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- profgiles, on 10/29/2008, -22/+7I have met Mr. Khalidi - it was in Chicago in 2003, not the same event that Senator Obama was at but one earlier in the day at the college where I was teaching. The idea that Mr. Khalidi he is a fire-breathing terrorist is totally absurd. He is a first-rate scholar, a very intelligent, well-spoken, mild-mannered, and delightful human being.
Why do some (and only some) right-wingers hate him? Because he, like Jimmy Carter and others, dares to mention that the Israeli government does not abide by basic standards of human rights in their treatment of Arab-Israeli citizens and Palestinians in occupied territory. In the eyes of the fire-breathing "Israel can do no wrong" wing in this country, that is some kind of evil. It's beyond stupid. The really stupid thing though for the McCain campaign is that anyone who could possibly hate anyone who steps into the same room with Khalidi already are steeped in hatred for Obama. It won't move a single vote.- DCMacHead, on 10/30/2008, -2/+11Israel is the only country on earth that can be attacked by others and when it wins the war that someone else started, it's not allowed to call the land its own. There isn't anything "occupied".
- DWalla, on 10/30/2008, -0/+4You know what?... a lot of the top terrorist organizers are smart and scholarly. Just because they aren't strapping a bomb to their chest, cutting themselves up and screaming "Allah Akhbar!" at the top of their lungs while waving a sword doesn't make them benign. Speaking in reasonable tones while having a large vocabulary doesn't make a person "safe".
- jamesotis, on 10/30/2008, -1/+1Your viewpoint constitutes a bizarre Orwellian reversal of the truth, DWalla.
Arab-Israeli citizens enjoy human rights that are among the highest in the world, especially when considered against the absence of rights suffered by Arab citizens IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES (and given-away Israeli territories like Gaza)..
Of course, you refer to "Israeli-Arab citizens." That would be the Israelis living in Arab countries. But --oh, that's right -- Israelis can't live in Arab countries. For the most part, nor can Jews. Nowhere else in the world but Arabia is such ethnic cleansing allowed, much less allowed without world condemnation and boycott. What amount of the unattainably high level of the "human rights" that you require for Israeli Arabs would be accorded Jew citizens of the nauseatingly genocidal, land-grabbing and totalitarian Arab states?
- SheilaNoya, on 10/29/2008, -25/+8You mean the same Khalidi that McCain gave grants to in the 1990s?
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/20 ...- xman8, on 10/30/2008, -2/+8OK. Great!
Now lets see Obama's dirty little secrets?
Oh, that's right. He is the Messiah and should not be questioned.
Buried for ignorance!!!
- xman8, on 10/30/2008, -2/+8OK. Great!
- asgardshill, on 10/29/2008, -19/+5http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/29/woops-mccain-fun ...
"McCain Funded Work Of Palestinian His Campaign Hopes To Tie To Obama
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. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi's group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of "sociopolitical attitudes."
McCain happily doled out half a million dollars of the taxpayer's money to this guy's organization, and now his sheep are bleating about Obama possibly being in the same state as Khalidi years ago? If this was the October Surprise, it flopped just like the rest of Shaky's campaign.- xman8, on 10/30/2008, -1/+7OK. Great!
Now lets see Obama's dirty little secrets?
Oh, that's right. He is the Messiah and should not be questioned.
Buried for ignorance!!! - TRMarchesano, on 10/30/2008, -1/+4did McCain ever have him to his home for dinner, babysit his kids?
- xman8, on 10/30/2008, -1/+7OK. Great!
- apastron, on 10/29/2008, -3/+19I (and others I'm sure) emailed this to Drudge. Wake up, tape-keeper!!!
- existing, on 10/30/2008, -0/+5Excellent!
- existing, on 10/30/2008, -2/+9Khalidi is "a first-rate scholar, a very intelligent, well-spoken, mild-mannered, and delightful human being"? Hitler was charismatic too, profgiles.
As for Israel - it's not so much that we are fire-breathing and feel "Israel can do no wrong". Look at Israel on a map, then look at the countries surrounding her that desire nothing more, and nothing less, than her complete and total annihilation. While you gaze upon that tiny country on that map, consider the persecution she and her people have endured at the hands of those like Hitler - yet, she still survives! Remarkable. Was not P.L.O. leader Yassir Arafat indirectly influenced by Hitler? Through his surrogate father, Haj Amin El Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, who inspired and directed Hitler on the best methods of exterminating the Jews? Yassir Arafat, leader of the P.L.O., protege of the Mufti who instructed Eichmann on how best to persecute the Jews - do it slowly, in stages, so they will be caught unawares. Turns the stomach, doesn't it? Unless one just hates Jews, profgiles.
I am not interested in what a wonderful human being Mr. Khalidi is, and I'm certainly not interested in hearing you discuss basic standards of human rights, profgiles. In fact, considering your pedigreed education, it is disgusting. - mundy1776, on 10/30/2008, -3/+15Email the LA Times! Tell them to release the tapes!
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