Obama humiliates Muslim guests at White House Ramadan event, endorses Israel’s Gaza assault ,

[King_David]

(in no why do I endorse or support this trash written about our President whom I do support.
Posted to show what Mondoweiss is all about )

At the annual White House Iftar dinner commemorating the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, President Barack Obama endorsed Israel’s ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip and defended government spying on Muslim-Americans. Alongside dozens of Muslim-American community activists and Muslim diplomats, the White House welcomed Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer, an outspoken advocate of Israel’s settlement enterprise who has claimed Muslim and Arab culture is endemically violent.

In the past, the annual Iftar dinner passed without much notice. Last year, President Barack Obama delivered a boilerplate speech to the assembled crowd of Muslim-American community activists and Middle Eastern ambassadors about his efforts to spur entrepreneurship. But this time, amidst a one-sided Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip that was about to claim its 200th death in just a week, and which the US had backed to the hilt, the heat was on.

While Obama prepared his remarks, calls rang out with unprecedented intensity for invitees to boycott the July 14 ceremony. Among those who urged a boycott in protest of the Gaza assault and ongoing government spying on Muslim-Americans was the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), an established presence in Washington representing the country’s largest Arab-American advocacy group.

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/humiliates-endorses-surveillance.html

[shira]

1. Well, Mondoweiss does want us to "understand Hamas" you know.

Last edited Fri Jul 18, 2014, 10:41 PM - Edit history (1)

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/understanding-hamas.html

[DonViejo]

2. Mondoweiss posting an article already published by

Alternet is supposed to "show what Mondoweiss is all about"?

This post originally appeared in Alternet.

[King_David]

3. Yes

But really didn't need much illustration.

[Fred Sanders]

4. "What someone is all about" suggests everything about nothing. Like an Issa subpoena.

[azurnoir]

6. There was far more than that did you actually read the article?

are you forgetting the part about continued surveillance of the US Muslim community?

[azurnoir]

13. first off you seem to blend your own editorializing with the actual quotes from the article

this is the entirety of what was said about domestic targeting of American Muslims

When dinner began, Kurnaz said Obama was unusually candid with those seated at his table. They confronted him on the issue of domestic spying, an issue that took on renewed immediacy after revelations by the Intercept that the NSA and FBI has spied on leading Muslim-American civil rights activists. Obama attempted to remind them that the spying had begun under his predecessor, Bush, but defended the practice nonetheless, denying that the NSA had violated any laws.

it really does not matter that it started under Bush it is continuing more than 6 years later under Obama, it does seem that you have little problem with Americans being targets of a domestic spy program because of their religion, well in this case anyway, to empirically state that it is not humiliating is in IMO a rather callous attitude, myself I find the notion of spying on American because of their race or religion repugnant no matter what that race or religion maybe

[azurnoir]

15. simply telling the guests in a nut shell it wasn't my idea but it's not illegal

isn't rather humiliating? by not addressing any further their concerns he seemed to dismiss them, I would say that is humiliating

and intentionally misleading hardly no intent needed the words are indeed right there

[shira]

8. Vile Mondoweiss article from yesterday that's pro- terror, bloodshed...

Even B’Tselem, normally on the straight and narrow, panders to the Israeli the public. Why else release such a ridiculous report that characterizes the weapons fired from Gaza as action that “defies humanity and is morally and legally reprehensible.”

Resistance is resistance. It isn’t pretty. But then neither is oppression.

Not to leave out the new fascist dictatorship in Egypt and its cease-fire remedy. The great negotiator of peace and democracy for the ages! I can’t stomach reading their communiques. Even for the jaded, they’re just too much.

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/israel-not-state.html

Sick evil f!#ks demanding even more blood.

[NaturalHigh]

9. I had never heard of mondoweiss until today.

It must be run by a pretty vile group of people.

[King_David]

10. You got that right

Look at this :

https://twitter.com/alexbkane/statuses/489020949690204160

This white Mondoweiss dude wants the Hamas- Palestinians to reject a cease fire and continue to fight to their death.

[NaturalHigh]

11. Hamas apologists are pretty much like right-wing chickenhawks.

They want others to do the actual dying while the chickenhawks exploit their deaths.

[King_David]

12. Agreed