Reassuring Israel

PART 1 - ANOTHER BARACK OBAMA FRIEND: Rashid Khalidi (Palestinian Activist)

Obamas relationship with Rashid Khalidi goes beyond conversation. Khalidis ties to Obama were first exposed by WND in February in a widely cited article.

According to a professor at the University of Chicago who said he has known Obama for 12 years, the Democratic presidential hopeful befriended Khalidi when the two worked together at the University. The professor spoke on condition of anonymity. Khalidi lectured at the University of Chicago until 2003 while Obama taught law there from 1993 until his election to the Senate in 2004.

Sources at the university told World Net Daily (WND) that Khalidi and Obama lived in nearby faculty residential zones and that the two families dined together a number of times. The sources said the Obamas even babysat the Khalidi children.

Khalidi in 2000 held what was described as a successful Fundraiser for Obamas failed bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, a fact not denied by Khalidi, who spoke to WND in February.

As WND reported, an ANTI-ISRAEL Arab group run by Khalidi's wife, Mona, received crucial funding from a Chicago nonprofit, the Woods Fund, for which Obama served as a board member with William Ayers (the notorious terrorist from infamous Weather Underground (VIDEO).
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In 2001, the Woods Fund, which describes itself as a group helping the disadvantaged, provided a $40,000 grant to Khalidis Arab American Action Network, or AAAN. The fund provided a second grant to the AAAN for $35,000 in 2002.

Speakers at AAAN dinners and events routinely have taken an ANTI-ISRAEL line.
The group co-sponsored a Palestinian art exhibit, titled, The Subject of Palestine, that featured works related to what some Palestinians call the Nakba or catastrophe of Israels founding in 1948.

When Khalidi departed the University of Chicago in 2003, Obama delivered an in-person testimonial at a farewell ceremony reminiscing about conversations over meals prepared by Mona Khalidi.

According to a Los Angeles Times account, Obama said his talks with the Khalidis served as consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases. It is for that reason that I am hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation ??? a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashids dinner table, but around THIS ENTIRE WORLD.

(Continued from another of my Posts below)

(Continued from another of my Posts above)

PART 2 - ANOTHER BARACK OBAMAs Friend Rashid Khalidi (Palestinian Activist)

Khalidis farewell dinner was replete with ANTI-ISRAEL speakers. One, a young Palestinian American, recited a poem in Obamas presence that accused the Israeli government of terrorism in its treatment of Palestinians and sharply criticized U.S. support of Israel, the Times reported: Another speaker, who reportedly talked while Obama was present, compared ZIONIST SETTLERS ON THE WEST BANK to Osama bin Laden.
ISRAEL A CONSTANT SORE.

Just last week, WND noted Obama termed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a "constant sore" in an interview just five days after Khalidi wrote an opinion piece in the Nation magazine in which he called the Palestinian question a RUNNING SORE.

In his piece, Palestine: Liberation Deferred, Khalidi suggests Israel carried out ETHNIC CLEANSING of Palestinians; writes Western powers backed Israels establishment due to guilt of the Holocaust; laments the Palestinian Authoritys stated acceptance of a Palestinian state ONLY in the WEST BANK, GAZA STRIP and EASTERN SECTIONS OF JERUSALEM; and argues ISRAEL SHOULD BE DISSOLVED and instead a bi-national, cantonal system should be set up in which Jews and Arabs reside.

During documented speeches and public events, Khalidi has called Israel an apartheid system in creation and a destructive RACIST state. He has multiple times implied support for Palestinian TERROR, calling SUICIDE BOMBINGS A RESPONSE TO ISRAELI AGGRESSION. He dedicated his 1986 book, Under Siege, to those who gave their lives in defense of the cause of Palestine and independence of Lebanon.

Critics assailed the book as excusing Palestinian terrorism and claim the dedication is in reference to the Palestine Liberation Organization, which at that time committed scores of anti-Western attacks and was labeled by the U.S. as a terrorist group SYMPATHY FOR THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE.

