Posted on 10/30/2008 2:08:43 AM PDT by Man50D
JERUSALEM – Sen. John McCain chaired an organization that granted substantial funding to a Palestinian research group co-chaired by Mideast professor Rashid Khalidi, a harsh critic of Israel and apologist for Palestinian terror.
The report – first carried by the Huffington Post website – comes amid harsh criticism from McCain's campaign of Sen. Barack Obama for his personal and financial ties to Khalidi.
The website documented how in the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several documented grants, including one worth about half a million dollars, to the Center for Palestine Research and Studies, or CPRS, a West Bank organization associated with Khalidi.
Unreported by the Huffington Post is that the CPRS, with which Khalidi was for a time moderately involved, is pro-Western and can be characterized as pro-Israel.
Its work has been condemned by the Palestinian leadership and by local terror groups as "Zionist propaganda."
In contrast, the Khalidi organization Obama helped fund as a board member for a nonprofit, alongside domestic terrorist William Ayers, has taken a flagrantly anti-Israel line. Khalidi's Arab American Action Network has hosted scores of Israel-bashing events, including at least one reportedly attended by Obama.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
subtitle:
But organization pro-Western, Obama supported professor’s anti-Israel efforts
“Palestinian research group” — another masquerade insurgency.
Decided not to read the article in detail?
People can be fooled by organizations which purport to be educational.
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No, I didn't, but why do you ask, based upon what I wrote?
I see. Apparently Khalidi realized his bitterness wasn’t going to get anywhere with that group.
That's how it appears.
McCain-Khalidi :association (as in guilt by); Obama-Khalidi :Alliance. (Thomas Sowell is exactly right on his word choice)
Ok so they both supported the guys work ,so then lets see the video
Leave it to Allan Colmes to run with the misrepresentation last night.
How is it that Hannity hasn’t pushed a pie in his lying face.
Yet another nightmare from the RNC’s flawed “Big Tent” approach. Continually reaching across the political and ideological aisles can never produce anything but Fifth Columnists. After Black Tuesday, the new conservative mantra has to be: No liberal. No left-leaners. Not now. Not ever. Never again.
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