Summary
Establishment figure whose Op-Ed piece in The New York Times, April 1, 1979, entitled “The Mideast Challenge”, Said takes to be making the point that serious discussion of the Palestinians is always postponed.
Details
- Said’s first point in Chapter Four III is that despite all the talk about Palestinians there has been a political, journalistic, even a cultural tendency always to postpone serious discussion of them, and that this is the point being made by intelligent establishment figures like George Ball in that Op-Ed piece (The Question of Palestine, PDF p.236 / printed p.215).
- The U.S. government’s adherence to the notion that the PLO can be bypassed, and the Sinai II / Kissinger condition withholding legitimacy from the PLO, have contributed to the postponement of which Ball has spoken (The Question of Palestine, PDF p.236-237 / printed p.215-216).
Related pages
The Question of Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization, Jimmy Carter