President Obama's first call 'was to President Abbas'

London Times ^ | January 22, 2009

[Steelfish]

From The Times January 22, 2009 President Obama's first call 'was to President Abbas'

President Obama placed the Middle East at the forefront of his first hours in office yesterday as he sought to make good on his promise of “ushering in a new era of peace”. In a flurry of telephone calls from the Oval Office, he reached out to leaders in the region and vowed to engage immediately in pursuit of a permanent Arab-Israeli settlement.

The spokesman for President Abbas revealed that Mr Obama had told the Palestinian leader that their conversation was his first with a foreign statesman since taking office.

[444Flyer]

Heeerrreeee weeeee goooooo!

[nutmeg]

Great post (#20). I’m not impressed by B. Hussein Obama either...

[Jeb21]

Obama: I’m in.
Abbas: Perfect. All according to plan.

[KingofZion]

my thinking exactly. abbas is president of....a terrorist organization?

not really the right message to send, would have been smarter to call mubarek. but then again he is now getting advice from hillary....

[PhilDragoo]

Brainchild of the KGB

As Ion Mihai Pacepa, onetime director of the Romanian espionage service (DIE), later explained, the PLO was conceived at a time when the KGB was creating “liberation front” organizations throughout the Third world. Others included the National Liberation Army of Bolivia, created in 1964 with help from Ernesto “Che” Guevara, and the National Liberation Army of Colombia, created in 1965 with help from Fidel Castro. But the PLO was the KGB’s most enduring achievement.

In 1964, the first PLO Council, consisting of 422 Palestinian representatives handpicked by the KGB, approved the Soviet blueprint for a Palestinian National Charter—a document drafted in Moscow—and made Ahmad Shukairy, the KGB’s agent of influence, the first PLO chairman. The Romanian intelligence service was given responsibility for providing the PLO with logistical support. Except for the arms, which were supplied by the KGB and the East German Stasi, everything, according to Ion Pacepa, “came from Bucharest. Even the PLO uniforms and the PLO stationery were manufactured in Romania free of charge, as a ‘comradely help.’ During those years, two Romanian cargo planes filled with goodies for the PLO landed in Beirut every week.”

The PLO came on the scene at a critical moment in Middle East history. At the Khartoum conference held shortly after the Six-Day war, the defeated and humiliated Arab states confronted the “new reality” of an Israel that seemed unbeatable in conventional warfare. The participants of the conference decided, among other things, to continue the war against Israel as what today would be called a “low intensity conflict.” The PLO’s Fatah forces were perfect to carry out this mission.

The Soviets not only armed and trained Palestinian terrorists but also used them to arm and train other professional terrorists by the thousands. The International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (CPSU), the Soviet Security Police (KGB), and Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU) all played major roles in this effort. From the late 1960s onwards, moreover, the PLO maintained contact with other terror groups—some of them neo-Nazi and extreme right-wing groups—offering them support and supplies, training and funding.

The Soviets also built Moscow’s Patrice Lumumba People’s Friendship University to serve as a base of indoctrination and training of potential “freedom fighters” from the Third world. More specialized training in terrorism was provided at locations in Baku, Odessa, Simferopol, and Tashkent. Mahmoud Abbas, later to succeed Yassir Arafat as head of the PLO, was a graduate of Patrice Lumumba U, where he received his Ph.D. in 1982 after completing a thesis partly based on Holocaust denial.

The Communist Roots of Palestinian Terror By David Meir-Levi

[444Flyer]

Getting busy destroying the fabric of our nation.

1. Rename America a Christian and Muslim nation
2. Assist Gitmo Jihadists
3. Planning to overturn DOMA
4. Deface White House website
5. Sell out Israel

It's only been 24 hours. What am I forgetting?

[444Flyer]

Now let’s see if by peace he destroys many.

[piasa]

Somebody remind me just how it was that these Palestinians are so important in the first place?

They give lots of untraceable jewelry to Hillary Clinton.

Apparently that's VERY important. Probably has a lot to do with all the drugs passing through Lebanon, too.

[ETL]

“The Communist Roots of Palestinian Terror By David Meir-Levi”

Excellent article. Thanks.

[Polarik]

Hey, Israel! Obamam sends his regards.

[444Flyer]

The above pic is appropriate don't you think?

[LucyT]

Class shows, doesn’t it.

[Albertafriend]

I saw that too and I was very disappointed that it was left there. I thought it was a very beautiful rug and I wanted Bush to take it as a special piece of the WH that could be his for the rest of his life.

[celtic gal]

With the millions and millions spent on the extravaganza, one would think 0bama would have set aside funds for his own rug..have it in like colors if that is what switches him on but this rug belongs in the GWB Library. Maybe we should all protest...President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush have set a tone for civility and courtesy that the DemocRATS will never ever be able to match.
And yet they were treated on the 20th with unbelievable disrespect and since the departure it has not let up. This man and his lovely wife have huge shoulders to bear this kind of unrelenting insults day in and day out.

[Albertafriend]

I agree. It would be wonderful to have it put in the library. Maybe it still will be.