"Does former President Obama’s radical past tell us anything significant about President Biden’s stance on Israel today? Perhaps more importantly, does the radical alliances of Obama’s Chicago days raise a warning flag about what President Biden’s position on Israel may be in 2024, should he safely secure reelection? Many will deny it, but I believe Obama’s radical history speaks volumes about the past, present, and likely future course of Biden’s policy on Israel.
The Los Angeles Times has long refused to release a videotape in its possession of a farewell dinner, attended by Obama, for scholar and Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi. Obama spoke warmly of his friendship with Khalidi at that event. Unfortunately, the continuing mystery of that videotape has obscured the rather remarkable article that the LA Times published about the dinner — and about Obama’s broader views on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. In light of the controversy over Obama’s remarks on Israel in his address yesterday on the Middle East, it is worth revisiting that 2008 article from the LA Times. More here from 2011.
"Meet Maher Bitar and as found on Wikipedia:
Bitar worked at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Malaysia and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Jerusalem.[2]
. . .It gets more interesting…
"Caroline Glick noted that Bitar’s master’s thesis at Oxford University was about the so-called Palestinian “Nakba,” which is how Palestinians now refer to the displacement of 700,000 people due to a war in which Arab states tried to destroy Israel at its founding."
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