Thrilled to see that Joe Lieberman lost the democratic nomination, but sad to see Cynthia McKinney lose.
The first race shows that the establishment, pro-Israel candidate, even with tons of cash, doesn’t necessarily always win (and should be taken on aggressively) while the second shows, once again, the nefarious impact of out-of-state donors to pro-Israel candidates. See Billmon on this for more.
Update: Read this Billmon post.
Why Connecticut is Happy that Joe Lieberman Lost!…
In full support of those who were smart enough to not support Joe Lieberman……
From what I can tell the islamic lobby from out of state started donating to Mckinney in great numbers first. So these denors to Mckinney must be even more nefarious…
Hani Y. Awadallah – president, Arab American Civic Organization, New Jersey.
Jesse Aweida – co-founder, American Task Force on Palestine.
Belal Dalati – a vice president of Arab-American Broadcasting Co. (Orange County Register, February 19, 2002) associated with the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Hasan Elkhatib –member, board of directors, American Islamic Educational Foundation (MetroWest Jewish News, October 10, 1996)
Yaser Elmenshawy – chairman, Islamic Council of New Jersey.
Rafeeq Jaber – president, Islamic Association for Palestine, a Hamas offshoot.
Oussama Jammal – president, Bridgeview Mosque.
Samer Khalaf – chairman, American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee’s Political Outreach Committee in New Jersey.
Faroque Khan – president, Islamic Center of Long Island, also connected to the American Muslim Alliance and Islamic Society of North America.
Mahmoud A Nimer – member, board of directors, Islamic Academy of Florida, Tampa (an Islamic school established by Sami al-Arian; al-Arian’s indictment indicates the school was used as a base of support for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad).
Ayman Osman – member, board of directors, Islamic Academy of Florida, Tampa; employer of Hatem Fariz, arrested on terrorism charges and charged with being a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Talat Othman – former chairman of the Islamic Free Market Institute; secretary/treasurer of the American Task Force on Palestine.
Khalid Qazi – former president, American Muslim Council of western New York State.
Hareth Raddawi – member, board of directors, American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee, Chicago.
Allam Reheem – former member, board of directors, Islamic Academy of Florida, Tampa.
Talal Sunbulli – former chairman, Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago.
James Zogby – president, Arab American Institute.
In addition, the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee gave $1,000
ajaiiburns-
First “dhimmitude”
Now “Islamic lobbies”?
What an imagination.
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Next up: Protocols of the Elders of Mecca
Look, as an american I appreciate anyone that was willing to discuss a more even-handed US policy towards Israel. However that was the least of her problems. She was known on Capitol hill as just plain crazy. She was a lazy congresswoman, played the racism card whenever attacked for any reason (not unlike the anti-semitism card) and was generally an embarassment to the party.