Middle East studies in the News

How Barack Obama Learned to Love Israel [incl. Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said]

by Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada
March 4, 2007

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6619.shtml

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/5175

I first met Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama almost ten years ago when, as my representative in the Illinois state senate, he came to speak at the University of Chicago. He impressed me as progressive, intelligent and charismatic. I distinctly remember thinking 'if only a man of this calibre could become president one day.'

On Friday Obama gave a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Chicago. It had been much anticipated in American Jewish political circles which buzzed about his intensive efforts to woo wealthy pro-Israel campaign donors who up to now have generally leaned towards his main rival Senator Hillary Clinton.

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