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Many Jews are perplexed, “Can we take President Obama at his wordabout our beloved homeland when she is threatened by nuclear annihilation?”

We like the President. But we are perplexed too.Every positive on Israel is oset by a troubling negative.

 You can resolve this confusion by asking yourself this one question: How many of the people President Obama has surrounded himselfwith would you invite to your Seder table?

Can you imagine any of these people at your Seder table,  joining you in crying “Next Year in Jerusalem”?

For most of us, the people we hold close reect our deepest values.

The people a politician has held close over the years are more revealing than his carefully hedged actions once in high oce.

 Are you willing to bet the life of the Jewish peopleon this President?

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The Chicago YearsBill Ayers Close associate of the President 1995-2006. Friends and neighbors. Served on foundationboards together. Ayers helped fund the President’s rstcampaign for oce.

In 1974, he wrote, “Our silence or acceptance ofpro-zionist policy is a form of complicity with U.S.-backed aggression and terror.” (Prairie Fire, p. 128)Helped organize Gaza Flotilla. Advocates BDS.

Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. President Obama’spastor for 20 years. Married him and Michelle. Bap-tized his daughters. Wright was President Obama’s“spiritual mentor,” “moral compass,” “soundingboard,” “friend.”

Wright: Israel guilty of “injustice and racism,”“ethnic cleansing.” Endorsed 2012 Global March toJerusalem, which seeks “freedom for Jerusalem andits people and to put an end to the Apartheid, …”

Rashid Khalidi LA Times: Khalidi and his wife fre-

quent dinner companions of the Obamas. Obama gavespecial tribute to Khalidi at 2003 Palestinian event. Mi-chelle attended 2008 party celebrating birth of Khalidi’sdaughter.

Khalidi, close associate of Yasir Arafat, served onPLO Guidance Committee at 1991 Madrid peace talks,and reported by Christian Science Monitor to refer toPLO as “we.” Khalidi’s books praise Arafat, describeIsraelis as illegitimate occupiers of Israel proper.

 Ali Hasan Abunimah Abunimah YouTube: “I knew Barack Obama for

many years as my state Senator, when he used

to attend events in the Palestinian community inChicago all the time.” “Barack Obama used to bevery comfortable speaking up for and being associ-ated with Palestinian rights and opposing the Israelioccupation.”

 Abunimah op-ed, “Palestinians have the right toremain silent while Israel starves them, kills themand continues to violently colonize their land.” ( The

Guardian, 12/29/08)

Candidate Obama’s Senior Foreign Policy Advisers

 Washington Post 10/2/07 identied candidateObama’s senior foreign policy advisers as ZbigniewBrzezinski, Robert Malley, Samantha Power andSusan Rice. (Some later denials under pressure)

Brzezinski 2009: advocated that U.S. shootdown Israeli planes if they attacked Iran. December2008 MSNBC interview: rocket attacks from Gaza

merely annoying, do not justify Israeli military re-sponse. Israel’s response to Hezbollah attacks in2006 amount to “killing of hostages” (referring toLebanese caught in crossre)

Malley and parents close personal friends ofYasir Arafat. Malley op-ed: failed Clinton 2001 peaceeorts entirely Israel’s fault (Clinton rejects this.) Mal-ley writings: U.S. should fund Hamas and Hezbollah.

Power 2002 television interview: billions of dollarsfor “new state”of Palestine, not for Israeli military,impose “mammoth protection force” for Palestin-

ians. 2008 campaign interview complaint: “So much

of it is about: ‘Is he [Obama] going to be good forthe Jews?’” Power is now a member of the NationalSecurity Council.

Rice urged U.S. participation in “Durban II” anti-Israel “apartheid” conference. As President Obama’s Ambassador to the U.N., has repeatedly failed to de-fend Israel. Supported one-sided investigation of Is-rael alone after Gaza Flotilla. Absent from debate onGaza Flotilla incident, debate on Palestinian attempt

to declare statehood, and Netanyahu September 27speech (but present for Amadinejad speech).

Other Appointees Van Jones appointed to be President’s “Green

Czar” in 2009. Jones 2002 radio interview: “I came tothe Holy Land to get a view of the human rights situ-ation … The worst racial practices of the last centuryare present here, in shocking combination … likeapartheid … wholesale demolition of Palestinian

homes…” Jones also called for “right of return of thePalestinian people.”

Salam Al-Marayati  just appointed to representthe U.S. at October 2012 meeting of the Organizationfor Security and Co-operation in Europe. New YorkTimes interview October 2001: “…I think we should putthe state of Israel on the [9/11] suspect list …” Wrote2003 counterterrorism report advocating removal ofHamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah fromocial list of terrorist groups. November 24, 1999,PBS interview, described Hezbollah terrorist attacks

as “legitimate resistance.”

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