Of peoples eyes, لا i am edward said, i was born in 1935 into a Christian Family in this house, my. Father was successful merchant who imported stationary from egypt, not only the eldest, but he was also the only boy in the family, so i think we thought of him, his sisters a bit as he was getting a good deal as they say, i was 10 or 11 years old when i little by little realized the presence of jewish immigrants in the city, our city was experiencing a. Chaotic situation in those days, our house was not far from King David Hotel, so i was terrified when that King David Hotel bombing happened. Jewish terrorists bombed the King David Hotel in 1946, the wreckage could be seen from our house. I recall the rising sense of danger, british soldiers on the alert and news of impending war between palestinians and jewish forces. A year later, we went to cairo with all our relatives and family members because the situation became too difficult, that was a oneway trip with no return date. Most of my family left jerusalem because they had to, our house was an area that was uh totally unprotected and it was an area that fell to the hagana in i think february of 1948, there was to my recollection, there was no militia, there was no organized resistance of any sort, by the time the. Fighting began in in the uh later part of 1947 uh it became impossible to live there and there was a general sense of panic uh and my family left at the end of december of 47. In cairo, my father sent me to an english Language School and i found my interests in literature. My father was a wealthy man with aristocratic morals. He was proud of. His us passport and asked everyone to call him william. He was very organized and cared so much about discipline. In relation to me, he was rather, he was very severe. I had four sisters, he was much more partial to my sisters and i for him, i was constantly to be reformed, and in many ways he focused on certain parts of my body, for example, my back, he was very upset at the fact that i didnt have a military posture, so there was a lot of my childhood was devoted. To training my back, training it, he would say, and so on and so forth, there was a lot of that, there was always my mother who of course uh counterbalanced it, and she she uh tried to spoil me. My mother was gentle and kind woman, she took me to the best music teachers classes of that time, and she motivated me to learn about music. All of the things that matter to me today, music, literature, ideas really are i owe to my mother. I was old enough to go to university and i studied medicine for few years, but did not like my field of study. For this reason i was expelled from Victoria College in cairo in 1962. My father was disappointed with me and sent me to the United States to study. It was the same decision that my grandfather took for my father in bulgarian ottoman wars period to keep his son out of it. My father sent him because in those days american law, we were american citizens, american law was such that if he didnt go by a certain age he would lose his citizenship, so my father wanted to make sure that he kept his citizenship. I happened to be a student at the American University at the time from 60 onwards where edwards sister was a classmate of mine, so i got to know the family, i got to know her and then. In the us, i chose what i was interested in and studied english literature. I was really interested in literature and made lot of effort. Finally, i got my phd from harvard university. I wrote my doctoral dissertation on Joseph Conrad, about 20 or 21, i read literally everything had ever written, then of course i knew that he wasnt english and he was an outsider, and i didnt make any association with myself, although obviously he was answering to some very deep um affinity that i felt with him. Like me, Joseph Conrad was originally from another country and was born in poland, he traveled to many countries and. Finally came to the us and wrote his famous novels in english just like me. I had a good life in the u. S. And everything seems to be in order until the event of 1967 that came as a great shock to me and completely changed the course of my life. Israel attacked the Egyptian Army in the sinai peninsula. So six arab states went to war with israel. فکر می کرده که چند تا عملیات انجام میکنی اسرائیل به کشورهای عرب حمله میکنه ارتش عرب مجبور که چی از خودش دفاع میکنه و اینطوری اسرائیل نابود میشه فکر می کرده که ارتش عرب قوی هست و میتونیم جنگ ۶ روزه وقتی اومد نشونشون داده که نه ارتش عرب همش shift in attitudes towards israel and zionism because as the us face defeat um in Southeast Asia the victory that israel represented in defeating the arab states in 1967 was this seen as this incredibly positive sign of the west recovering its sense of purpose and its military. Hours and so on, and i first met him, he he was just an american professor, but his connection with the with the Palestinian Movement was after 67, and then when the war broke out in 1967, i was desolated, i was in new york at the time, and i was completely shattered, the world as i understood it and knew it, had completely ended at that moment, and it was shortly thereafter that i began for the first time, i had been in america already. For 15 or 16 years and i began for the first time to be in touch with other arabs edwards 67 edward said bad, i think between 67 and the 1973 war um when israel expanded again uh he became increasingly concerned with uh the question of palestine and the situation uh of of. Palestinians and of the arab world in general, by 1970, i was completely involved, i had started to write uh in this country and i was immediately politically involved up to my neck. Edward also at that time began to realize that he is damn palestinian, and its okay to stand up for the