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  • on We Are Accused Of Terrorism by Nizar Qabbani, on December 7, 2007

    another view

    dang, this is deep.

    a great persective from the eyes of a Palestinian, no later than 1998, of course (when he died), so i wonder how accurate this perception is today. i imagine not much has changed.

    anyhow, i love the part directly stated about America at the end, with the metaphore "It is a gigantic structure but without a wall."

    sometimes it feels this way. but perhaps a better depiction would be "a gigantic structure but with many walls," as there are so many different people and cultures here - which can make us hard to unite, ironically.

    what the author did not see at the time is that it is the people of the world that make up America's identity, not just the steriotypical white Anglo-Saxon, blonde hair, blue eyed Europeans who have lost their identity.

    but then again, our president IS a white, southern-speaking Texan. what could be a more steriotypical figurehead?

    and if "[they] are accused of terrorism," then is it safe to say that "we are accused of war-mongering"?

    Pap