Internet Site Offers $50K For clip Of Obama Honoring Radical!
A US Internet news portal is offering a $50,000 reward to anyone who can provide a videotape of a 2003 dinner honoring a radical Palestinian American academic attended by then- Illinois state senator Barack Obama. During the 2008 presidential campaign, the Los Angeles Times reported that Obama attended a farewell dinner in Chicago for his longtime radical friend Rashid Khalidi.The event was videotaped and the L.A.Times reported that it had a copy of the video. "It is essential that the American people see the video for themselves – not just to understand the past but to make an informed decision about the next four years. It is well past time that we vetted Barack Obama” editor-in-chief of the Internet news portal, Joel Pollak told The Jerusalem Post.
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| Another of Obama's anti-Israel friends: Rashid Khalidi |
Khalidi served as the director of the PLO’s WAFA news agency in Beirut during the 1970s. At that time, the PLO was one of the most active terrorist organizations in the world. (It still is; but after a name change, they are now known to the world as Fatah and Hamas: different names, same terrorists and of course, the very same destroy Israel agenda : my italics).
The 2003 dinner was a tribute to Khalidi on the eve of his departure from the faculty of the University of Chicago. Khalidi left the university for Columbia University in New York City where he was appointed the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and the director of Columbia’s Middle East Institute.
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| Hey, Rashid ma man...so glad you could make it! |
Obama had no alternative but to acknowledged a close, long-term friendship between his family and the Khalidi family. Khalidi's wife, Mona was the editor of the PLO’s English news service in Beirut from 1976 to 1982. According to the Times report, at the 2003 dinner, Khalidi told his Palestinian American guests to support Obama’s 2004 bid for the US Senate. According to the report Khalidi said:
“You will not have a better senator under any circumstances.” During Obama’s
tenure as a director on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago,
the charitable group donated $75,000 to
Khalidi’s Arab American Action Network.
The Times article also notes the virulently anti-Israel discussion that took place at the 2003 Khalidi dinner. Among other things - a Palestinian who read a poem accusing Israel’s government of terrorism - hosted a fundraiser for Obama’s failed congressional campaign in 2000.
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Jewish and other Democrat voters: Hasn't the dime dropped yet about Obama?
