Ok, maybe i was wrong, when i showed optimism for Obama and claimed that his pandering to the Zionists was only a means to an end, which would change drastically if he managed to get into the White House.

Yeah, the more i read in today’s press about Obama’s failure to condemn any aspect of the continuing Israeli settlements and human rights abuses, the more pessimistic i am about the future of Palestine.

But surely not as disappointed as, say, the likes of Ali Abunimah (see his most recent article here) or any of the other Palestinian-American intellectuals who were courted by Obama in Chicago in the early 1990’s in order for them to support his ascendency to the Senate.

I wonder what the spirit of Edward Said is thinking… ‘another one bites the Galilee dust’.

One can only hope that Said will use his post-mortem powers to perhaps enter Obama’s dreams and talk some sense into him. Please Ed, come back to us now that you are needed so!