Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

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
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-100 next last
To: Fred Nerks
http://kennethelamb.blogspot.com/2008/02/barak-obama-questions-about-ethnic.html

Great article!

61 posted on 06/03/2008 8:33:56 PM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (Doomage on you)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: onemiddleamerican
Is this the start of the Clinton Machine’s “Obama Dump?”

Yes it is. She has indicated that she "would accept" the Vice President position. She has now put herself in line to be the candidate when and if the dirt on Obama gets deep enough to cause him to withdraw.

The Clintons are ruthless.

62 posted on 06/03/2008 8:42:21 PM PDT by cpdiii (roughneck, oilfield trash and proud of it, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, iconoclast.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: Fred Nerks

Yes indeed - he is seeking to be America’s first Arabic President....

What fools....

Does anyone here believe that Traitor Obama is going to let Traitor Clinton be his “vp” nominee?

Should he do so, he is a bigger idiot than he is evil....


63 posted on 06/03/2008 8:42:56 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt (communism killed 100 milion people in 20th century.only cause USA did not give it chance to succeed)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: cpdiii
She has now put herself in line to be the candidate when and if the dirt on Obama gets deep enough to cause him to withdraw.

There; fixed it for you.

The Clintons are ruthless.

Indeed they are.

64 posted on 06/03/2008 9:01:01 PM PDT by onemiddleamerican
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 62 | View Replies]

To: lesser_satan

Her parents were Pakistani and Indian, I believe.


65 posted on 06/03/2008 9:03:16 PM PDT by G8 Diplomat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: television is just wrong

I’m not in the business of defending Hillary but lets be factual.

We have for years here skewered Hillary for her White House phot-op pics with Ms Arafat, her calling for a Pali state...much like W and Condi and her MFing Jew tirades of lore....we have since learned she probably calls everyone MFer when angered

Obama is pretty darn cozy with the radical left that cozies up to Islamic causes of all stripes and went to a church that supports Anti-Jewish and Anti-Israel rhetoric pretty much most Sundays

personally I don’t think it’s an accident she does better with Jews but it ironic that they are both schooled in Saul Alinsky collectivism


66 posted on 06/03/2008 9:09:46 PM PDT by wardaddy (Obama?...........you actually deserve to be referred to as "boy")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: LouisianaJoanof Arc

Obama’s maternal grandmother was Saudi I think...

that makes him 75% quasi-Caucasoid and 25% Negroid

although there are now reports that his Kenyan granny simply made it all up


67 posted on 06/03/2008 9:14:22 PM PDT by wardaddy (Obama?...........you actually deserve to be referred to as "boy")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: unkus

tell that to the 95-98% of blacks who get wet over the guy

i really think the few hundred blacks who openly dislike Obama are all freepers


68 posted on 06/03/2008 9:15:25 PM PDT by wardaddy (Obama?...........you actually deserve to be referred to as "boy")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: coffee260
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)

Show me who you are associated with, and I tell you who you are!

69 posted on 06/03/2008 9:22:19 PM PDT by danmar (Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: keats5

That was funny when they turned him orange.


70 posted on 06/03/2008 9:24:37 PM PDT by festus (Tagline removed.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: coffee260
This is not breaking news.

Bama is an individual that not only is very likely a racist, but has been proven to be a racist supporter, in regards to his long membership with his church.

71 posted on 06/03/2008 9:28:48 PM PDT by dragnet2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cpdiii

Good gravy... Obama really is the 12th Imam, isn’t he?


72 posted on 06/03/2008 9:38:30 PM PDT by txhurl (Hirari, Owari ne" ("It's Over for Hillary, Isn't it?") <---aacckk! it's not!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 62 | View Replies]

To: library user

Indeed.

http://regimeofterror.com/

http://www.husseinandterror.com/


73 posted on 06/03/2008 9:47:22 PM PDT by AliVeritas (No present button for the affirmative action pres, but a new and improved easy button)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: Rebelbase

“Obama will get 35% of the vote for simply breathing”

or for writing his name; however their will be points taken off because he doesn’t want to write his real name.


74 posted on 06/03/2008 10:15:23 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Fred Nerks

That’s it. Good find my FRiend.


75 posted on 06/04/2008 3:35:22 AM PDT by mware (Americans in armchairs doing the work of the media)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: coffee260

No Jew in his or her right mind would ever vote for Baraq Hussein.


76 posted on 06/04/2008 3:40:44 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

High Volume. Articles on Israel can also be found by clicking on the Topic or Keyword Israel. or WOT [War on Terror]

----------------------------

77 posted on 06/04/2008 4:54:02 AM PDT by SJackson (It is impossible to build a peace process based on blood, Natan Sharansky)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: politicalwit
Obama is half-black and half-white. He is not black.

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

He's not white or black.

He's Barak.

78 posted on 06/04/2008 5:02:37 AM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: Fred Nerks; Yehuda

thanks Fred


79 posted on 06/04/2008 5:25:11 AM PDT by Dad yer funny (FoxNews is morphing , and not for the better ,... internal struggle? Its hard to watch)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: Randy Larsen
Juan McCain better bet his supporters in line soon!

With folks on our side referring to him in this manner, why would he bother?

80 posted on 06/04/2008 6:35:52 AM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (John McCain: If you don't blame the dims for high oil prices, I will not vote for you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-100 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson