{"id":14726,"date":"2010-10-10T21:16:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T03:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14726"},"modified":"2010-10-10T21:16:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T03:16:34","slug":"ali-abunimah-board-member-of-ziad-asalis-atfp-does-millions-in-business-with-israeli-military-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14726","title":{"rendered":"Ali Abunimah: Board member of Ziad Asali&#8217;s ATFP does millions in business with Israeli military firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ali Abunimah<br \/>\n9 October 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A board member of the Washington, DC-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americantaskforce.org\/\">American Task Force on Palestine<\/a> (ATFP) is a major investor in an aerospace company that does millions  of dollars of business with an Israeli military defense contractor that  has close ties to the Israel Defense Forces and whose headquarters  occupy the land of a Palestinian village ethnically-cleansed in 1948.<\/p>\n<p>The board member, Marwan M. Atalla, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americantaskforce.org\/board_member\/marwan_m_atalla\">is described on ATFP&#8217;s website<\/a> as &#8220;President of NEST U.S.A., Inc. a privately held investment company  with investments in real estate, aviation, technology and energy. NEST  U.S.A., Inc. is part of the Near East Group, a multi-national investment  group with offices in Amman, London and Houston.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/aliabunimah.posterous.com\/board-member-of-ziad-asalis-atfp-does-million\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Abunimah 9 October 2010 A board member of the Washington, DC-based American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) is a major investor in an aerospace company that does millions of dollars of business with an Israeli military defense contractor that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14726\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3Pw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14727,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14726\/revisions\/14727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}