The board of a nonprofit organization on which Sen. Barack Obama served as a paid director alongside a confessed domestic terrorist granted funding to a controversial Arab group that mourns the establishment of Israel as a “catastrophe” and supports intense immigration reform, including providing drivers licenses and education to illegal aliens.
The co-founder of the Arab group in question, Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, also has held a fundraiser for Obama. Khalidi is a harsh critic of Israel, has made statements supportive of Palestinian terror and reportedly has worked on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was involved in anti-Western terrorism and was labeled by the State Department as a terror group.
The name of the group is the Arab American Action Network(AAAN), a group that opposes Israel’s existence and holds that denying drivers’ licenses to illegal immigrants is anti-Arab bigotry. The official website for the AAAN has only an ad for a concert (as of2/25/08). Googling for the website brings up this page, not linked to on the home page, which seems to be seeking stories from people about before Israel’s existence.
Further,
…Robert Malley, a principal Obama foreign policy adviser, has penned numerous opinion articles, many of them co-written with a former adviser to the late Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, petitioning for dialogue with Hamas and blasting Israel for numerous policies he says harm the Palestinian cause.
Israel has been the most stable and anti-terrorist nation in the Middle East. Any presidential candidate who opposes or is sympathetic to those who oppose Israel’s existence will only cause America trouble.
