The Pastor

Ali Abunimah has a useful piece today on Obama and Jeremiah Wright where he shows how Obama understands the history of the relationship between Israel and South Africa and related Jewish/Black conflict in the United States.

An aside: at the beginning, Abunimah recounts how Obama criticizes Wright for having "a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam." I thought Abunimah was surely about to criticize Obama from the left for saying that. But he seemed to have left him off the hook for it; I think he's still rooting for him, sort of.