Klein: ‘Obama will immediately birth Palestinian state’. Top official, a former communist party director, throws his support to presidential candidate

Samir Abdullah (L), the former head of the Palestinian Communist Party who is currently serving as Planning Minister of the Palestinian Authority, told reporters in Tokyo this weekend the PA is “hoping” Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) wins the U.S. presidential election in November 2008, and “expects” that Obama will “immediately set out to create a Palestinian state once he takes office,” Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily reported July 6, 2008.

We would like to see Obama elected. If he is elected, an agreement about the foundation of a Palestinian state reached.

Abdullah said “once the Illinois senator takes office ‘he will immediately study the Palestinian cause and will try to push it forward’,” Klein wrote.

“Obama promised he will not wait until the last perdiod of his office to relaunch negotiations…he will begin doing this since his first day in office unlike President Bush, who waited until his last period of power.”

Klein reported that Abdullah’s remarks were published July 7, 2008, in the Firas Press Network, a “Palestinian news website identified with PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah organization.”

“Abdullah is not the only Palestinian official to recently express support for Obama,” Klein wrote.

“Ahmed Yousuf, Hamas’ chief political adviser in the Gaza Strip, told WND and WABC Radio in April he ‘hopes’ Obama becomes president.”

“At a recent event in a Boca Raton, Fla., synagogue, participants in a panel discussion quizzed Obama about his relationship with Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi, a pro-Palestinian activist and harsh critic of Israel who has been described as a friend of the senator. … Khalidi’s ties to Obama were first exposed by WND in February exposed by WND in a widely cited article.”

“Last month, WND noted Obama termed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a “constant sore” in an interview just five days after Khalidi wrote an opinion piece in the Nation magazine in which he called the ‘Palestinian question’ a ‘running sore’.”

Last week the Republican Jewish Coalition “took out ads in top Florida newspapers petitioning Jews in the Sunshine State to question Obama over” remarks made by Merrill A. McPeak, Obama’s military adviser and national campaign co-chairman, “in which he implied U.S. politicians are afraid of Jewish voters in Miami and New York City and that American Jews are the ‘problem impeding a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.’” McPeak’s remarks were highlighted in March by WND.

In April, Obama’s top Midde East adviser, Daniel Kurtzer, “who has long been seen as one of Israel’s greatest foes in Washington”, “stressed Jerusalem must be included in any negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.”

The rest of Klein’s article can be viewed here. Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs has the media link.