Edward Sa'id, the Columbia University Professor implicated recently for fabricating his "Palestinian" past, presented his view of America's "ceasefire" efforts in the region. Writing in Egypt's Al-Ahram, Sa'id states: "An ominous air is overtaking the Middle East, now that Ariel Sharon has come to and gone from the United States," writes Sa'id. "A striking resemblance to the period before Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon has undoubtedly occurred to anyone with a memory long enough to recall what happened then. The same war criminal, Sharon (who should soon be sharing Milosevic's fate in the Hague) came to see the then Secretary of State Alexander Haig and then went back with what he informed everyone was an American green light. Thereafter, his armies invaded Lebanon. And sure enough, he did the same thing this time with the inexperienced Colin Powell and the intellectually disadvantaged George Bush. Both those men have, in the space of less than a month, totally adopted the Israeli lie that the main problem is 'the violence,' by which it is automatically assumed that violence is what Palestinians practice while restraint is Israel's contribution."