"US Preaches One Thing, Does Another"
Prof Edward Said talks to Rahul Sagar about the US role in West Asia and the burden a history of suffering places on the Palestinians.
You have identified arrogance and amnesia as the central features of US foreign policy. Now take, for example, the American establishment's recent love affair with the 'democratic peace thesis'. Why, in an amnesiac sense, is this preaching never directed towards the Middle East?
You've written that there cannot be a magical, overnight solution to the Palestinian problem "as we cannot deny the weight of the past". Does there come a breaking point when the sorrows of the past become too heavy to allow for Palestinians and Israelis to envision a collective future within the realm of your bi-national solution?
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