{"text":"In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["atheism","christianity","edward said","humility","london","palestine","religion","rushdie"],"id":4544,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"}