Summary
Writer quoted by Said in the Introduction for the portrayal of the Palestinian disaster as the solution of the Jewish question producing a new category of refugees, the Arabs.
Details
-
Arendt, as quoted by Said: after the Second World War the Jewish question was solved by means of a colonized and then conquered territory, but this solved neither the problem of minorities nor the stateless, and produced a new category of refugees, the Arabs, increasing the number of the stateless by another 700,000 to 800,000 people (The Question of Palestine, PDF p.14 / printed p.xiii).
-
Said’s Introduction note 1 gives the source of the passage: Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973), p.290 (The Question of Palestine, PDF p.264 / printed p.243).