Edward Said

The clash of civilisations that George Bush and his minions are trying to fabricate as a cover for a preemptive oil and hegemony war against Iraq is supposed to result in a triumph of democratic nation-building, regime change and forcible modernisation a l’americaine. Meanwhile, the soul-and-body destroying situation in Palestine worsens all the time. Writing in Al-Ahram Weekly, Edward Said urges an Arab alternative to the wreckage that is about to engulf our world.

In comparison with US war fever, Europe has struck a more moderate, thoughtful tone. But when will it assume a countervailing role to America, asks Edward Said in Al-Ahram Weekly

America marches to war as if in a trance. We must do everything in our power to slow down and finally stop the recourse to war that has now become a theory and not just a practice, writes Edward Said

As Sharon escalates his criminal war against defenceless Palestinians, Arafat has the courage and defiance to resist, writes Edward Said in Al-Ahram Weekly Online. And he has his people with him on that score.

Never have the media been so influential in determining the course of war as during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, which, as far as the Western media are concerned, has essentially become a battle over images and ideas. Israel has already poured hundreds of millions of dollars into what in Hebrew is called hasbara, or information for the outside world (hence, propaganda).