The world is all the more emptier with the passing of Edward Said on Wednesday evening. Said was one of the greatest intellectuals of our time, and will long be revered for his lifelong dedication to the Palestinian cause. A memory that won't easily escape me was Said's brilliant response to Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilization" article in Foreign Affairs in the summer of 1993. Said continually provided the Left with moral clarity and factual insight into Israel-Palestine; his death should remind us that peace without justice is both undesirable and ultimately self-defeating.