Citações XXVI

Because we are a non-Westerrn people from a civilization that has always been in conflict with the West. The world of Islam has always been a historical competitor, and is has never capitulated. So the one thing people don’t understand is, why do you Palestinians whimper? Why don’t you go away? Forget it. But we don’t.

Edward W. Said, interview with Timothy Appleby, 1986 – in Power, Politics and Culture interviews with Edward W. Said – Bloombury 2004