Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the Electronic Intifada comments on his dealings with Barak Obama and bemoans the fact that Obama is currently too worried about his political future to continue to express his true feelings on the Israeli-Palestine conflict: Over the years since I first saw Obama speak I met him about half a dozen times, often at Palestinian and Arab-American community events in Chicago including a May 1998 community fundraiser at which Edward Said was the keynote speaker. In 2000, when Obama unsuccessfully ran for Congress I heard him speak at a campaign fundraiser hosted by a University of...