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Cross Country: Leaving Iraq, Engaging Iran

Rob Anderson
14 May 2007

In the Christian Science Monitor, Ali Abunimah cites the successes of South Africa’s and Ireland’s unity governments as evidence that a single Israeli-Palestinian state could work: “In both places,” he observes, “it was only when the dominant group dropped its insistence on supremacy that a political settlement could be reached. What was once unimaginable happened.”

How to Watch the War on the Web

Jefferson Morley
26 July 2006

You too can be a wartime news editor. With the ubiquity of streaming video on the Internet and advances in search engines, RSS and self-publishing tools, anyone can bypass the editorial hierarchies of Western news organizations and assemble a personal newscast of the Israeli-Hezbollah war. You can pick and choose from multiple news sources as a way to confirm your own point of view. Or you can access the many other points of view regarding a complex and deadly conflict. The point is that watching the war on the Web can give you a very different — and potentially more complete — picture of the conflict and its causes than if you rely on any one news source or perspective.

A War Between Neighbors, Seen From Their Back Yard

Howard Kurtz
24 July 2006

Even stories about the evacuation of Westerners from Lebanon have drawn partisan fire. Electronic Intifada, a Web site that “strives to bring the Palestinian narrative front and center,” says: “On Tuesday, when at least 35 Lebanese were killed … we had the BBC’s Ben Brown in Beirut giving a blow-by-blow account of every facet of the evacuation of foreign nationals in general and British nationals in particular. If anyone doubted the racism of our Western media, here it was proudly on display. Lebanese and Palestinian civilians die unnoticed by the Western media while we learn of onboard sleeping arrangements on the ship bound for Cyprus.”

After Palestinian Vote, U.S. Democracy Campaign Questioned

Jefferson Morley
17 March 2006

The United States, declared President Bush in his 2005 inaugural address, seeks to “support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.” Later this month the State Department will release it annual report on U.S. efforts to support human rights and democracy. U.S. demands for democratic behavior are inconsistent, according to two journalists of Palestinian descent who run the Electronic Intifada Web site. Ali Abunimah and Arjan El Fassed say democracy cannot take root under Israeli occupation. Palestinians continue to live “under full Israeli military dictatorship.”

EI discusses Bush-Sharon meeting on washingtonpost.com

15 April 2004

EI co-founder will discuss the decision by President Bush to openly endorse Israel’s annexation of colonies on occupied Palestinian land, and Israel’s refusal to implement Palestinian refugees’ internationally recognized right to return to their homes. You can submit questions before or during the live session from 3PM-4PM Eastern time, or you can read the transcript afterwards by clicking on the link.

Want Security? End the Occupation

Marwan Barghouti
15 January 2002

I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every other oppressed person has advocated — the right to help myself in the absence of help from anywhere else.

Web Watch: Dispatches From The Middle East

Bob Massey
21 April 2002

The Palestinian National Authority, however, links to no Israeli sites at its official Web home (www.pna.org). The Israeli Government Gateway (www.info.gov.il/eng/), meanwhile, had no links to Palestinian sites that we could find. The Electronic Intifada site (electronicintifada.net) linked to Israeli newspapers such as Haaretz (www.co.haaretz.co.il) and the Jerusalem Post (www.jpost.com); the latter, meanwhile, points to a variety of Palestinian sites, including some that appear to support terrorist groups.

EI's Ali Abunimah in washingtonpost.com Live Chat

12 June 2003

EI’s Ali Abunimah will participate in a washingtonpost.com live chat about the escalating violence between Israelis and Palestinians, on June 12 at 1 PM Eastern Time. You can send in a question beforehand, participate live, or read the transcript afterwards by clicking on the title above.

EI on Mahmoud Abbas in a WashingtonPost.com live chat

29 April 2003

The first Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, was selected on Tuesday. After a four-hour debate, Abbas and his new cabinet won with 33 votes. In his speech, he renounced terrorism and Palestinian militants. Furthermore, he stated that peace would occur only if Israel abandoned Jewish settlements and ends its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. EI cofounder Ali Abunimah participated in a WashingtonPost.com live chat on Wednesday, 30 April 2003. Read the transcript here.

EI offers a Palestinian perspective on the Israeli elections - WashingtonPost.com

29 January 2003

While Israelis go to vote on Tuesday, three million Palestinians living under Israeli control in the West Bank and Gaza Strip control will have to stay home, confined by tight Israeli travel restrictions. But the elections in which they cannot vote will have a profound impact on their lives and the future relations between Israelis and Palestinians. What do Palestinians think of the likely victory of hardliner Ariel Sharon? What is the role of Israeli Arab voters in this election. What will be the response of the Palestinian Authority and other Palestinian organizations seeking to create a Palestinian nation in the Middle East? Ali Abunimah, co-founder of Electronic Intifada and the vice president of the Arab-American Action Network, was live from Amman, Jordan on Wednesday, Jan. 29, at 11 a.m. ET, to discuss the Palestinian perspective of the Israeli elections.

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