Speaking in a joint interview with WND and WABC radio, Khalidi was asked about his 2000 fundraiser for Obama. I was just doing my duties as a Chicago resident to help my local politician, Khalidi stated.

Khalidi said he supports OBAMA for president, because he is the only candidate who has EXPRESSED SYMPATHY FOR THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE.

Khalidi also LAUDED OBAMA FOR SAYING HE SUPPORTS TALKS WITH IRAN. If the U.S. can talk with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, there is no reason it cannot talk with the Iranians. Asked about Obamas role funding the AAAN, Khalidi claimed he had never heard of the Woods Fund until it popped up on a bunch of blogs a few months ago.
He terminated the call when petitioned further about his links with Obama. (WONDER WHY?). SOURCE: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=65108

This is priceless. Chris Matthews interview with David Axlerod ( uh, uh, um, um) on Obamas take on implementing the surge, and the success it has had on the Iraq war:

ON VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4vlBgh7KLg

Thank you Harley! It never fails to amaze me that when someone is truly trying to do good for our country and make it a more habitable and better place, you have the republicans and other narrow-minded invidiuals who choose to critize and attack out of fear, rather than applauding or at minimum agreeing!

At the rate of McCain's gafee's this week (which to me are not gaffe- they represent a fundamental misunderstanding of foregin policy on his part) Let's just stop calling them slip-ups, and title them with the appropriate verbiage - McCain is not a foreign policy expert , nor does he know his geography! Just becuase he served in the war, gives him no more experience than Barack in creating policy and executing them! As you can see, Barack would have a much easier time, creating these policies for the world and getting cooperation for them as evidenced by his trip this week. Wake up People!

Did you know that when Bush was elected - over 50% of the people thought he would make a great commander in chief especially when it came to foreign policy? I betcha those people wish they could take their vote of 4 and 8 years ago back in a heartbeat!!! Don't always believe the corporate reubplican media. After all they want McCain to win so that Obama won't tax them and give some of thier HUGH PROFITS to you and I - the average, everyday,middle class worker.

Vote Obama '08 and '12!!

PART 1 - BARACK OBAMAS FRIENDS : William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn (Admitted Terrorists of the Weather Underground)

Obamas Relationships Stemming from his Directorship of the WOODS FUND

* Obamas Problematic Directorship at Woods Fund with WILLIAM AYERS

Barack Obama was a director of the Woods Fund board from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002, according to the Funds website.

While the Chicago Sun Times provides a laundry list of Obamas problematic relationships (Rezko, Farrakhan, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Austan Goolsbee, list goes on), none may prove more ultimately controversial than fellow Woods Fund Directors William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.

As others have mentioned, WILLIAM (BILL) AYERS and wife BERNADINE DOHRN were once notorious members of the Weather Underground, TERRORIST BOMBERS who attempted to overthrow the United State Government. http://marathonpundit.blogspot.com/2008/02/obamas-bill-ayers-problem.html
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BpDUU3Z7dm4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMOtNHyejrU

Bill Ayers was Obamas (radical) mentor whom he has known since 1995. The Ayers were principals in Baracks first run for the State Senate. The Ayers hosted a Meet the Candidate dinner/meeting at the Ayers home. Not an attractive character for a President to hang out with and to not answer to what he learned from Ayers after all those years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV_h-XwchkY

William Ayers, quoted on Sept. 11, 2001: Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.

[Ayers and Dohrn] disappeared in 1970, after a bomb, designed to kill army officers in New Jersey, accidentally destroyed a Greenwich Village townhouse, and turned themselves into authorities in 1980. They were never prosecuted for their involvement with the 25 bombings the Weather Underground claimed; charges were dropped because of improper FBI surveillance.

