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...Americans and some Palestinians were displaced from their homes, he seems oblivious to the historical context of their displacement. He claims that Israel was created “as a safe haven after the atrocities of World War II.” While this may be true, the entire concept of Zionism—dating back long before the Second World War—is based on the concept that the Jewish people have a right to live in their historic homeland. When Europeans came to America, they were exercising no such right, and held none of the historical, religious...
...Native Americans were divided into hundreds of tribes. Between many of those there were disputes; many others were ignorant of each other’s existence.” He then attempts to liken this situation to that of modern-day Arabs. Cheever is apparently unaware of the concept of Pan-Arabism, which, along with Islamism, ranks as one of the strongest political trends in the Arab world today. Indeed, the religious, cultural, and ethnic diversity among Native American peoples stands in stark contrast to the religious, cultural, and ethnic uniformity of the Arab world. Here, Cheever seems...
...simple reason that they were introduced by way of colonialism. Our oil wealth allowed us to import the most expensive consumer commodities, but we could not overcome our suspicions of outside political and ideological goods: democracy, secularism, the state of law, the principle of rights and, above all, the concept of the nation-state, which was seen as a conspiracy to fragment our old empire...
...known to exist. Omar avoids the camera?not because of vanity (he is half blind, having lost the use of one eye in combat in the 1980s) nor because he wants to hide in the shadows. It's because Islam proscribes representative artwork, and Omar includes photographs in that concept. Religion is Omar's obsessive core, as I learned in my many interviews with him in Kandahar, the Taliban's hometown and Omar's heavily guarded lair. He doesn't even like his title of mullah, which means "giver of knowledge." Having been yanked out of the seminary to fight...
...Ristelhueber's Thucydidean concept of the inevitability of human conflict and violence seems to be a particularly insensitive message at a time like this. It is almost offensive to assert--whether explicitly or implicitly--that attacks that kill innocent civilians by the thousands are simply part of an immutable historical continuum. The exhibit is not upsetting for what it shows, but for the inappropriate message it offers. Even if Ristelhueber is able to chronicle one disaster after another with artistic detachment, she (and the MFA) should take into account the need at this time for emotional response and moral valuation...