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So Who Really Was That Obama Heckler in Jerusalem? (Hint: He’s Not Who the Media Said He Was)

Mar. 22, 2013 11:06am Sharona Schwartz

So Who Was That Obama Heckler in Jerusalem (Its Not What Earlier Reports Said)

Israel’s Channel 2 says the man on the left next to police is the student who heckled Obama in Jerusalem (Screenshot: Channel 2)

Israeli and Palestinian media tracked down the man who heckled President Barack Obama during his speech to students in Jerusalem on Thursday, drawing boos from the audience and a joke from the president who said: “I have to say we actually arranged for that, because it made me feel at home. I wouldn’t feel comfortable if I didn’t have at least one heckler.”

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Contrary to the dispatch filed in the White House pool report (one TheBlaze quoted on Thursday) that said the heckler shouted in Hebrew demanding Obama free convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, the man is in fact an Israeli Arab who was shouting in Arabic, decrying what he thought was Obama’s “extremist and Zionist” speech.

Rabia Eid tells Israel’s Channel 10 News that that “Obama talked about a Jewish state, and that is unacceptable to me and to the Arabs of the world.” Eid is himself an Israeli citizen who enjoys the benefits that citizenship affords, including the opportunity to study at a government-funded university.

The Hebrew site Walla reports that security guards quickly removed the man from the venue, to the sound of boos from the audience.

The 24-year-old told Walla, “I shouted against the occupation and to ‘Free Palestine’!”

Israel’s Channel 2 reports that Eid called Obama a “Zionist.”

Electronic Intifada, a pro-Palestinian website that publishes articles presenting Israel as an “apartheid” occupier of Palestinian lands spoke at length to Eid after the incident. He told the site he shouted this at Obama: “Did you really come here for peace or to give Israel more weapons to kill and destroy the Palestinian people? Did you happen to see the apartheid wall on your way here?” Palestinians often refer to the security barrier Israel erected in order to stop the entry of suicide bombers to its towns and cities the “apartheid wall.”

Eid said, “I couldn’t stand listening to the speech any more.”

“It was a very Zionist speech that made other speeches by Zionist figures pale in comparison,” he added.

He says security guards dragged him out of the hall after which he was handcuffed by police.

“They handcuffed him, threatened him, and attempted to intimidate him. They told him he was under arrest,” the site alleges. This stands in contrast to the report from an Israel Channel 2 correspondent who was on the scene and said Eid was in fact never arrested.

Here is a Hebrew report from Israel Channel 2. It describes the man standing next to Israeli police as the heckler:

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MachineGunPreacher777
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:06pm
If Obama really does want at least one heckler at every speech, I’d be happy to offer my services.

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freedomofspeech
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:53pm
This is was beyond my scope of practice.

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CARLHS
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:32pm
“I have to say we actually arranged for that, because it made me feel at home. I wouldn’t feel comfortable if I didn’t have at least one heckler.” Obama is never heckled in the U.S. because ALL of his audiences are hand picked crowds that support his lame ass policies …. AND some are even paid to show support. He might can tell that lie in Israel, but that dog don’t hunt in the U.S.

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gothope
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:07pm
why put a link to a hebrew speaking news channel?

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Listen_then_think
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:36pm
I think they should eliminate palestinians from Israel. Israel should not allow any palestinians in to work, shop, buy anything, or even travel through Israel. Then tell those arabs to have their arab brothers take them in and give them jobs, food, and citizenship. See how far it gets them. Their “own” people don’t even want them so why should Israel?

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Chrison
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:35pm
I find it *extremely* ironic that this guy decries the existance of the state of Israel and, yet, he’s actually a citizen and enjoys all of the benefits provided by that state, including a government-subsidized education! Does he think that if Israel were to cease to exist that the Palestinian government would provide him with such benefits? Not likely!

What a schmuck!

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hades3
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:30pm
What ?????? Don’t this guy everybody looooovvveeessss Obama ? Obviously he is a mental case.
If you don’t believe me ask the Obama ki– a– media.

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The0bserver
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:29pm
Where is St Patrick now that we need him to push fifth column vipers like you into the sea?
Just askin’?

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cassandra
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:29pm
didn’t watch his speech because I can’t stand to watch that moron spew any more lies

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kat747
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:29pm
The mere seconds I actually listen to anything this man says, I always translate his words into the opposite…..and then it is correct as to what he actually means.
“Speak with forked tongue”.

