[lbo-talk] Abunimah's comments re Obama

[Carl Remick]

>From: Seth Kulick <skulick at linc.cis.upenn.edu>
>
>(10) Bush, America and the Middle East
>
>By Ali Abunimah
>
>The Electronic Intifada
>5 November 2004
>
>http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3291.shtml
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>[..]
>
>According to the Chicago Tribune, Obama now
>says that the onus of peace in the Middle East "is on the
>Palestinian leadership, which ... must cease violence against
>Israelis and work 'to end the incitement against Israel in the Arab
>world." The unique fact about Obama's campaign is that he did not
>need to parrot the pro-Israel lobby's standard line to get elected.
>He ran effectively unopposed. Such a capable and ambitious man must
>have calculated that any hope of higher office requires that he not
>offend when it comes to Israel and its interests. This begs the
>question: If a man like Obama will not speak frankly when it comes
>to Israel, what hope is there for a change in U.S. policy coming
>from within the establishment?

Frankly, I'm pinning my hopes for change on revived interest in the works of 
Duns Scotus.

Carl