KHALIDI'S TIES TO OBAMA WARRANTS IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION...
NRO -- The Corner
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Obama pal Rashid Khalidi back in the news ... for aiding Hamas (sent by Andy
McCarthy via email, will appear as first person account)
President Obama's good friend, former PLO mouthpiece Rashid Khalidi, is back in
the news. He has signed an appeal for funds to outfit another ship that, like
the "peace flotilla," would try to break Israel's blockade of Gaza, the
territory controlled by Hamas — the foreign terrorist organization that is the
Muslim Brotherhood's Palestinian arm.
The ship would be called — wait for it — The Audacity of Hope. Campus Watch has
the story, here
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As I detailed
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in NRO on the eve of the 2008 presidential election, the Los Angeles Times has
had in its possession, but has suppressed from the public, a videotape of
Khalidi's 2003 going-away bash, when he left the University of Chicago to
become the Edward Said Professor of Arabic Studies at Columbia. Then state Sen.
Barack Obama gave a glowing tribute. Here is some of what the LA Times
reported:
A special tribute came from Khalidi's friend and frequent dinner companion, the
young state Sen. Barack Obama. Speaking to the crowd, Obama reminisced about
meals prepared by Khalidi's wife, Mona, and conversations that had challenged
his thinking.
His many talks with the Khalidis, Obama said, had been "consistent reminders to
me of my own blind spots and my own biases. . . . It's for that reason that I'm
hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation — a
conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashid's dinner table,"
but around "this entire world."...
[T]he warm embrace Obama gave to Khalidi, and words like those at the
professor's going-away party, have left some Palestinian American leaders
believing that Obama is more receptive to their viewpoint than he is willing to
say. Their belief is not drawn from Obama's speeches or campaign literature,
but from comments that some say Obama made in private and from his association
with the Palestinian American community in his hometown of Chicago, including
his presence at events where anger at Israeli and U.S. Middle East policy was
freely expressed.
As the report gingerly relates, the Khalidi bash was one such event. As the
report does not relate, Obama and Khalidi's mutual friends, the former Weather
Underground terrorists turned professors Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, were
also reportedly in attendance. (When Obama and Ayers teamed up to dole out
money at the Leftist Woods Fund, a $75,000 grant was given to the Arab American
Action Network (AAAN) founded by Khalidi and his wife, Mona. Mona Khalidi has
also signed the appeal for money to support The Audacity of Hope voyage. The
AAAN regards Israel as illegitimate and has sought to justify Palestinian
terrorism.) As I mentioned in the 2008 column, the Weathermen's 1974 manifesto,
Prairie Fire, is rabidly anti-Israel and demands that the U.S. get out of the
Middle East, etc.
The United States has neutrality laws against things like fitting, furnishing
or arming vessels with the intent of committing hostile acts against a country
with which the U.S. is at peace. (Challenging a blockade is a hostile act.) We
also have laws against providing material support to terrorist organizations
like Hamas. Will the Obama Justice Department pursue an investigation of
Khalidi?
07/20 05:09 PM
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The Denver Post (among other outlets) is reporting
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http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_15553697> that a federal appeals court
has directed that Conrad Black be given a bail hearing by the district court,
which would free him from prison and permit him to remain free pending further
legal proceedings.
07/20 04:26 PM
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DOJ's Green Light to Voter Fraud and Intimidation [Andy McCarthy
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My column
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http://article.nationalreview.com/438362/the-case-against-the-new-black-panthers/andrew-c-mccarthy>
today is about the Justice Department's dismissal of the New Black Panther
Party voter intimidation case. Specifically, I respond to what I think was a
remarkably weak and uninformed NRO essay
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http://article.nationalreview.com/437619/the-new-black-panther-casebr-a-conservative-dissent/abigail-thernstrom>
by Abigail Thernstrom (and that's an assertion I would have bet heavily
against ever uttering). I'm not going to rehash it here. Readers can judge for
themselves which of us has the better of the argument.
Besides countering Dr. Thernstrom, my main point is that the legally
unjustifiable, transparently political dismissal of the Panthers case, after
the government had already won it, should not be seen in isolation. I contend,
in summation, that the case "is about a pattern. It is about the Justice
Department actively signaling to the Democratic party’s unscrupulous street
operators — the Panthers, the SEIU, ACORN and its progeny — that the voter
fraud and intimidation light is green. The civil-rights laws will not be
enforced. The Justice Department will not protect the integrity of our
elections."
On that point (and relevant also to Dr. Thernstrom's strange claim that there
has been scant evidence of actual intimidation) a reader reports the following:
Hi Andy—I have been on the Republican legal support team in Philadelphia during
the last two presidential elections. I was not at the polling place during the
Panther incident but I was working the phones to support poll watchers, and we
got lots of calls about the Panthers. During the previous election I actually
went to various polling places and met extreme hostility at several, almost
completely directly due to outsiders creating paranoia and trying to stir up
suspicion and hatred against white people in general and Republicans in
particular (ACORN was everywhere during that election, their focus was creating
the fear that Republicans were “stealing” people’s votes—as if).
The polling place with the Panthers was in a very busy precinct with a lot of
almost street fair activity going on around it, so there were lots of people to
witness these guys, which was the biggest reason for their behavior.
Philadelphia has a long history of poll shenanigans, which is why the lawyers
are deployed there. In both of the last elections police had to rescue members
of the Republican legal team, even though they only were there to support poll
watchers and did not go into the polling places.
Fair elections in Philadelphia ought to be a primary focus for the Justice
Department. The treatment of the Panthers may have set up an expectation for
the next election that will create some truly dangerous conditions for voters
and poll watchers.
Clearly, while elections are a primary focus for the Obama Justice Department,
fair elections that comply with the rule of law are not. As I relate toward the
end of the column, it is reliably reported that a top Civil Division official
brazenly announced that DOJ would not be enforcing the federal law that calls
on states to purge their polls of ineligible voters. She claimed that enforcing
the law would depress turn-out. Of course, it would only depress the turn-out
of people who shouldn't be voting. Guess who those people are going to be
voting for?
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