downtrodon and to actually regain that ident, it was in that environment that i think, because i i discovered them that i had to rethink my. My life and my identity, even though it had been so sort of sheltered and built up in this completely artificial way, i had to rethink it from from the start. We did exactly what you expect us to do, we were just modern, we talk your language, we studied your language, and then all of sudden this society here slapped them, they said no, you are dirty arabs because you couldnt even war, you couldnt even fight, the whole the whole war lasted only six days, that kind of. Immediate collapse of the of the arab armies at that time had very very deep influence and those and they felt insulted. Now after few years of a seemingly successful life in the United States and teaching at one of americas best universities i felt like nothing more than a fugitive. Nothing was the same as before. He said that directly, ill never be home, when someone like. Said says ill never be home, thats something strange, but if you think, if you think like a palestinian, youll understand, the idea of. Being a fugitive is just like being affected by leprosy. You feel alone in the middle of the crowd. A fugitive can never be expelled from his homeland and can never return to it. A fugitive feels like a parasite. A fugitive is uninvited guest who has got nothing in common with his place of residence and is always considered a stranger. All palestinians feel the same sense of. الفلسطيني اول شيء من دون بلد هي شغله اثنين الفلسطيني غير قادر على العوده لفلسطين يعني ثلاثه ايه اي مكان بالنسبه للفلسطيني هو غربه يعني هو غريب باي مكان بالعالم حتى بفلسطين هو غريب لقد جئتكم يا سياده الرئيس بغصن الزيتون في في يدي، وببندقيه الثائر في يدي, فلا تسقط الغصن الاخضر من يدي، تسقط الغصن الاخضر من يدي، لا تسقط الاخضر من يدي. This was memorable sentence by yasir arafat before the United NationsGeneral Assembly on november the 13th 1974. I met him for a long period of time when he came to the united. Nations here in november of 1974, and he had the speech that was cobbled together, and i was asked by him to put it into english, which he gave at the General Assembly, and then from then on i started to see him regularly, احد الذين ترجموا خطاب ياسر عرفات الذي القاه في سنه 74 امام الامم المتحده، هذا الخطاب المشهور جدا الذي قال فيه تلك الجمله الجميله التي صاغها الشاعر. بيد وبندقيه الثائر بيد فلا تسقطوا غصن الزيتون من يد الامين العام مع المجلس في اکتوبر 2015 والتي لم يكن هناك after this famous speech the Palestine Liberation Organization was granted observer status at the un and the palestinians were given the right to determine the fate of their inhabited territories. However, this situation did not last long. I became member of Palestinian National council for the first time three years before this speech. Palestinian immigrants and deportes parliament. I felt like i had found my homeland again and i had to fight to reach it. ولی به عنوان یک روشن فکر متعهد. گرایش داره به نهضت آزادی بخش فلسطین. What do you think of when you think of an arab . Somebody with towel on their head, camel and maybe some sand. Want to throw a pyramid in there . Well, guess whos here, right on our stage, this itself would not have been possible not long ago. Edward saied joints as professor of english, clummy university, member of the palestinian of the Palestine National council, to which Umbrella Organization belongs, the p. I spoke loudly about the reality of the palestinian problems and i even had to speak in front of pro israel jews, i think the main point is if you want to negotiate some kind of peace with justice, you cannot legislate in advance whos going to represent whom. The the israeli position and the position of the adl is that we are not only entitled to decide what to talk about, but were going to decide who to talk to, now the palestinians have their own representatives. And thats theyve never found, nobody has found any other representatives for the palest except the plo, after all it was the Israeli Government a that dispossessed that destroyed labanon in 1982, killed, هولوکاست یک مسئله بزرگی تو اروپا شده و از این ابزار استفاده کرده که مظلومیت برای اسرائیل ایجاد کردی. Try as he or she might, a palestinian find it very difficult, i wont say impossible, but i think its very, very hard, and in this i think palestinis are like most people, its very hard for the palestinian who feels himself or herself, the victim of injustice by jews, israeli jews, to sympathize or imaginatively incorporate the history of the holocaus and say, well, we forgive them for what they did, i mean after all they suffered this enormous, this this colossal historical tragedy the jews did, and the fact that they are evicting us from our territory, that they are placing us under occupation, that theyre treating us as thirdclass citizens, that they are killing our people, that they are confining us to camps, etc. Etc. Etc. , we understand. Look, i would, nobody can understand that, mean, you can, you can grasp the first fact, the fact of the holocaust, but you cant translate that into your own um, my mind has always been busy with this question, what is the reason behind the occupation of palestine and the western support for the occupier . In my opinion, this issue is rooted in the way the west looks at the east and the palestinian cause emerges in this point of view. This war between peoples, a war which has been fought for generations, and which concerns the whole world, is i believe, inextricably entangled with a phantom. Dreams and ambitions of the west to rule and possess the east. Theres also a question of how zionism conceives arabs and it has become current for arabs to call zionism a racial, racist ideology. Now what patrick seal is the basis of that charge . Well, i know