Worse Than Ayers and Wright?
POWERLINE
Barack Obama's most troubling radical association may be his friendship and political and financial alliance with Rashid Khalidi, described by the New York Times and more reliable sources as a former spokesman for the Palestinian Liberation Organization, whose Black September arm carried out the 1972 murders at the Munich Olympics, the murder of American Ambassador to Sudan Cleo Noel, and other terrorist acts. (Khalidi denies having been an "employee" of the PLO.) Fox News did an extended piece on Obama's relationship with Khalidi; here is part of it:
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Gateway Pundit has much, much more, including this nugget: the Lost Angeles Times has video footage of Obama toasting Khalidi at Khalidi's "going-away party" from Chicago to Columbia. The event has been described as a "Jew-bash," but the Times refuses to release its video. Also, it appears that Bill Ayers and Rashid Khalidi are close friends and political allies--with each other, as well as with Barack Obama. Maybe this helps to explain why Iran has endorsed Obama for President.
Maybe one of these days a reporter will ask Obama what it was about his conversations with Khalidi that he found so educational. Would it be Khalidi's musings on the most effective way to murder an American Ambassador with a machine gun? Or on how to terrorize an Olympic Village? Why, exactly, has Obama provided funding for a notorious apologist for Islamic terrorism? Maybe such questions will be asked once Obama is safely ensconsed in the White House.
Good news from Israel
The Jerusalem Post reports that Kadima leader Tzipi Livni has failed to form a viable coalition and will recommend that a general election be held. Livni was thwarted in the end by two religious parties, Shas and Degel Hatorah, which refused to join her coalition. These two parties insist on keeping Jerusalem united. Livni, though willing to make concession after concession to various parties on other matters, would not accept a coalition agreement that excluded Jerusalem from the political talks with the Palestinians.
If Livni had formed a coalition government, she would have been Israel's leader well into 2010. Now it looks like there will be elections by February 2009.
This is good news because it raises the prospect that Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu will return to power. Netanyahu, a hard liner, would be preferable under any circumstances to Livni, whose desire to accommodate the Palestinians is apparently sufficiently intense to prevent her from forming a government. But Netanyahu could prove to be indispensable if Barack Obama is elected president. First, Netanyahu is far more likely to resist the pressure Obama may well exert on Israel to make concessions to its enemies, including terrorists. Second, with Netanyahu in power, the world will at least have one leader of a major power who understands, and perhaps is prepared to deal with, the threat posed by a nuclear Iran.
There is no guarantee, of course, that Netanyahu will defeat Livni next year. To the contrary, most observers consider the race something like a toss-up. But it looks like the Israelis will at least have the opportunity to select a new leader and a new course rather than having to settle for Livni without being consulted. |
