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BREAKING: Devastating Video Discovery-- Obama Associate Talks About His Pro-Palestinian Background
The Real Democrat Party ^ | 06/03/08 | Gateway Pundit

Posted on 06/03/2008 6:11:59 PM PDT by coffee260

Palestinian activist, Ali Abunimah, discussed Barack Obama’s overnight switch from Pro-Palestinian activist to supporter of Israel.

FOX News released this segment of the interview on Special Report with Brit Hume: video link



There is more of this video interview at Democracy Now!

Ali Abunimah is the co-founder of the online Pro-Palestinian publication The Electronic Intifada and the author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse.

Here is part of the transcript from the interview with Democracy Now from January:

AMY GOODMAN: Ali Abunimah, I wanted to ask you about the candidates in the United States. You’re speaking to us from Chicago, so let’s start with Barack Obama. The stances of the presidential Democratic and Republican candidates on the Israel-Palestine conflict. I can’t remember when in a debate they were asked about the mounting crisis there.

ALI ABUNIMAH: I don’t know if they’ve been asked in a debate, but whenever they have been asked, they have all gone out of their way to express full support for what Israel is doing. Barack Obama is not distinguished from the rest of the pack, except by for how far he has moved to try to appease AIPAC and pro-Israel movements.

I remember, Amy—I knew Barack Obama for many years as my state senator—when he used to attend events in the Palestinian community in Chicago all the time.

I remember personally introducing him onstage in 1999, when we had a major community fundraiser for the community center in Deheisha refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. And that’s just one example of how Barack Obama used to be very comfortable speaking up for and being associated with Palestinian rights and opposing the Israeli occupation. And just yesterday, he apparently sent a letter to Zalmay Khalilzad, the US ambassador at the UN, to urge the US not to allow any resolution to pass criticizing Israel and saying how Israel was forced to impose this barbaric medieval siege on Israel.

None of the other candidates in the mainstream have spoken out for Palestinian rights. The only ones who have taken forceful positions opposing the current US strategy are Dennis Kucinich on the Democratic side and Ron Paul on the Republican side. The mainstream are all perfectly comfortable with the war crimes that Israel is committing, no matter how much they talk about human rights elsewhere.


Barack and Michelle Obama and Professor Edward Said at a May 1998 Arab community event in Chicago at which Edward Said gave the keynote speech. (Bill Baar’s West Side)

The Electronic Intifada reported earlier on how Obama suddenly learned to love Israel.

More… Shocker!! Obama took the endorsement of the Pro-PLO Socialist Party.

h/t: Gateway Pundit



TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1999; abunimah; aliabunimah; democratparty; elections; electronicintefada; electronicintifada; hillaryblackmail; obama
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To: coffee260
Devastating Video Discovery-- Obama Associate Talks About His Pro-Palestinian Background

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41 posted on 06/03/2008 6:41:35 PM PDT by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
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To: coffee260

Is this the start of the Clinton Machine’s “Obama Dump?”


42 posted on 06/03/2008 6:44:21 PM PDT by onemiddleamerican
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To: tsmith130
Brit and Carl Cameron played it on Special Report tonight.

I missed this segment. I only caught the Panel gushing over Barry--what a guy, only 46, what a campaign, what an achievement...
43 posted on 06/03/2008 6:47:35 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: i_dont_chat
"May I please remind you that Obama is half-black and half-white. He is not black.

Okay!

We'll just call him Halfrican!

44 posted on 06/03/2008 6:48:07 PM PDT by oswegodeee (Dee) ( Born in the South and raised in a G_D centered home)
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To: mware
Mr Edward Said on vacation in Israel

Mr & Mrs Obama and Mrs & Mrs Said at dinner.


45 posted on 06/03/2008 6:48:13 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: warsaw44

http://kennethelamb.blogspot.com/2008/02/barak-obama-questions-about-ethnic.html

excerpt:

Here is the truth about Mr. Obama’s name, and his father’s ancestors:

True Negro tribal members of western Kenya where his father was born have Christian names, not Arabic. His father’s decision to name him with an Arabic name is a matter of his father establishing his ethnic identity in Africa - it is done deliberately to separate him from the African tribes. He may live among them, but he is not one of them. His father’s message is that he is Arabic, not Negro.

Many will find these truths unsettling. I’m often asked, “But I thought his father was Kenyan. How could Mr. Obama not be African-American, how could his ethnic composition be so Arabic?”

The definitive clue to that answer is to look at his name, his father’s name, and the names of all his ancestors on his father’s side. They are all Arabic.