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Frederick_Douglass_Republican
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:26pm
The glaring security monkey is acting like this protesting student is the enemy. Soon enough that guy will be dealing with the results of what our disgusting president did while in Israel. All of Israel and the world will be dealing with it.

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- BondmanPhil
  Posted on April 5, 2013 at 12:24pm
  Umm, yeah, that “monkey” is an Israeli. And yeah, that Arab is the enemy. Anyone who wants to destroy your country and push all the Jews into the sea is an enemy. You know, we were created with a set of emotions. While they present us with some challenges, they also allow us rise above the level of animals. Hatred is a survival tool. I can’t recall any people that has defeated (not merely temporarily pacified) its enemies where there was no hatred of the enemy. Ask your grandparents: US servicemen HATED the Germans and Japanese. They had to if they were going to kill them. Likewise, Israelis would be wise to learn to hate the Palestinian Arabs who are determined to kill Israel’s Jews and steal their land. That hatred would make possible a practical solution to the conflict, and probably save many lives.
  
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The0bserver
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:26pm
“Contrary to the dispatch filed in the White House pool report (one TheBlaze quoted on Thursday) that said the heckler shouted in Hebrew demanding Obama free convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, the man is in fact an Israeli Arab who was shouting in Arabic,…”

I don’t believe for a second that they mentioned Pollard accidentally. This was a backhanded way for them to advance the idea that Jews can’t be trusted. The snakes and vipers that lie within.

Second,
“Rabia Eid tells Israel’s Channel 10 News that that “Obama talked about a Jewish state, and that is unacceptable to me and to the Arabs of the world.” Eid is himself an Israeli citizen…”

This protester is an Israeli citizen and he hates it and wants it destroyed? Uh, why is he a “citizen” then? Or rather, why give him or any Islamist citizenship? He should be sent back over that wall with a one way ticket. The snakes and vipers that lie within.

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- BondmanPhil
  Posted on April 5, 2013 at 12:28pm
  You’ve identified the reality of the Israeli fifth column of Arabs, TheObserver. Israelis are slowly beginning to realize that appeasing this fifth column is suicidal. Alternatives are just now being formulated. Over time, I expect practical solutions to the problem. I don’t expect many outside Israel will be happy with these solutions, but, frankly, Israel shouldn’t care what everyone else thinks. Hoepfully, history has taught them at least that much.
  
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Excomunicatedmarine
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:24pm
So the White House wants to use this as a reason to turn a spy loose ? Man they are convinced we are soooo dumb. Lying POS.

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- BondmanPhil
  Posted on April 5, 2013 at 12:30pm
  Believe me, BHO is not releasing Pollard. If you knew any of the facts in that case, you would advocate for his release, not try to paint it as some Jewish conspiracy, Excom.
  
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qualityrkc
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:26pm
The media is controlled by Zionists who do not want the fair minded to hear about what is happening in Palestine. This is red meat for neocons who hate Muslims tho so have fun blazers, you are the modern day Nazi supporters who salivate over killing women and children and stealing homes in Palestine. Some Christians you all are!

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- Excomunicatedmarine
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:30pm
  Better take your meds and then read some history……real history, stuff that was written in the 40′s…. not the rewritten stuff the universities, supported by Arab oil…. are spouting. There is no such thing as a Palestinian ! It is a term made up in the late 50′s ans 60′s by anti Israelis .
  
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- The0bserver
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:40pm
  qualityrkc, since you mention Nazis, now would be a good time to remind you that you lost Palestine because your people supported the Nazis in WWII, for that simple reason that they hated Jews just like Hitler. Peddle your wares elsewhere, I ain’t buying any from you.
  
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- Ben__Franklin
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:03pm
  Don’t bother with him. Those blinded by hate are not hear for a real history lesson. He has already moved on to troll else where with blind ignorance.
  
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- Ben__Franklin
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:07pm
  Oh, and for people like this always ask the question. If there ever was a Palestine – who were its leaders? What did they export? What was their currency? What kind of government did it have democratic or dictatorship?
  
  It always stumps them and they run from the debate.
  
