Guest Commentator

Ali Abunimah

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator Ali Abunimah is co-founder of The Electronic Intifada and author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse . Click here to contact Mr. Abunimah and Electronic Intifada.

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Guest Commentary

NY Times’ Jerusalem Property Makes It Protagonist In Palestine Conflict

By Ali Abunimah Guest Commentator

A photo from an Israeli mapping website shows the Qatamon house where Ghada Karmi grew up. The original house was only the ground floor. The two upper levels, bought by The New York Times in 1984, were built around the late 1970s. Karmi recalled in a 15 May 2008 interview on Democracy Now! that Erlanger…

A photo from an Israeli mapping website shows the Qatamon house where Ghada Karmi grew up. The original house was only the ground floor. The two…

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The Senator, His Pastor and the Israel Lobby

By Ali Abunimah Guest Commentator

Since his early political life in Chicago, Barack Obama was well-informed about the Middle East and had expressed nuanced views conveying an understanding that justice and fairness, not blinkered support for Israel, are the keys to peace and the right way to combat extremism. Yet for months he has been fighting the charge that he…

Since his early political life in Chicago, Barack Obama was well-informed about the Middle East and had expressed nuanced views conveying an understanding that justice and…

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