That’s very good!!!
I would emphasis that in essence the arguments contributed by people who trying to appear as if they actually care about Palestinians (when in reality they support any and all atrocities committed by isreal) is that in essence they are extremely Orientalist. They are Eurocentric-humanist, just as the European colonizer argued that the conquer of the world, the enslavement and oppression of native population, would benefit humanity. These ideas are very common today in what considers to be the western world. America invaded Iraq “to liberate the Iraqi people” and Israel have been interfering in Palestinian politics by aiding and supporting through weapon and money the corrupt and undemocratically elected Fatah and its current poppet leader Mahmod Abbas, since this is what good for Israelis.
These ideas, however, are not rare among right-wing-zombies, they can be seen through statement such as “Arabs can only understand force” or “we here, they over their”. Or the complicity of Israelis with the murder and oppression of Palestinian, such as with the famous case of the murder of 13 Palestinians in Nasrat by racist pigs, again, since Arabs are “primitives” and can only reply to and be educated with extreme oppression. As Edward Said said “Orientals are rarely seen or looked at; they are seen through, analyzed not as citizens, or even people, but as problems to be solved or confined or as the colonial powers openly coveted their territory- taken over.” (The same attitude and ideology can be seen in how women are viewed in western societies, they are an object that is already pre-known [mothers, emotional, sex object for men.] just like with Orientals they are denied real identity, and are dealt with extreme oppression when they brake away from the fake identity that are imposed on them by the oppressor. [Unless they join the IDF.])

In any case, it’s always a pleasure to read your comments, maybe one day we can spend some time debating your understating of “human nature”.

Ai, hommie, you brake my heart; you find more common ground with people who state that Palestinians are dumb animals that need to be ruled over, than me? I ran out of tissues by the third sentence.
But maybe this should be a good start for a quest into your predefine “us” and “they”. So who is the “we” and who is the “they”? If civilians who are being daily targeted by missiles constitute the “us”, then why people who are living a couple of miles away who are being targeted by much higher technologically weapons constitute the “they”? How would you separate between the “us” and “they”? Who would be the rational democratic progressive “us” and who would be the reactionary-religious-racist “they”? You are drawing your lines according to some utopian understanding of society. Furthermore, how would interfering in other countries politics by arming corrupt and sellout leaders who would increase oppression and misery, would stop the just resistance of the Palestinians? Ess’e, if there was a way to define “human nature” it would be the basic law that “oppression breeds resistance”.
Although not a communist, Edward Said have written important things….. But seriously, I have to admit that Said was the one to first draw my attention to the importance of intellectuals speaking truth to power, and to a better understanding of humanism. In other words, I would urge you to take Said in his totality through his brilliant cutting edge theories, and not to concentrate too much on this or that theory that doesn’t correspond to your political outlook.
So in his memory and as an obligation to my responsibilities, I will have to disagree with your understanding of his theories. Said, never argued that the world is some perfect place, but that through human reason, and not through superstition as a lot of Zionist argue (“the biblical ownership of Jews over Israel”), one could better humanity. Said humanism was a complex process in which the intellectuals have the obligation to bring forward in any situation the ideas and aims of people in the margins of society. For him, real intellectuals should not relate to their jobs as something that one concentrate on only at the university, but as an obligation to truth and any moment (something that I think is important to converse when discussing the propose boycott of Israeli academy.) Said, I feel, most importantly, gave a better understanding to people in post-colonial countries in understanding their culture and relation to the west, and in the west, of the complexity and often very racist, of what is supposed to be objective secular research. In short, body, don’t be dissi’n Said around me….