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  <title><![CDATA[The Question of Palestine]]></title>
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  <default_description>Still a basic and indespensible account of the Palestinian question, updated to include the most recent developments in the Middle East- from the intifada to the Gulf war to the historic peace conference in Madrid.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1980</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Edward W. Said]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Oct 06 20:16:46 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of Said's seminal titles, and it is good, but I'd suggest Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism, the other two titles in the informal trilogy.  Said offers a wonderful background to Israeli colonization and Palestinian resistance, but his constant editorializing is overdone.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="39379636">
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  <date_added>Fri Dec 05 11:36:17 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Dec 05 11:37:31 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[WOW WOW WOW. This covers so much about the Palestinian perspective in a balanced way. It changed the way I think about antisemitism (because Palestinians are Semites too). A fair and inspiring book. Give peace a chance!]]></body>
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    <review id="58150129">
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  <date_added>Tue Jun 02 00:06:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jun 23 05:58:01 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow! Said's study is finely nuanced but cohesive throughout. Sensitive, fair, and operating from an exquisite level of intellectual frenzy...<br/><br/>Recommended for lulz and merriment: Said slamming <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boBzrqF4vmo"><em>The Clash of Civilizations</em></a> by Samuel Huntington. Hilarious! I'm not sure if it's normal that this...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58150129">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45170305">
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  <date_added>Mon Feb 02 13:34:09 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Feb 02 13:35:13 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent, user friendly book. This book offers a historical explanation of events with regards to the occupation of Palestine.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45170305]]></url>
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    <review id="5235727">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Everyone.]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Tue Aug 28 12:00:13 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only question we should be asking about Palestine, really, is when we're gonna give it back to the Palestinians. It's a damn shame for all of us New Yorkers to share the historical burden of accomodating the location (what is now the Queens Museum) of the signing of the country's partition, whic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5235727">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27027240">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone who wants to keep an open mind about the Arab-Israeli conflict.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1986</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read an earlier edition (not listed on goodreads) for my Sociology of Prejudice and Discrimination class at JMU. I remember never being able to put it down (which can't be said for most assigned reading) and it started me upon the path of trying to read everything Said wrote.]]></body>
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    <review id="12944208">
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    <name><![CDATA[Steven]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jan 19 22:08:02 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 19 22:09:46 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Remarkably not bitter. The book is not necessarily the first book to read about the issue - it deals with historical situations, wars, agreements, etc. without explaining them.<br/><br/>But it also puts the issue into a Palestinian perspective in a way that is clear and logical.]]></body>
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    <review id="14906073">
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  <date_updated>Fri Feb 08 09:26:14 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't read it for a while, but my recollection is that it applies a perspective and context to the problem that makes it hard to persist in the anti-arab bias so prevalent in most mainstream conversations and dialouges on the subject.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Mar 26 17:52:19 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[urghh, i really want to read this book, but my brain just will not let me.  i read pages and go back and read them over and still have no idea what i read.  i just can't handle historical nonfiction, i guess.]]></body>
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    <review id="9798916">
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    <body><![CDATA[Lots of ideas here not commonly heard in the US. It was written in the late 70s and presumes a certain amount of knowledge. However, this is still a very important book.]]></body>
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    <review id="14902023">
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    <body><![CDATA[Only in the beginning of this book, so not really fair to review it, but so far it seems remarkably biased....maybe it gets a little more balanced later on.]]></body>
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    <review id="417961">
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[great resource... traces the collision between the Palestinians and the Jews and examines the question (i.e. future) of Palestine]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/417961]]></url>
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    <review id="738144">
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  <date_added>Sun Apr 15 20:27:37 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[a little dated now, but this is still a good read for anyone interested in the palestinian/israeli issue.]]></body>
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    <review id="12756156">
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[classic! great!]]></body>
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