As the saying goes, a man is known by the company he keeps.
Team Obama includes a self-identified “Muslim Palestinian-American” campaign fundraiser who has a history of blasting Israel in highly charged letters and newspaper articles about the Middle East conflict.
Hala Hijazi, a Jordanian native and current San Francisco city employee, has personally secured between $100,000 to $200,000 for Obama’s reelection effort, according to Federal Election Committee filings.
She also has gone on record accusing Israel of war crimes while castigating America for providing the Jewish state critical military aid — a long-term investment that hasbolstered U.S. security interests. […]
Her public writings on Israel — an issue that has plagued Obama since the start of his presidency — reveal a longstanding and deep-seated hostility towards the Jewish state.
“As Americans we cannot allow the humanitarian crisis in Gaza to continue,” Hijazi wrote in a 2009 letter to the New York Times as rockets rained down on Israel from the Gaza Strip, provoking the Israelis to respond in self-defense. “The death of children and mothers and the Gaza blockade lack any moral justification and humanity.”
Hijazi went on to lament the U.S.-Israel military alliance and accuse Israel of destroying Muslim holy places.
“As God-fearing Americans, we cannot sit still and continue being silent when our taxpayer dollars are financing a war that is causing the death of innocent civilians and is destroying places of worship and education,” said Hijazi, who identified herself as “a Muslim Palestinian-American.” […]
“We are citizens of a morally just country who believe in those rights; and once we Americans accept the loss of those rights for anyone, we risk losing them for ourselves,” wrote Hijazi, who currently serves as a project manager in the San Francisco City Attorney’s office. “We cannot allow the world to believe that we do not value life.”