BREAKING: Devastating Video Discovery-- Obama Associate Talks About His Pro-Palestinian Background

The Real Democrat Party ^ | 06/03/08 | Gateway Pundit

[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

[Red_Devil 232]

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

[coffee260]

Who’s Feinberg?

[tobyhill]

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

[tsowellfan]

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

[unkus]

“May I please remind you that Obama is half-black and half-white. He is not black.”

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

[mware]

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.

[oldleft]

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.

[LouisianaJoanof Arc]

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

[Randy Larsen]

Agreed!

My hands are shaking....

[lesser_satan]

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

[warsaw44]

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

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

How interesting....

[warsaw44]

Heard the same thing!

[SE Mom]

drip...drip..

[library user]

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.

[politicalwit]

Obama is half-black and half-white. He is not black.

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

[airborne]

So what? It’s no big deal!

He is a Democrat, after all.

It can all be explained (and then buried).

[keats5]

Kerry WAS orange.

[lonestar]

Juan McCain better bet his supporters in line soon!

All three of them?

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. BTTT!