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Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Barack Obama
Los Angeles Times ^ | April 10, 2008 | Peter Wallstein

Posted on 04/11/2008 2:46:13 PM PDT by justiceseeker93

They consider him receptive despite his claear support of Israel.

CHICAGO - It was a celebration of Palestinian culture - a night of music, dancing and a dash of politics. Local Arab Americans were bidding farewell to Rashid Khalidi, an internationally known scholar, critic of Israel, and advocate for Palestinian rights, who was leaving town for a job in New York.

A special tribute came from Khalidi's friend and frequent dinner companion, the young state Sen. Barack Obama. Speaking to the crowd, Obama remenisced about meals prepared by Khalidi's wife, Mona, and conversations that had clouded his thinking.

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Today, five years later, Obama is a US senator from Illinois who expresses a firmly pro-Israel view of Middle East politics, pleasing many of the Jewish leaders and advocates for Israel whom he is courting in his presidential campaign. The dinner conversations he had envisioned with his Palestinian friend have ended...

And yet the warm embrace that Obama gave to Khalidi, and words like those at the professor's going-away party, have left some Palestinian American leaders believing that Obama is more receptive to their viewpoint than he is willing to say.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: blueturban; middleeast; obama; palestinians; unholyalliance
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..

Abbreviated mideast ping


21 posted on 04/12/2008 7:25:14 AM PDT by SJackson ( G-d da*n America, J Wright; Don't tell me words don't matter!, BH Obama)
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To: ml/nj

Very well put, ml/nj!


22 posted on 04/12/2008 9:23:01 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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FYI, the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) has taken notice of this Los Angeles Times story on Obama and put it up on its web site: www.rjchq.org .
23 posted on 04/12/2008 9:43:40 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

I see a fiend in Barack Obama..


24 posted on 04/12/2008 11:02:10 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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I see a fiend in Barack Obama.

Agreed. One letter can make all the difference in the world.

25 posted on 04/12/2008 12:42:55 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93
Well let them pin their HOPES on this ObamaNation for all I care.

History so far has shown that with these cretins (The Pali's) has attracted all sorts of losers which eventually turned out to be mega-losers afterwards. Divine wrath??

So let Obama hug & kiss up them and embrace the stench of death that clings to them for all the murders of innocent Jews and others.

Lie down with DOGS and you get up with FLEAS.

26 posted on 04/12/2008 3:11:37 PM PDT by prophetic (I'm not afraid of calling his full name: Obama's full name is BARAK HUSSIEN OBAMA!!)
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To: justiceseeker93

Thank you for the ping justiceseeker 93.


27 posted on 04/12/2008 3:24:18 PM PDT by Cindy
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PING!

Please ping your lists

28 posted on 04/13/2008 1:29:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary or Obama can!)
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