Fox News Reports On Obama Pro-Palestinian Connection

The report includes clips from an interview given by Ali Abunimah who says that Obama had close ties with pro-Palestinian activists as a State Senator in Chicago. He says the he even introduced Obama on stage once at a pro-Palestinian fundraiser.

By the way, Ali Abunimah is a radical. Allow me to give you a sampling of the things Abunimah has said or written concerning Israel:


The Jewish State: “Ending the occupation does not solve the problem. The Jews do not view all human beings as equal. The 1948 borders were calculated to harm Christians, Arabs, Palestinians and Muslims.”

Apartheid: “There are many similarities between the Israeli and South African cases which make the comparison compelling.”

Apartheid and Justification for Terror: “If Israel is going to maintain a military occupation over millions of people by nothing but brute force, then no power on earth is going to stop some of these occupied people responding in kind. The only way to end the violence is to end the occupation, and to allow Israelis and Palestinians to live side by side in peace as equals. Apartheid solutions, such as building ghettoes or fences for Jews or Palestinians will only perpetuate the violence.”

Electronic Intifada (Abunimah's website) Arafat Obituary: “The Arafat who was routinely scorned by American politicians, talk show hosts, and in thousands of American newspaper editorials for years was not a real human being, but a crude and simplistic caricature that often relied for its power on racist stereotypes about Arabs pervasive in American popular culture. The meme had been entirely conceived to distract from the real issues.”

One State, Two Peoples: “The insistence on partition, not on one state, is increasingly a delusional deviation from this reality . . . It is the moment, therefore, for us to declare the era of partition over and commit to a moral, just and realisable vision in which Israelis and Palestinians build a future as partners in a single state . . .”

Hamas Election Victory: “It reduces the conflict to its most fundamental elements: there is occupation, and there is resistance . . . Hamas’ victory pulls the rug from under the project of trying to deflect the blame for the conflict from Israeli colonization to Palestinian internal pathologies.”

Israel Killing Civilians, Stealing Land, Apartheid: “Meanwhile, Israel continues to build a comprehensive system of apartheid, to kill Palestinian civilians and to steal their land with total impunity . . .

Endorses boycott of Israeli Academics: “It seems that Israeli professors should never be deprived of their ability to enjoy conferences in Oslo, London or Florence no matter how bad things get in Palestine, no matter how imprisoned Palestinians are in their ghettos and no matter how complicit major Israeli institutions are with the apartheid system.”

The EU: “In the absence of real solidarity from European and other governments, more Palestinians have concluded that armed resistance is the only means they have to stand up to Israel's relentless colonization . . . I do not support violence of any kind, but there is no greater hypocrisy than calling on an occupied people to renounce violence when you are complicit in the occupier's violence against them.”

Disengagement From Gaza: “Israel is adapt at creating complications which then absorb and exhaust all available diplomatic and political energy, while it uses the time to entrench itself ever more deeply in the occupied territories.”

Colonization, Apartheid, Land Grabbing: “The Israelis want time to complete the colonization of the West Bank, especially the huge tracts recently grabbed through construction of the apartheid wall. Israel wants no discussion of such final status issues as Jerusalem or refugees as long as there exists any slight chance that such issues might not be settled their way.”

Israel will star war: “And, as Israel gets further into its corner, the chances increase dramatically that it will seek to resolve its existential problem not just at the expense of the Palestinians, but by spreading the conflict to its neighbors.”

This is the man who introduced Obama at a pro-Palestinian fundraiser in Chicago and vouches for the fact that Obama was ardently pro-Palestinian.
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