Obama and Palestine and Israel
‘Obama will immediately birth Palestinian state’
Top PA official, former Communist Party head, hopes Democrat wins
Samir Abdullah
First note that the guy endorsing Obama is both a Palestinian and a Communist. Does he know something about Obama we need to know more about?
JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority is hoping Sen. Barack Obama wins the presidential election in November and expects the Illinois Democrat to immediately set out to create a Palestinian state once he takes office, a top PA official said.
“We would like to see Obama elected. If he is elected, an agreement about the foundation of a Palestinian state (would be) reached,” PA Planning Minister Samir Abdullah told reporters in Tokyo this weekend.
Abdullah, who is the former head of the Palestinian Communist Party, said the PA expects Obama to win in November. He said once Obama takes office, “he will immediately study the Palestinian cause and will try to push it forward.”
“Obama promised he will not wait until the last period of his office to relaunch negotiations ... he will begin doing this since his first day in office unlike President Bush, who waited until his last period of power.”
We cannot know what Obama will do about Israel and the so-called Palestinians, as he takes every side on every issue. One thing is certain, if he is not careful and in his naïveté he is heavy handed with Israel, this appeasement minded man could easily start WW-III in the Middle East.
Next, another uncomfortable relationship is involved in this matter, and that involves Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi, a pro-Palestinian activist and harsh critic of Israel who has been described as a friend of the senator.
Rashid Khalid
Obama tries to make light of this relationship, as he has all the other of his unsavory relationships. “I do know him, because I taught at the University of Chicago. And he is Palestinian. And I do know him, and I have had conversations. He is not one of my advisers; he’s not one of my foreign policy people. His kids went to the Lab school where my kids go as well. He is a respected scholar, although he vehemently disagrees with a lot of Israel’s policy.”
In his piece, “Palestine: Liberation Deferred,” Khalidi suggests Israel carried out “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians; writes Western powers backed Israel’s establishment due to guilt of the Holocaust; laments the Palestinian Authority’s stated acceptance of a Palestinian state “only” in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern sections of Jerusalem; and argues Israel should be dissolved and instead a binational, cantonal system should be set up in which Jews and Arabs reside.
During documented speeches and public events, Khalidi has called Israel an “apartheid system in creation” and a destructive “racist” state.
Obama seems to have many personal relationships with people not supportive of the U.S. and in this case antagonistic towards Israel. In the handling of Israel and the so-called Palestinians Obama will be playing with fire and quite frankly, I think his sympathies are not with Israel despite his protest to the contrary.
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