Arab bloggers - as well as Arab states - are divided over their support or censure of Lebanon’s Shiite militant group Hezbollah. Chat rooms and forums show mixed reactions on the current fighting in Lebanon and Israel. The ‘Electronic Lebanon’ website - created by the bloggers behind ‘Electronic Intifada, a site on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - [has been visited by 270,000 people since June 27th] and posts reports from the Lebanese. “My entire life has changed only because someone decided that it could change: Who gave them the right to do that?” complains Zena el-Khalil. Bilal, another web surfer, supports the cause of Hezbollah while a Lebanese blogger nicknamed Miss Levantine said she had initially thought the conflict would only last a couple of days. Read more about Middle East: Bloggers Divide over Hezbollah
EI’s Ali Abunimah appeared on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City on Monday, July 17th, to discuss the Israeli attacks on Lebanon and the international reaction as the Lebanese civilian deaths toll rose to 200. The program is a teach-in on the nature and causes of the ever widening crisis between Israel, Palestine and Lebanon. Other guests included Samia Halaby, Maymanah Farhat, Phillis Bennis, Stephen Zunes, Naseer Aruri, Josh Ruebner, Laila El-Haddad and Jamal Dajani. Read more about EI's Ali Abunimah on WBAI 99.5 FM, New York City
Electronic Intifada cofounder Laurie King lived in Beirut, Lebanon from 1993-1998. For the first two years, she taught the “Cultural Studies III” course at the Lebanese American University (LAU) and, in 1995, became Editor in Chief of Al-Ra’ida, the quarterly journal of the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World at LAU. She has written for the Daily Star (Lebanon), and worked with the Arab Resource Center for the Popular Arts, which undertakes arts therapy with children and teenagers in Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon. Laurie was interviewed by Don Bustany on the Middle East in Focus program on KPFK, California, about current events in Lebanon. Read more about EI's Laurie King on KPFK Pacifica
EI’s Ali Abunimah appeared on “Beneath the Surface with Jerry Quickley” on Los Angeles Pacifica outlet KPFK on Thursday, July 13th, to discuss the Israeli attack on Lebanon. On July 13th, Israeli attacks on Lebanon caused massive destruction at the Beirut International Airport, attacked key Lebanese infrastructure points, and killed 50 Lebanese civilians. “Beneath the Surface with Jerry Quickley” airs Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 5 PM - 6 PM on KPFK, hosted by performance poet Quickley. Read more about EI on KPFK to discuss Israel's invasion of Lebanon
On July 13th, Flashpoints Radio hosted Electronic Intifada cofounder, Ali Abunimah, for a discussion of the Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Today, Israeli fighter jets stuck deep inside Lebanon, killing over 50 including 15 children and a family of ten. “Israel is complaining now that its sovereign territory was violated by Hizballah… When did Israel ever respect the sovereign territory of any of its neighbors? Israel occupied Southwest Syria. There are 30,000 Israeli settlers cultivating wine and enjoying the Golan Heights and claiming God gave it to them.” Flashpoints News Radio broadcasts every weekday at 5:00PM Pacific Time on 94.1 FM, from Berkeley, California. Interviewer: Dennis Bernstein. Read more about EI's Ali Abunimah speaks about the Israeli attacks on Lebanon
A powerful tool [television] may be, but the challenge for any foreign news organization will be to gain credibility in an area where distrust for Western policies is deep-rooted and flourishing — and where the airwaves are already brimming with alternatives. “There’s a real cacophony of media in the region. Even poor neighborhoods in Damascus have satellite dishes,” said Ali Abunimah, who runs Electronic Intifada (electronicintifada.net) to promote Palestinian views on the Middle East conflict. “Even in a country as restricted as Syria, there is enormous access to media from elsewhere,” said the 34-year-old Jordanian based in Chicago. “That challenges the U.S. stereotype of a controlled media where people don’t know any better.” Read more about Foreign media scramble to win over Arab viewers
On June 29th, Flashpoints Radio hosted Electronic Intifada cofounder, Ali Abunimah, for a discussion of the continuing criminal Israeli attacks in Gaza and Israel’s kidnapping of democratically-elected Palestinian leaders. While insisting that the capture of an occupation soldier after dozens of Palestinian civilian deaths is an act of terrorism justifying destruction of infrastructure in Gaza, Israeli has kidnapped scores of Palestinian officials in an outrageous and brazen criminal act. Flashpoints News Radio broadcasts every weekday at 5:00PM Pacific Time on 94.1 FM, from Berkeley, California. Interviewer: Nora Barrows-Friedman. Read more about EI speaks about Gaza Invasion on Flashpoints Radio
Israeli forces have invaded the Gaza Strip for the first time since withdrawing ten months ago. Israel says it launched the raid to recover a soldier captured by Palestinian militants. The strikes came just hours after Fatah and Hamas agreed on a document to implicitly recognize Israel within its 1967 borders. We go to Gaza to speak with Palestinian physician Dr. Mona El-Farra and we get comment from former Israeli foreign minister Shlomo Ben Ami and Palestinian activist Ali Abunimah. Read more about Gaza Invasion: EI co-founder and Shlomo Ben Ami on Democracy Now
EI’s Ali Abunimah was a guest on Chicago Public Radio’s Worldview program on 9 June 2006 to discuss current events in Palestine, including Israel’s massacre of Palestinian civilians on a beach in the occupied Gaza Strip, and the controversy over a referendum called by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Read more about Audio: EI's Abunimah discusses Gaza massacre, Abbas referendum on Chicago Public Radio
Flashpoints Radio hosts Ali Abunimah of electronicIntifada.net for a discussion of “Internal Strife and Continued Attacks in Occupied Palestine.” The referendum called by Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas is supposedly meant to gain public endorsement for the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel in all the territories occupied in 1967, as set out in a plan agreed by senior Hamas and Fatah leaders held in Israeli prisons. Read more about EI speaks about Internal Palestinian Strife on Flashpoints Radio
