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==Quotations about Wiesel==
 
==Quotations about Wiesel==
 
Azmi Bishara is a Palestinian-Israeli, member of the Knesset, and intellectual.  This is what he had to say about Elie Wiesel:
 
Azmi Bishara is a Palestinian-Israeli, member of the Knesset, and intellectual.  This is what he had to say about Elie Wiesel:
:... and what a lovely setting for it too: against the backdrop of the rosy cliffs of Petra. Here were gathered a handful of Nobel Prize laureates who had performed not a single service for humanity. None of these had invented insulin or even aspirin, or produced great literature or made peace anywhere in the world – in fact, one of them had caused wars. It was a collection of self-obsessed narcissists, caring only about how to refine and polish their image. Prime among them was a mediocre novelist, a self-promoting racist by the name of Elie Weisel, who, regretfully, took the appalling tragedy of the death of millions of Jews in the Holocaust and reduced it to a kiosk for selling anti-Arab hatred.<br>Azmi Bishara, [http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/802/op2.htm Channelling the resistance], 6 July 2006, Al Ahram Weekly.
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:... and what a lovely setting for it too: against the backdrop of the rosy cliffs of Petra. Here were gathered a handful of Nobel Prize laureates who had performed not a single service for humanity. None of these had invented insulin or even aspirin, or produced great literature or made peace anywhere in the world – in fact, one of them had caused wars. It was a collection of self-obsessed narcissists, caring only about how to refine and polish their image. Prime among them was a mediocre novelist, a self-promoting racist by the name of Elie Weisel, who, regretfully, took the appalling tragedy of the death of millions of Jews in the Holocaust and reduced it to a kiosk for selling anti-Arab hatred.<ref>Azmi Bishara, [http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/802/op2.htm Channelling the resistance], 6 July 2006, Al Ahram Weekly.</ref>
  
 
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Quotations about Wiesel

Azmi Bishara is a Palestinian-Israeli, member of the Knesset, and intellectual. This is what he had to say about Elie Wiesel:

... and what a lovely setting for it too: against the backdrop of the rosy cliffs of Petra. Here were gathered a handful of Nobel Prize laureates who had performed not a single service for humanity. None of these had invented insulin or even aspirin, or produced great literature or made peace anywhere in the world – in fact, one of them had caused wars. It was a collection of self-obsessed narcissists, caring only about how to refine and polish their image. Prime among them was a mediocre novelist, a self-promoting racist by the name of Elie Weisel, who, regretfully, took the appalling tragedy of the death of millions of Jews in the Holocaust and reduced it to a kiosk for selling anti-Arab hatred.[1]

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  1. Azmi Bishara, Channelling the resistance, 6 July 2006, Al Ahram Weekly.