what they're showing, if you take all these political debates together, if you sort of mash up

the best of the right and the best of the left, is you're showing that there is actually a

constituency for all of those things at the same time, for anti-imperialism and for solidarity at home.

And I wish that we could have a political force emerge that would actually represent that.

Welcome everybody to a new episode of the Matasi Street podcast.

We are delighted this time to be joined by our old friend Ali Abu Naimi, who's the director of the

electronic intifada and has been extraordinarily active over the past, not just the past two

years, the past many years, but especially the past two years in helping to deconstruct

Western media misrepresentations of what's happening in Palestine as well as, of course, news on the ground from Gaza and elsewhere in Palestine.

Ali is also the author of two important books, one country, a bold proposal to end the Israeli-Palestinian impasse, which was published in 2007, I think,

and also the Battle for Justice in Palestine published in 2014.

So, Ali, welcome to the podcast.

It's a real pleasure to have you here with us.

Thank you, Sari.

Thank you all.

It's a pleasure to be with you.

Ali, we thought we would begin by just asking you about the path you took to establishing or helping to establish

electronic intifada 20, what is it, 24, 25 years ago almost, and just like how you got

there. I remember from the days in Chicago a website you had called Ali's Bitter Pill, I think

it was, where you did the deconstruction of Western media,

misrepresentations and falsifications that you've continued ever since. But just tell us about

your path to EI, basically, and what you see the role of EI as these days. Thank you. Yes, it has

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