I DO NOT REGRET SETTING BOMBS. I feel we did not do enough, AYERS TOLD the New York Times in 2001. http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2001/No-Regrets/

Ayers was a terrorist. His wife Bernardine Dohrn was a terrorist. (She knows and worked in the same law firm with Michelle Obama). Ayers has never offered one word of apology. He glories in it, thinks it is terrific. And that to me is not what I would call acceptable or mainstream behavior, said Dan Polsby, a former law professor at Northwestern who is now Dean of George Mason University Law School. If Obama takes a different view on that - well, OK, that is data about Obama.
SOURCE: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-problematic-directorship-woods.html

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(Continued from another of my Posts above)

PART 2 Obama was Director on Woods Funds where Investments had him associating with radical groups depicted below:

Setting aside Obamas relationship with William Ayers, the Board on which they served together deserves additional scrutiny. And, in fact, the Woods Funds INVESTMENTS appear to be quite problematic for Obama.

* Arab American Action Network (AAAN): Supports expanded rights for illegal aliens and was founded by anti-Israel professor Rashid Khalidi, former director of the PLO press agency and onetime moderator of PLO advisory committee.

AAAN views the United States as a nation wherein ARAB CITIZENS are routinely MALTREATED. To remedy this perceived societal injustice, the organization aims to challenge government policies that violate the civil, political and human rights OF THE ARAB American and ARAB immigrant community. Among these policies are DETENTIONS, DEPORTATIONS and OTHER ATTACKS on immigrants that result from Homeland Security measures!

AAANs hostile view of the JEWISH state is further manifest in the organizations reference to Israels creation in 1948 as Al Nakba ( The Catastrophe ).

Among the current luminaries of AAANs staff are (a) Vice President Ali Abunimah, who maintains the website ElectroicIntifada.com and is a Board member of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, and (b) Executive Director Hatem Abudayyeh, who has condemned the Israeli government and its military killing machine.

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* American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Radical Quaker organization that supports Americas unilateral disarmament (and that backed) the Vietnamese Communists, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro, and the PLO.

In fact, AFSC recently formed a partnership with MEChA. MEChA is one of several groups that intend to reclaim Aztlán (the southwestern portion of the United States):
The AFSC is a Chicana and Chicano student movement directly linked to Aztlán. As Chicanas and Chicanos of Aztlán, they say they are a nationalist movement of Indigenous Gente that LAY CLAIM TO THE LAND THAT IS OURS BY BIRTHRIGHT. As a nationalist movement we seek to free our people from the exploitation of an oppressive society that occupies our land. Put simply, MEChA's mission is straightforward. To overthrow the United States Government and establish a new form of government.

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SUMMARY

Put very simply, Obama must explain not only his relationship to Ayers and Dohrn, but also his SUPPORT OF RADICAL GROUPS that support the overthrow of the United States Government. The MainStreamMedia is doing us a huge disservice not focusing more on his past and fully vetting him.
SOURCE: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=65108

oops........Residential and Presidential.

MCMBC reports today: In Die Welt, the German publication, Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, R-Mich., said: "No one knows which Obama will show. Will it be the ideological, left-wing Democratic primary candidate who vowed to 'end' the war rather than win it, or the Democratic nominee who dismisses the progressing coalition victory as a 'distraction'? Will it be the American populist who has told supporters in the United States that he will demand more from our allies in Europe and get it, or the liberal internationalist hell-bent on being liked in Europe's salons?"

I learn, grow and change my world view all the time. Does that make me a flip-flop?

It is absolutely shocking to me about how much in the tank this mag and the media for Obama. So sad. Dont be surprised about voter backlash in November.

Jose....not everyone that was abandoned by their father is an ego maniac....to compare those people to Obama is an insult to all those other people....no Obama is a narcissist and egomaniac as anyone can tell when he talks about how the World will heal itself since he is nominated. He lies just like any other politician, tries to take credit for things that he didn't do, and evades any topic that doesn't show him in a positive light, and refuses to admit a mistake or err in judgment.

Look what the GOP did to a republican admirer of Obamam who worked with Obama on legislation

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See? one of the differences between Ovbamam and Bush-McCAIn is that Obama is a reader. He will more likely read the book given to him by Peres. Bush would trhou it in the trash bin and McCain would doze off and never finish it.......We need a president like Obama who is intellectually fit, physically fit and ready to command on day one.....

obama = change we can all pay for. Unless you're lazy and unwilling to work or pay taxes...then you reap the benefits of the obama campaign.