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by: Edward W. Said
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 327.56940174927
EAN: 9780679739883
ISBN: 0679739882
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: April 07, 1992
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: April 07, 1992
Sales Rank: 189654
Studio: Vintage
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Still a basic and indespensible account of the Palestinian question, updated to include the most recent developments in the Middle East- from the intifada to the Gulf war to the historic peace conference in Madrid.
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Rating:  - More Anti-Israel diatribe!
Another propaganda bandwagon: lets blame the Jews!
Dont buy this rubbish along with every other book written buy decieved Jew hating morons.
May Christ have mercy on these cretins.
Rating: - Review on "The Question of Palestine"
In "The Question of Palestine" author Edward W. Said analyzes the complexity in recognizing the Palestinian plight that has plagued a society since the establishment of Israel. Said eloquently illustrates a different perception to the omnipresent and biased understanding of the Palestinian/Israeli issue. It was enlightening to analyze Said's version on the international conflict, not simply because I am sympathetic to a society under foreign occupation and in exile, but rather because it is a ... Read More
Rating: - The politics of victimization
Edward Said tries to portray the Zionism from its victims' point of view. He arbitrarily asserts that the Palestinians are victims of the Zionism. He never considers that perhaps they are victims of their own fanaticism and uncompromising policy that are practiced for decades that brought them into their pitiful situation.
Another leitmotif in the book is the idea that Zionism is colonialism. He tries to sell the story of the colonizing Jews against the native Arabs, never mentioning ... Read More
Rating: - Overcharged with ideology
The good thing about the book is that it is very well written and in a clear fashion. This renders such a diffucult topic understandable.
But the content is completely ideological and does not present the facts. It blames the corruption in arab's leadership for the suffering of the palestinians, but suggests this corrpution exists and was encouraged as a reaction to european orientalsm and zionist "occupation".
So at first the book starts with somewhat of a critic to arab leadership, ... Read More
Rating:  - Biased Story
Said's book presents valid arguments and discusses the anti-Arab prejudices of the West, and the corresponding support for Zionists in their expansionist mindset toward Palestine, but as Said states, "The reader will quickly discover, I hope, that what is proposed in this book is not an `expert' view nor, for that matter, personal testimony. Rather, it is a series of experienced realities, grounded in a sense of human rights and he contradictions of social experience, couched as much as possible in the language ... Read More
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