“they see them as underdogs in the superpower plays that cast Israel as the bully, supported by billions of dollars from the U.S. government and a very activist Jewish-American community.”
I don’t think that is the issue. It’s a dollars and cents issue for them. They view it in terms of guns v. butter. If the government spends a lot of money helping Israel, then that means the government has less money for government handouts. And naturally, like the Europeans, the black community wants to pander to the side that has the money, ie. the Arabs.
Conservatives tend to think of the issue in terms of principle, and in terms of security, which the liberal blacks don’t care about.
Gadhafi has been tied to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obamas spiritual adviser for more than 23 years.
The Libyan dictator also has financed and strongly supported the Nation of Islam and its leader, Louis Farrakhan. Obama has ties to Farrakhan and his controversial group.
http://nation.foxnews.com/rev-wright/2011/02/23/qaddafi-has-been-tied-rev-jeremiah-wright
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In 1984, Wright traveled to Libya with Louis Farrakhan to meet the enemy of America back then, [Gadhafi].
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352870,00.html
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Rev. Dr. Jeremiah ["Them Jews"] Wright and Dr. William Ayers
are greeted by Rebekah Levin with the Committee
for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
(Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune / May 17, 2009)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ayers_wrightmay18,0,6689521.story
ML/NJ
Most likely the Black Americans who identify with the Palis do so because of the enormous propaganda inflicted on them by the many leftist black intellectuals (like the scribbler who wrote this article) and the black muslims. American Jews have always defended and supported Black interests, not always the best interests for the country as a whole, and it didn’t stop after 1965. Another typically dishonest column by a leftist.
The Palestinians have acted stupidly.