A leading Christian Zionist says Israel should be concerned that Barack Obama is meeting with the successor to infamous Palestinian terror leader Yasser Arafat. The Democratic presidential nominee is expected to meet with Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah Wednesday. The Illinois senator will be joined by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel on the Mideast trip.
Gary Bauer, who serves on the executive board of the group Christians United for Israel (CUFI), says Obama has surrounded himself with a bevy of "anti-Israel" foreign policy advisers. "Barack Obama recently spoke at a big convention [AIPAC] here in Washington in which he said that he wanted a united Jerusalem -- and then, literally, 24 hours later said that he was misunderstood and is now talking about dividing Jerusalem between Israel and the radical Palestinians," Bauer explains. "So, I believe there's [sic] a lot of signs here that Barack Obama would, as president, conduct one of the most anti-Israel foreign policies that we've ever seen in the United States." Bauer says traveling to the West Bank, which is currently controlled by radical Palestinian forces, is not a favorite trip for presidential candidates of either party for obvious reasons. "One of them being that you can confuse the Palestinian radicals about what the policy of the United States is. Barack Obama, if he's fortunate enough to be elected president, will not take the oath of office until January," Bauer adds. "There's a lot of time between now and then, and only one individual can speak for the United States abroad -- and that's the president of the United States." Last year, Obama told a group of Democratic Party activists in Iowa that "nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people."
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