Shane Mage
Tue, 7 Mar 2000 06:07:26 -0800
> Al-Ahram Weekly
>2 - 8 March 2000
>Issue No. 471 Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875
>
>The gap grows wider
>By Edward Said
>
> On his visit to Birzeit University, Lionel Jospin had the gall to speak
>of the Hizbullah fighters as terrorists, also expressing his
>"understanding" of Israel's actions against Lebanon. As is now widely
>known, he was greeted after his speech by many hundreds of students, who
>stoned his car and that of his escort, Minister Nabil Shaath.
Jospin's use of the adjective "terrorist," in reference to the shooting of
Israeli
soldiers in S. Lebanon, was, as he explained a day later, a rejection of
*provocative* "acts of war" during negotiations. Both
statements were made to the Knesset, not
at Bir Zeit. The rock-fisted-and-headed reaction of some Islamist
students, like
the dishonest indignation put forward by Chirac, are to be condemned. Not
so the
honest emotion of Edward Said, notwithstanding the factual error that
induced it.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
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