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Ali Abunimah
Palestinian author, media voice, founder of Electronic Intifada
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one country
A bold proposal to end the Israeli-Palestinian impasse
Saturday, Oct 14, 2pm
St. Paul's United Methodist Church
405 S. Tenth St, San Jose
Suggested donation $5 - $15. Students Free!
(no one turned away for lack of funds)
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THE BOOK
Clear-eyed,
sharply reasoned, and compassionate, One
Country [Henry Holt and Co. Metropolitan Books, 10/2006] proposes a radical alternative:
to revive an old and neglected idea of one state
shared by two peoples. Ali
Abunimah shows how the two are by now
so intertwined—geographically and economically—that
separation cannot lead to the security Israelis
need or the rights Palestinians must have. He reveals the bankruptcy of the two-state approach, takes on the
objections and taboos that stand in the way of a binational solution,
and demonstrates that sharing the territory will bring benefits for
all. The absence of other workable options has only lead to ever
greater extremism; it is time, Abunimah suggests, for Palestinians and
Israelis to imagine a different future and a different relationship. [Source: Henry Holt and Co., Publishers]
THE AUTHOR
The Jordanian-American son of Palestinian refugees, Ali Abunimah
is the creator and editor of the Electronic Intifada,(EI), electronicintifada.net , an internet gateway about Palestine and the Palestine - Israeli conflict, and
more recently of Electronic Iraq. A graduate of Princeton University,
he is a frequent speaker and commentator on the Middle East, writing
for the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. He is also a frequent commentator on KPFA. He lives in Chicago,
Illinois.
EI is a
not-for-profit, independent publication committed to comprehensive
public education on the question of Palestine, the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, and the economic, political, legal, and human dimensions of
Israel's 39-year occupation of Palestinian territories. EI provides a
needed supplement to mainstream commercial media representations of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Launched 23 February 2001 as a pioneering online resource for media
analysis, criticism, and activism, EI has progressively expanded its
scope into new arenas: reference materials, live reporting, editorials,
arts coverage, and satire, with the aim of presenting an accessible,
credible, and responsible Palestinian narrative of developments on the
ground to the American public and international community.
Although EI addresses the prevailing pro-Israeli slant in US media
coverage by offering information from a Palestinian
perspective, views on the conflict are based firmly on universal
principles of
international law and human rights conventions, and our reporting is
built on a solid foundation of documented evidence and careful
fact-checking.
[Source: electronicintifada.net]
St Paul's Methodist Church is at the intersection of 10th St and San Salvador St., in downtown San Jose. See a map here.
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