Edward Said: This Will NEVER Bring Peace to Palestine (Oslo Accords)

Edward Said was a literary theorist and activist who devoted much of his life to the Palestinian struggle. Although it wasn’t popular to say so at the time, Edward Said concluded that the Oslo Accords was a setback for Palestinian rights and the prospect of a Palestinian state. In this video, Alex Sheremet and Keith Jackewicz discuss Said’s essay, “The Morning After”, Said’s critiques of Yasser Arafat and the Oslo Accords, the realities in Gaza, questions on Israel and Israeli society, and more.

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Edward Said’s essay on Oslo Accords, “The Morning After”, in the London Review of Books: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v15/n20/edward-said/the-morning-after

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