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Solidspine
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:34pm
Why isn’t he impeached, I can’t understand why he isn’t impeached, tried, imprisoned and spending life in prison at Gitmo with the other muslim terrorist

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- hi
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:32pm
  I agree
  
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Joyzee
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:25pm
Our Police should Fear Our Military!.. Hopefully

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YourVoiceMatters
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:49pm
The heckler thinks obama is a zionist! OH that is rich! obama makes us as offended by the speech because he is SOOO pro Palestinian and is clueless to what the Israeli’s face daily…this person who has a better lifestyle and perks than anyone living under a muslim regime and he has the gall to stick his fist in their face…So it leads me to think if the Jews were totally gone THAT would be the only option a Palestinian is interested in! and this jerk proves my point 100%! Possibly they should expatriate the guy to Palestine post haste!

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- qualityrkc
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:28pm
  Obama is 100% Zionist. He denied Palestinian statehood, openly pledges loyalty to Israel at AIPAC conference, and constantly speaks about American and Israeli shared interests when no such thing exists. What could we possibly have in common with a racist apartheid state that kills children and takes their homes! Israel wouldn’t even allow chocolate in Palestine bc chocolate would bring the kids some measure of joy. Obama is without a doubt a Zionist.
  
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- FormerLib
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:55pm
  QUALITYRKC
  
  You are an idiot. Obama can’t prevent a Palestinian State, and ha sin fact said he is for it.
  regardless, “Palestinian” is a fiction created by Arabs as an excuse to destroy Israel from day one. There is no Palestinian language, culture, historical writings or artifacts. Why? Because Palestine is not a nationality or country, it is a region. It would be like people in the US claiming that the Great basin is a country, and demanding a separate state. So-called “Palestinians” are people who either migrated from or were kicked out of for tribal reasons places like Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, etc. When Israel was re-established in 1948, there weren’t very many folks even living there. Arabs want it because Israel has it, pure and simple. Muslims control 22 countries surrounding Israel, and cannot have their entire Middle East caliphate as long as people they consider to be dogs and pigs are living in their midst. Thus the excuse of Palestine to drive them out.
  
  You are entitled to your bigoted opinion, but not your own facts. For an accurate history of “Palestine”, read more here. There are other sources as well.
  
  http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2011/09/the-palestinians-a-fictional-people/
  
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- qualityrkc
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:10pm
  Former lib- Your whole narrative about the formation of Israel is built on a lie but that is besides the point. You say Palestinians have no right to the land but if that is true then what right does a blond haired blue eyed European have there??? To say that you have a right to a land bc of what a holy book says is atrocious and racist. To say only one religion owns a piece of land bc god said so literally insane and racist. God does not give people land! Let me ask you, you claim Palestine never existed and that those people there have no right to the land…how do you think they got there in the first place? You think they are gluttons for punishment and heard Israelis are torturing people in the west bank so they went there? I mean really…
  
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- qualityrkc
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:11pm
  Woops forgot to leave the link. Please view to see the truth about the formation of Israel from someone who knows personally- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtQKr6f_Uwk
  
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- The0bserver
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:32pm
  qualityrkc, your people lost Palestine because your people sided with the Nazis in WWII. Simple as that.
  
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- BondmanPhil
  Posted on April 5, 2013 at 12:41pm
  QualityRKC – What lie is that? That the Jews (as in Judea) were a nation long before Mohammed and his Arabian warriors invaded and occupied the Land of Israel, decimating the non-Arab native population (including the Jews)? That the Jews are the only nation extant to have a history of statehood on this land? That the Jews have returned to their ancestral homeland after 2000 years of forced exile? And so what if some European Jews are blonde haired and blue eyed? Jews come in all colors, thanks to thousands of years of exile and converts. What? Converts don’t count? If that’s true, there would be no legitimate Chrisitians, since every Chrisitian, if you go back far enough, can trace his roots to a non-Chrisitian. Even Jesus was non-Chrisitian, QualityRKC. Your point fails on every level, and only exposes your anti-Semitism. You simply hate the Jews, see them as a fake people, and Israel as a fake country. Once you admit that, there is nothing to discuss. Either Israel is the ancestral homeland of the Jews or its not. The rest is all detail.
  
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jorskippy
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:36pm
Did any of those students actually understand what Obama was saying? Did they all speak English. I had a feeling they were told to applaud. Some did understand… the heckler for one. Any thoughts?

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- BondmanPhil
  Posted on April 5, 2013 at 12:43pm
  Most Israeli college students speak decent English. These are the liberal students of Israel’s leftist university system. BHO was preaching to the choir, as planned. But the leftists in Israel are less than 30% and fading. No worries.
  
