I tweeted about Edward Said's stance on the Kosovo and Gulf wars earlier today. Was looking for this paper but couldn't find it.
Here it is now: https://twitter.com/DandiaAsad/status/1063262095293247488

Edward Said was so committed to opposing US imperialism that in his analysis, any military action the US took was automatically imperialist. In both wars, he ignored the question of what should be done about the plight of Kuwaitis and Kosovar Albanians.

Rather, he only engaged with abstracted notions of imperialism and fascism. As the Kuwaitis suffered under a dehumanising occupation and as the Kosovar Albanians faced genocide, Said chose to "reject" both fascism and "imperialism".

While he regularly repeated that he opposes fascism as much as imperialism, he attempted to downplay the crimes of Saddam and Milosevic, going so far as to cast doubt on Saddam's use of chemical weapons, which was an established fact at the time.

He also repeatedly placed the blame of the expulsion of Kosovar Albanians from Kosovo on NATO, completely ignoring the comprehensive documentation of their ethnic cleansing at the hands of Serbian forces prior to the NATO intervention.

I wonder what would have been Said's position if any foreign power had intervened in the Israel-Palestinian conflict on the side of the Palestinians. Would he have rejected this intervention and insisted that the intervention is as abhorrent as Israeli occupation?

I also wonder what his position on the Syrian conflict would have been if he was alive. Would he have been one of those leftist figures who have consistently downplayed Assad's crimes? Would he have advocated for USA to leave the region and abandon the Rojavan Kurds to the

Turkish and Syrian forces? Considering his positions on the Gulf and Kosovo wars, more than probably.