"To say the least, Rashid Khalidi is a controversial fellow. To begin with, although Khalidi denies it, Martin Kramer has unearthed powerful evidence suggesting that Khalidi was at one time an official spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization. Also, in the years immediately prior to his friendship with Obama, Khalidi was a leading opponent of the first Gulf War, which successfully reversed Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. According to Kramer, Khalidi condemned that action as an American “colonial war,” insisting that before we could end Saddam’s occupation of Kuwait, we would first have to end Israel’s supposedly equivalent occupation of the West Bank and Gaza....
While we don’t know exactly when their friendship began, Khalidi was reportedly present at the famous 1995 kickoff reception for Obama’s first political campaign, held at the home of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
Video Obtained By LA Times Shows Democratic Nominee Partying With Former PLO Spokesman
WCBSTV ^ Posted on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 1:59:40 AM by Chet 99
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118267/posts
RED ALERT Tip: Two quotes from the Obama-Khalidi videotape
Doug Ross @ Journal ^ | October 29, 2008 | Doug Ross
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/10/red-alert-tip-why-times-wont-release.html
Has Obama Turned on Israel? (Dershowitz in Denial)
wall street journal ^ | * JULY 2, 2009 | ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124649366875483207.html
Posted on Thursday, July 02, 2009 12:45:29 AM by Mount Athos
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283866/posts
Obama move alarms Israel supporters (obama loves Hamas)
LA Times ^ | 4/26/09 | Paul Richter http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2238538/posts
“...If [she] finds this the equivalent of showing no mercy to the apostate, then I’d say she has the problem of moral equivalence, and would do well to meditate on the principle behind these rabbinic writings, “those who show mercy to the cruel will be cruel to the merciful.” Few sayings embody the dilemma of the kind-hearted liberal today, especially those whose hearts go out to Hamas and the people who voted for them.”
Source: Click here and scroll to the bottom:
http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2009/04/16/harvards-muslim-chaplain-notes-the-wisdom-of-killing-apostates/
MORAL EQUIVALENCE The “we are just as bad as… or worse than them” mentality
http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/q/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2238538/posts?page=10#10
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2238538/posts?page=7#7
42 posted on Thursday, July 02, 2009 9:17:19 AM by Matchett-PI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2283866/posts?page=42#42
Obama’s Friend Joins Campaign To Raise Funds For New Gaza-bound Ship
usanewsweek.com ^ | 7/26/10 | Staff
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2559109/posts
A fund raising campaign has been launched in the United States to garner financial support to purchase a ship in an attempt to breach the Israeli naval blockade at the Gaza Strip as early as autumn. The ship will be named after President Barack Obama’s popular book “The Audacity of Hope”.
Columbia University history professor {and Hamas supporter} Rashid Khalidi, a renowned critic of Israel and also a good friend of Obama, has joined the campaign.