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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: Randy Larsen

Juan is needs a very long shot bet! Just watched his speech ... we are in trouble “My Friends”!


21 posted on 06/03/2008 6:24:27 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Crazieman

Who’s Feinberg?


22 posted on 06/03/2008 6:24:38 PM PDT by coffee260 (coffee)
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To: coffee260

Since most the MSM supports the PLO over Israel this will get little play.


23 posted on 06/03/2008 6:26:07 PM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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To: coffee260
Notice the comment in the You Tube Video Link by “ADsFiinesT” who writes:

“So basically you guys want a president who brushes off the palestinian people, doesnt care about them, and ignore them. You want a president who would rather see Americans die than see Israel in danger.”

He's going unopposed folks

24 posted on 06/03/2008 6:26:18 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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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.”


I don’t care if he is orange. He is a disgrace.


25 posted on 06/03/2008 6:26:32 PM PDT by unkus
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To: coffee260
Wow, Edward Said, I recall a photo oh him chucking rock at Israeli soldiers during one of those uprising.

I believe the photo was posted here on FR.

26 posted on 06/03/2008 6:28:24 PM PDT by mware (Americans in armchairs doing the work of the media)
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To: coffee260
Amy Goodman is a dried up communist whore who pays herself a 7 figure salary. She could drop of the face of the earth into the pit of hell and I wouldn't blink. I think it tells us something that the storm troopers of the Obama campaign have a cozy relationship with her.


27 posted on 06/03/2008 6:29:55 PM PDT by oldleft
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To: i_dont_chat

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


28 posted on 06/03/2008 6:30:18 PM PDT by LouisianaJoanof Arc
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To: Red_Devil 232

Agreed!

My hands are shaking....


29 posted on 06/03/2008 6:30:50 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Arrogance IS my virtue!)
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To: television is just wrong

Isn’t Hildebeast’s little sex-toy Huma a Pali?


30 posted on 06/03/2008 6:31:58 PM PDT by lesser_satan (Cthulu '08! Why vote for the lesser evil?)
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To: i_dont_chat

Doesn’t his father’s birth certificate state he is an Arab? I’m not joking.


31 posted on 06/03/2008 6:32:49 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: Hildy; NormsRevenge; elhombrelibre; Allegra; SandRat; tobyhill; G8 Diplomat; Dog; Cap Huff; ...

How interesting....


32 posted on 06/03/2008 6:33:28 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: LouisianaJoanof Arc

Heard the same thing!


33 posted on 06/03/2008 6:34:00 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: AliVeritas; Dog; holdonnow; Miss Didi

drip...drip..


34 posted on 06/03/2008 6:34:11 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: MindBender26
So tell us Senator, since Saddam Husein gave $25,000 to every suicide/murder bomber's family, did you oppose the war in Iraq because it helped cut off funding to Palestinian terrorists?

Bolding for emphasis.

35 posted on 06/03/2008 6:34:12 PM PDT by library user
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To: i_dont_chat
Obama is half-black and half-white. He is not black.

Does that make him a "wack" or a "blite"?

36 posted on 06/03/2008 6:36:17 PM PDT by politicalwit (AKA... A Tradition Continues...Now a Hoosier Freeper)
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To: coffee260

So what? It’s no big deal!

He is a Democrat, after all.

It can all be explained (and then buried).


37 posted on 06/03/2008 6:36:58 PM PDT by airborne (LETS GO PENS!!! LETS GO PENS!!! LETS GO PENS!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!)
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To: unkus

Kerry WAS orange.


38 posted on 06/03/2008 6:37:55 PM PDT by keats5 (tolerance of intolerant people is cultural suicide)
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To: Randy Larsen
Juan McCain better bet his supporters in line soon!

All three of them?

39 posted on 06/03/2008 6:40:10 PM PDT by lonestar
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To: coffee260

Thanks for posting. BTTT!


40 posted on 06/03/2008 6:40:33 PM PDT by PGalt
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