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red states rule
03-25-2013, 03:04 AM
and the liberal media is ignoring this story. Is anyone surprised?


http://www.weeklystandard.com/sites/all/files/images/WStandard_20130321_BamArafat-1_Newscom.preview.jpg






Searches at the Associated Press (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/search.hosted.ap.org/wireCoreTool/Search?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&query=Obama+Arafat), New York Times (http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/Obama+Arafat/since1851/allresults/1/allauthors/newest/), Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/newssearch/search.html), and Los Angeles Times (http://www.latimes.com/search/dispatcher.front?Query=Obama+Arafat&target=adv_all) done at 9:30 p.m. on "Obama Arafat" (not in quotes) returned nothing relevant to the matter I am about to note. A Google News search (https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Obama+Arafat&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#q=Obama+Arafat&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=nws&source=lnt&tbs=sbd:1&sa=X&psj=1&ei=UapPUaLjK_al4AOasICoDA&ved=0CCMQpwUoATi0AQ&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.44158598,d.dmg&fp=ae31666507db0829&biw=1187&bih=668) on the same term (sorted by date) returns only about a half-dozen relevant items (another very recent one is missing, and I'll get that one in a later post this evening).


On Thursday in Ramallah, as Daniel Halper at the Weekly Standard blog (http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-speaks-under-arafat-banner_708753.html) noted, U.S. President Barack Obama "addressed the assembled journalists while standing under a Yasser Arafat banner." Arafat is rightly considered the “father of modern terrorism.” Since U.S. establishment press coverage is non-existent, I'll take readers to an outraged Nile Gardiner at the UK Telegraph (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100208464/barack-obamas-arafat-blunder-is-an-embarrassment-for-the-leader-of-the-free-world/) to express how utterly offensive Obama's silently condoning Arafat's legitimacy really is:
Barack Obama’s Arafat blunder is an embarrassment for the leader of the free world
... It is simply astonishing that the leader of the free world would agree to speak against a backdrop of a murderous terrorist with American and Israeli blood on his hands. What kind of message does this send to America’s enemies when the president of the United States gives a press conference standing in front of a banner celebrating one of the most brutal terrorists in history? It projects a clear signal that Washington is weak in the face of terrorism, and it is an insult to the memory of those who died at the hands of Arafat’s terror network.


While the Obama White House prides itself on having an extremely slick campaign operation, its ineptness and insensitivity in government, not least on the world stage, can be staggering. President Obama, for example, could not even pronounce the name of Burmese freedom fighter Aung San Suu Kyi on his recent visit to Rangoon, referring to her several times as Aung YAN Suu Kyi. He also famously called the Falkland Islands "the Maldives", and succeeded in offending the whole of Poland when he referred to a "Polish death camp" in World War Two. As I’ve noted in previous pieces, President Obama’s first term was littered with embarrassing gaffes abroad, and it looks like his second term will be more of the same. This is in many respects an amateurish presidency, headed by a president who is frequently out of his depth on the world stage, and all too willing to appease America’s adversaries.

In reaction, the Weekly Standard's Halper linked to a 2004 compilation (http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_article=795&x_context=7) of Arafat's murderous acts done by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America shortly after Arafat's death in November of that year. It begins thusly (internal link is in original, and still works):
Yasir Arafat's Timeline of Terror
Members of the media are focusing much attention on Yasir Arafat's legacy. Many of the historical briefs and timelines being published whitewash his decades-long involvement in terrorism. While they note that Arafat led Fatah and the PLO, the terrorist acts committed by these groups are often ignored.


For example, a Nov. 4 AP timeline (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,136880,00.html), reproduced in the publications and Web sites of many different media outlets, lists only one failed act of sabotage in 1965, 3 suicide bombings in December of 2001 and one in 2002.
In fact, groups under Arafat's direct or indirect command – including Fatah, Black September, Tanzim and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade – were responsible for hundreds of bombings, hijackings, assassinations and other attacks, including the 1972 murder of 11 of Israel's Olympic athletes in Munich, the 1973 murder of the American ambassador to Sudan, Cleo Noel, and the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruiseship (resulting in the murder of wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer)


Read more: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2013/03/24/shhh-dont-tell-anyone-obama-spoke-shadow-huge-yasser-arafat-banner#ixzz2Oazqmttc

Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
03-25-2013, 07:05 AM
and the liberal media is ignoring this story. Is anyone surprised?


http://www.weeklystandard.com/sites/all/files/images/WStandard_20130321_BamArafat-1_Newscom.preview.jpg

I told everybody about this guy and how in his second term he would expose more of what he truly is.
I am damn sure, we haven't seen nothing yet....
Just wait another year or two!!

We must remember this ffing clown can not be touched for the destruction he brings!!!!!!--Tyr

Drummond
03-25-2013, 08:30 PM
I told everybody about this guy and how in his second term he would expose more of what he truly is.
I am damn sure, we haven't seen nothing yet....
Just wait another year or two!!

We must remember this ffing clown can not be touched for the destruction he brings!!!!!!--Tyr

Will the media EVER stop sucking up to him ? [.. as true of the British media as your own, I think ..]

aboutime
03-25-2013, 09:07 PM
We must remember. Obama uses Arafat as one of his mentors. Much like most members of Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood to whom...He is sending Modern Military aircraft, and billions to prolong, help, and assist the enemies of America.

Just as this man wanted....4765 and, this man instructed Obama...4766 the man who wasn't afraid to brag about OWNING the Democrat party. Of which. Obama has become the puppet of record.

red states rule
03-26-2013, 04:17 AM
We must remember. Obama uses Arafat as one of his mentors. Much like most members of Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood to whom...He is sending Modern Military aircraft, and billions to prolong, help, and assist the enemies of America.

Just as this man wanted....4765 and, this man instructed Obama...4766 the man who wasn't afraid to brag about OWNING the Democrat party. Of which. Obama has become the puppet of record.


It would not be surprising to see Obama use the same tactics against his political opponents as Arafat did - if he thought he could get away with it as Arafat did

avatar4321
03-27-2013, 05:22 PM
Seriously? This man is such a disgrace.