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| Charlie Rose with Raymond Kelly; Edward Said; Annie Cohen-Solal (November 20, 2001) | 
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Charlie Rose talks with Raymond Kelly, Police Commissioner Designate of the City of New York, about his reappointment by Mayor-elect Michael Bloomberg. Next, Rose talks with cultural historian Edward Said about the disparities between European culture and Middle Eastern culture. Finally, Annie Cohen-Solal, author of Painting American discusses the reasons why the art world's epicenter has shifted from Paris to New York.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
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The Edward Said segment July 20, 2008
The opening of this conversation shows Charlie Rose at his sensitive best. Said speaks to him about his medical condition. He has been battling Leukemia for nine years. Said speaks about the importance of the 'will' in struggling against the disease. But he also gives great credit to his personal physiician who goes nameless. It will turn out that Said will succumb to the illness in less than two years.
Said is one of the great gurus of the Post- Modern Post- Western Orientalist way of seeing the world.
He comes across as an essentially sympathetic, mild -mannered person with a very clear way of speaking.
Charlie Rose radiates good feeling towards him and towards the end of the interview will say as he does with those he feels closest to , " Thank you , my friend."
All this is fine. A very good and to a degree moving conversation on the human level.
But then when the Politics come in- Said proves a master propagandist and Charlie Rose just a bit too nice of a guy. Why? Said is the great critic of the West, and he is one of those academics who taught his students to be angry and bitter at it. This conversation comes a short time after 9/11. Charlie Rose does not connect the dots. He does not ask Said if he does not feel somewhat responsible for the contempt the Islamic world has for the West. Instead the political focus is on Said's work as propagandist for 'Palestine' and the 'Palestinians'. Here Charlie Rose does put in a spoke or two , reminding Said of the victims of terror on the Israeli side. Rose also asks about Arafat's rejection of the Sept. 2000 Ehud Barak offer which would have given the Palestinian Arabs a state alongside Israel with a capitol in East Jerusalem. Said defends Arafat's refusal and says he should have made a counter- offer. He too does a very swift rewriting of history in which the War of 1948 was as he sees it the Jews attack on and destruction of Palestinian Arab society. He says nothing about how the Arabs initiated that war, how the Palestinian Arabs were aided by five Arab armies in their attempt to destroy Israel. He does a quick historical rewrite.
Said is a figure of tremendous importance in the creation of the whole anti- Western and even anti- American sentiment which prevails in a good share of Middle East Studies Departments in the U.S. He should not have been given carte blanche to parade his propaganda. In fact his ideas and work have been tremendously destructive and have been one of the elements in turning many against the U.S.
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