FW: The anti-imperialism of fools

[Michael McIntyre]

One might also call Shimon Peres an unarmed prophet.  If he weren't the father of the Israeli bomb.  If he weren't in Sharon's cabinet.  And you think ARAFAT is an unreliable interlocutor in a dialogue for peace?

MM

The problem is that Edward Said is what Machiavelli would have called 
an "unarmed prophet." And during the decade since Oslo began, the 
Palestinian Authority has nurtured the creation of a large number of 
armed prophets who think very differently.

Brad DeLong