Researching his roots reveal that on his father’s side, he is descended from Arab slave traders. They operated under an extended grant from Queen Victoria, who gave them the right to continue the slave trade in exchange for helping the British defeat the Madhi Army in southern Sudan and the Upper Nile region. Funny how circular is history; now the British again face the Madhi Army, albeit this time Shiite, not Sunni, as in nineteenth century Sudan.

But telling America’s black community that while their ancestors were breaking the shackles of slavery, Mr. Obama’s ancestors were placing those shackles upon their wrists would hardly play as an Oprah Winfrey best-seller.


46 posted on 06/03/2008 6:51:44 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
He can run, but he can’t hide.

I just hope that the homespun Jews get the picture loud and clear. I for one will get it out there to as many of my Jewish friends as I can. Some are pretty leary of him but say they will probably will vote for him if nominated! Jeeze, I want to knock a knot on their heads and say what are you drinkin? Well, if elected he will throw Israel under that much crowded bus of his. IMHO

47 posted on 06/03/2008 6:52:49 PM PDT by oswegodeee (Dee) ( Born in the South and raised in a G_D centered home)
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To: keats5

48 posted on 06/03/2008 6:54:35 PM PDT by oldleft
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To: coffee260

I can never forget the sweetest sound in the morning is the Islamic call to prayer said Barek Obama.

Yep! the Manchurian Canidate.

Working for Islam 2008


49 posted on 06/03/2008 6:55:58 PM PDT by ncfool (Savage said that Islam is a Peaceful religion. Your very peaceful after they slit your throat!)
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To: Randy Larsen

Many of us knew he was a terrorist supporter long ago. But no media except Fox is going to report this stuff.. He is being protected big time. The media is beside itself with joy on this night!!!!


50 posted on 06/03/2008 6:56:48 PM PDT by ladyinred
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To: coffee260
I heard about this. More anti-American stuff -- unelect this man.


51 posted on 06/03/2008 6:57:09 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: coffee260

BUMP and Bookmarked


52 posted on 06/03/2008 7:10:38 PM PDT by angelsonmyside
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To: Hildy

I listened to McCain’s speech and it was fine — except someone really needs to tell him to speak louder and with some fire.


53 posted on 06/03/2008 7:13:09 PM PDT by varina davis
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To: oldleft
>>>>

Brah, sh*t was SO cash...

54 posted on 06/03/2008 7:18:58 PM PDT by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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To: LouisianaJoanof Arc

>I read on some blog that Obama is 50% white/12% black/ 38% Arab. I will try to find it and post it.<

I hope you can find it. I saw that, too. His middle name isn’t Hussein for nothing.


55 posted on 06/03/2008 7:28:41 PM PDT by Paperdoll ( on the cutting edge)
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To: i_dont_chat; All

half-honkey, all donkey!


56 posted on 06/03/2008 7:33:39 PM PDT by notdownwidems (Vote Republican! We're 1/10 of 1% better than the other guys!)
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To: Red_Devil 232

I think you should probably go with your Democrat friends!


57 posted on 06/03/2008 7:42:44 PM PDT by Texas4ever (Anything off the dollar menu :))
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A Devastating Bombshell on Obama Will be Dropped Tomorrow
(”Whitey” video update)
No Quarter | 6/3/2008 | Larry Johnson
Posted on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 03:26:12 PM by mojito
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025418/posts


58 posted on 06/03/2008 7:51:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: dynachrome

Obama supporters won’t be, either. This is a resume enhancer for him...


59 posted on 06/03/2008 7:53:09 PM PDT by Little Ray (I'm a Conservative. But I can vote for John McCain. If I have to. I guess.)
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To: warsaw44

http://genealogy.about.com/od/aframertrees/p/barack_obama.htm

http://genealogy.about.com/od/aframertrees/p/obama_two.htm

http://genealogy.about.com/od/aframertrees/p/obama_three.htm

http://genealogy.about.com/od/aframertrees/p/obama_four.htm

Barack Obama’s parents are:

Father: Barack Obama Sr. (1935-1982)
Mother: Stanley Ann Dunham (1942-1995)

Paternal Grandfather: Hussein Onyango Obama (1895-1979)
Paternal Grandmother: Akumu

Maternal Grandfather: Stanley Armour Dunham (1918-1992)
Maternal Grandmother: Madelyn Lee Payne (1922-LIVING)


60 posted on 06/03/2008 8:23:27 PM PDT by i_dont_chat (The elephant has fallen and it can't get up.)
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