its a charge which created outrage when it was first raised, i think they tried to donism as a racist thing, but you see unfortunately. I think there is something in it, i mean much as one hates to say so, but if you just look at some of the statements say of a man like like begin, i mean, hes always ranting about jewish blood and how precious it is, with the implication of course that arab blood is much less precious, he says things like palestinians are animals walking on two pores, or you remember his chief of staff at the time, raful aitan talked about palestinians being cockroaches and the bottle, it is the default option of europeans that the perfect and normal man is. در جنگ پیروز بشید طرح به عنوان نابودی دهکده ها وییتنامی دارید اصلاً اسم به طرح این بود که دهکده ها چون ممکنه پناهگاه وییت ها یعنی جبه آزادی بخشی ویتنام باشه باید از صفح روز محو بشه گفتن خب اینجا انسان های بیگاهی کشته میشن جمله مشهوری داره گفت جان آسیایی ارزش جان انسان را نداره آسیای. He would say he said if what concern is it of ours . Now that it seems to me is an absolutely racial remark. In another way, id like to reformulate and say that had there been in the United States, for example, immigration laws which said that only white anglosaxon protestants can emigrate and get a citizenship, then you as a jew and as a palestinion would object. Now the same law, inverse formulation of the same law which says that only. الظلم والتشويه لتتعرض له قضيه الشعب الفلسطيني, so for him, the writing of orientalism was actually shaped by his engagement with the question of palestine. My years of research in literally and historical texts led me to the theory that i presented. همه چیز واقعاً از آخر ده 1970 شروع شد که در اون سال کتاب شاخص ادوارد سعید به اسم اورنتالیزم چاپ میشه. بقدر اروح المدرسه طيب. And make them together Work Together in order to build up menagis anak lebih. Yeah, show you. The oslo accords broke down the interfather, arafat practically agreed with everything, but he didnt get anything in return. Palestinians had acquired very little out of the slow accords and if anything it had simply further entrenched. The realities on the ground are such that uh, we are we have acceptedly have signed on the dotted line to something that effectively guarantees the israeli occupation. For the forceeable future. What is really makes palestine central is that it is the last color. I was a professor at university, so i tried to talk about the rights of my nation and the israeli oppression of palestinians by writing books, articles or giving speeches and participating in debates. My name is, my name is dr. Gasan abutta, i a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, i a british palestinian volunteer with mecintier, this morning, upon the request of ahli hospital administration. I moved from shifer hospital to ahli hospital to help out with the treatment of some of the wounded as the number of wounded had exceeded the number of beds in the hospital. We had been operating all day and had made the decision that in order to continue operating on these patients, i would stay behind, and sleep at the hospital. In the evening, after we finished. The surgeries we heard a screach following by huge explosion, as a result of the explosion, part of the ceiling of the operating room fell, as i moved towards the outside of the operating room and towards the emergency department, we could see bodies of children piled up, both dead, not moving and wounded, there were several who had been amputated, tended to a man who had his leg brown off at the thigh, we then carried on trying to resuscitate the patients, when the ambulance came, i decided to help out by carrying one of the wounded who had had the shrapnel in his neck into the ambulance as i was walking towards. The ambulance, there were parts of b, there were body parts everywhere, and there were bodies piled up in the courtyard of the hospital. I then got into the ambulance and escorted the patient back to shifa hospital. This morning when i drove into the hospital, i noted how full the hospital courtyard was with families who had soft refuge. Inside the hospital thinking that it would be safe haven. Its these very same families who are now either dead or critically wounded a result of the. Attack, this is a core crime that the world has seen coming. Israel has been warning the entire world that it was going to attack palestinian hospitals and it did exactly that. Every western politician who has declared unconditional support for israels war effort on the Palestinian People has their. Hands, has the blood of these children on their hands, that unconditional support is what led us to this massacre. The impunity that israel believes it has from its western allies is what has led to this massacre. Other country feels the impunity to target hospitals and get away with it. What happened today is a war crime. And if the israelis get away with it again, then more war crimes will be committed and more hospitals will be targeted. The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de Facto Authority of israel. May 15th, 1948. The beginning of arab Israeli Regime war. Arab leaders gathered at the chhartom summit and said, no peace with israel, no negotiations with israel, no recognition of israel. This documentary describes the behind the scenes process of the arab israeli war, suas crisis, sixday war and yom kipor war. Palessing officials in gaza israels dropped more than 12,000 tons of explosives on the besieg territory as death. From the regime strikes purches 6, you also says this complicit and brutal massacre of palestinians in gaza by providing military and Logistical Support to israel. Meanwhile hamos ages massive rocket attack targeting televive and several other israelly cities in retaliation for regimes bombard