Wednesday, October 29, 2008
OK, not the Times' head exactly, but the CIO of something called Dune Capital is offering a $150,000 reward for a digital copy of the video being held captive by the LA Times of a dinner in honor of Rashid Khalidi, former Arafat spokesperson, founder of the Arab American Action Network and radical anti-Israel professor (who knew, way back when we first started talking about Rashid Khalidi, that he'd be at the center of such a national whirlwind?):
There is a report that during his toast to Khalidi, Obama said:
...He congratulates Khalidi for his work saying "Israel has no God-given right to occupy Palestine" plus there's been "genocide against the Palestinian people by Israelis."...
Imagine the explosion if that's true? The degree to which Obama has had his radical connections covered up has been astounding, but having him on video actually saying such a thing...? Forget the LA Times, there would be money-bags in the Jewish Community who'd be crying for the sake of their collective necks if this comes out (oh please, let it be true). I'd expect some serious backlash against the likes of Alan Solomont, the NJDC and J-Street (all one and the same) for all the excuse-making and dissembling and cover they've been doing. As if many of us don't already know we're being betrayed, this would be the capper.
Here's the reported guest-list:
There's an excellent piece (via LGF) here: The Khalidi Tape: Putting the Bits and Pieces Together with New Details that contains the guest list:
Verified Information
Location:
Burbank Manor, 6312 W 79th St., Burbank, Illinois
Time:
Friday, August 1, 2003
6pm - Reception
7pm - Dinner and Reception
Those who attended:
1. AAAN (Arab American Action Network)
2. Not In My Name
3. Ali Abunimah (a Palestinian rights activist in Chicago who helps run Electronic Intifada, who met Obama in 2000)
4. Bernadine Dorhn and Bill Ayers
5. Barack Obama
6. Mayor of Chicago Richard Daley
7. Rashid Khalidi
8. Mona Khalidi
9. Gihad Ali, a Palestinian spoken word poet
10. NPR Worldview host Jerome McDonnell (not McDonald as written in the e-mail)
11. Camilia Odeh (director of SWYC Southwest Youth Collaborative)
12. Sanabel debka troupe (traditional Palestinian dance group)
13. Hatem Abudayyeh
14. Others - Up to 50 to 500 guests
Volunteer Solomonia operatives have attempted to contact a couple of those on the list. No surprise that they aren't available.
Here's video background on the former PLO terrorist employee (from the site above):
Discover the Networks has a profile of Khalidi's AAAN here. Here's an interview with AAAN executive director Hatem Abudayyeh that includes a number of choice quotes, such as:
...The Israeli government and its military killing machine has again attacked Lebanon as they did in 1982, one of the most brutal invasions in the long history of their aggression against the Palestinians and Arabs...But the Lebanese resistance is bravely fighting back, defending its nation and its people from this massive aggression...
Yeah, that's Hizballah he's talking about. Get the gist?
Barack needs to stop lying about his past and people need to stop covering for him. If he and his allies want to make excuses for all this and try to explain it away, so be it, but let's have the argument on that basis. It's bad enough we have some of the most overt voter fraud in the offing any of us has seen in his or her lifetimes, those of us who are actually legitimate, living voters have a right to have ALL of the facts on the table before we walk into the voting booth.
Update: And here's another disturbing connection: Hatem El-Hady (Elhady). Another Disturbing Unreported Barack Obama Association: a Terrorist Fundraiser
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Omri has pics and video of today's well-attended protest at the LA Times over their continued refusal to release either the video or even a transcript of the Obama/Khalidi tape they are holding. He promises more material later.... Read More
I'll add another $10 to Dune Capital's amount. Anyone else?
McCain Funded Work Of Palestinian His Campaign Hopes To Tie To Obama
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/mccain-funded-work-of-pal_n_138606.html
In regards to Khalidi, however, the guilt-by-association game burns John McCain as well.
During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.
A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi's Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank. (See grant number 5180, "West Bank: CPRS" on page 14 of this PDF.)
The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as chairman in January.
Bwahahahaha! You have got to be kidding. That's the best response they can come up with? A group McCain was affiliated gave grants for public opinion polls?
Obama and Khalidi were PALS! Their families were close. If Obama said the things he's reported to have that's far beyond anything the HuffPo has come up with.
Guilt by association? Guess what? They're associated, and Obama's guilty.