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Thread #111199   Message #2342788
Posted By: Azizi
17-May-08 - 07:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: Obama on Zionism, Jews
Subject: RE: BS: Obama on Zionism, Jews
Here's an online article that I think fairly represented comments that Barack Obama made regarding Palestinians:

Obama: Palestinians Matter, Too
posted by Ari Berman on 03/14/2007 @ 09:59am

"Barack Obama did the unthinkable recently: he had the audacity to mention the Palestinians.

"Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people," Obama told voters in Iowa on Sunday. That remark hardly endeared him to the hawkish pro-Israel supporters at AIPAC, where Obama (and Hillary) spoke on Monday.

According to the New York Times, Obama and Hillary held dueling receptions to woo Jewish voters. Hillary offered the standard pro-Israel line, even displaying a sign spelling her name in Hebrew (can't imagine Barack translates very well).

In the past, Obama has spoken highly of the Palestinian people and the calamities they've faced. No doubt, his opponents will now try and use that against him"...

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=175173