Thursday, June 1, 2006
Martin Kramer notes that Said's negative feelings toward Hamas were at least intellectually consistent -- unlike many of those who have come after and are willing to compromise principle for their anti-Israel goals.
These intellectuals are nearly all secularists, who've long insisted to the world that the cause of Palestine is also the cause of revolution, equality, and democracy. So now that Hamas rules, are these intellectuals speaking the same truth to (and about) the Islamists who've become the new power?
No one knows what guidance Edward Said would offer were he alive today. But during his last decade (he died in 2003), he made occasional reference to Hamas (and Islamic Jihad). When these references are assembled, as they are below, they convey a consistent message. Palestinian intellectuals seem to have ignored it, as they rush headlong to embrace an Islamist regime...
Have you noticed how the lying liars of this world are obsessed with "truth"? They don't care about speaking truth to power. They want power, plain and simple.