
94 posted on 09/26/2003 11:15:24 AM PDT by Shryke
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