Obama and the Pro-Palestinian Group
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Link to an interesting story in case you haven't seen it:
"Democratic presidential frontrunner Sen. Barack Obama served as a paid director on the board of a nonprofit organization that granted funding to a controversial Arab group that mourns the establishment of Israel as a "catastrophe."
http://www.jewishpress.com/print.do/30283/Obama_Served_On_Board_That_Funded_Pro-Palestinian_Group.html
"Democratic presidential frontrunner Sen. Barack Obama served as a paid director on the board of a nonprofit organization that granted funding to a controversial Arab group that mourns the establishment of Israel as a "catastrophe."
http://www.jewishpress.com/print.do/30283/Obama_Served_On_Board_That_Funded_Pro-Palestinian_Group.html
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the fodder you toss is of no signifance to anybody but you & a few others that are not of open minds...meaning this is all niose that will not shift view points...
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The story tries to link that single grant in 2001 to an art exhibition the organization showed a few years later depicting images of the "catastrophe" of the 1948 war.
Here are some links to the Woods Fund. Knock yourself out.
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http://www.woodsfund.org/about /history
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Here's their 2001 annual report:
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Directors (2001):
Howard J. Stanback, Chair
Maria G. Valdez, Vice Chair
William C. Ayers
Cynthia M. Campbell
R. Eden Martin
Barack Obama
Charles N. Wheatley
Where did the lion's share of the Fund's money go that year? To FamilyCare, a program which provided health insurance to 30,000 working poor families in Illinois.
Next on the agenda: organizing the Illinois Coalition Against Predatory Home Loans. It provided legal and financial and other types of assistance to people who might lose their homes through foreclosure. SOUND FAMILIAR?? Thanks to Barack Obama, Illinois was one of the first states to introduce anti-predatory lending legislation.
"Paid in 2001" (over $3.5 million in grants). Under the caption "Community Organizing", one $40,000 grant paid "for the salary of a community organizer in a new initiative to develop leadership capabilities of Arab youth and women on Chicago's West Side".
You're an idiot.