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FormerLib
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:27pm
Now the’re the same brilliant minds who said our consulates were sacked and ambassador killed over a 15 minute Youtube movie trailer no one saw. And who said the radical Islamic takeover of Libya, Egypt Tunisia an now Syria is an “Arab Spring.” Ten years ago they were saying “there’s danger over there! We have to deal with it!” Now, there clearly is, but they’re saying “It’s all good! Nothing to see here! How about that Beyonce?”

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CorpsmanToPA
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:27pm
Hmm… Did anyone catch this:

“the president who said: “I have to say we actually arranged for that, because it made me feel at home. I wouldn’t feel comfortable if I didn’t have at least one heckler.”

“Rabia Eid tells Israel’s Channel 10 News that that “Obama talked about a Jewish state, and that is unacceptable to me and to the Arabs of the world.” Eid is himself an Israeli citizen who enjoys the benefits that citizenship affords, including the opportunity to study at a government-funded university.

The Hebrew site Walla reports that security guards quickly removed the man from the venue, to the sound of boos from the audience.

The 24-year-old told Walla, “I shouted against the occupation and to ‘Free Palestine’!””

The irony – Obama wasn’t lying – he must have had the heckler setup because he is a socialist govt fed Israeli student who wants to “Free Palestine”, or in other words decimate Israel.

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:23pm
Obama is a cursed name and should be wiped out of future history books. Just call him the anti-president. Obama is hated in the middle-east too and so are we because of his weakness. When you do not take a side in a war and try to be on both sides, you will get shot at from both sides. Obama will not completely commit America to Israel though he says he does. The very idea of a Pal. state pointed at the heart of Israel and Jerusalem does not bode well for Israeli security. Obama KNOWS that as soon as that state comes to pass it will be loaded up with every army from every arab state in the region. It will advance of Israel at her narrowest point and cut her in two. Isreal cannot let this happen. Obama pretends to be a friend of Isreal but it her most dangerous enemy.

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- Wes Hardin
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:10pm
  If the Jews hadn’t stole the land in the first place they wouldn’t have the problems that they do. Hopefully Iran will get on the ball and nuke up and solve the problem once and for all. There’ll be dancing in the streets when that happens.
  
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- The0bserver
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:43pm
  Wes Hardin, the Jews didn’t steal Palestine. It was your beloved UN that did that. And why? Because the Palestinians supported the Nazi’s in WWII. Spoils of war and all that.
  
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CDRUM
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:11pm
Please remind me why he felt he had to go over there? I’m just wondering what this does to help our country.

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buckeye-jo
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:00pm
Isn’t it about time those in the middle east who hate Israel just get over themselves already? It’s been old for quite some time now. Get over it and get on with your lives.

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- qualityrkc
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:05pm
  You dumb hillbilly THAT IS THE POINT! Live in Palestine for a week and tell me about moving on and living your life. You try living your life when you have to stop for hours at a time at a security checkpoint in the middle of YOUR town bc the Israeli government is concerned with the security of 600 illegal fundamentalist jew settlers in a city with 165,000 arabs. I know low iq people have trouble feeling empathy but I want you to imagine how this would feel to you if 30 muslims moved into your town under force of a foreign government then that same government sets up security checkpoints to keep those 30 muslims safe while it takes you 6 hours to go .5 miles across YOUR town to get some milk while being manhandled and searched by these foreign government agents who are calling you racist names while they do so. This is the reality for Palestinian people and if you were not so bombarded by Zionist propaganda. Food for thought: Zionism is invented in 1897 by Theodor Herzl (not a very good guy…look him up) and 50 years later Israel is founded. Now you can believe that is a coincidence or an accomplishment but the facts point to the latter. Everything we have been taught about our history was crafted by the powerful. A lot of things we know are true today we may find were never true tomorrow because you can never know what you do not know. Keep an open mind before you form any concrete opinions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.-American Jew
  
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- BondmanPhil
  Posted on April 5, 2013 at 12:51pm
  QualityRKC – I’m gonna take a wild guess that, based on your perception of reality in Israel, you have never set foot in Israel (Ramallah doesn’t count). Your starting point in history, 1897, is rather convenient for you, but I start much earlier, as far back as recorded history would allow. Too bad for you the Nation of Israel is much older than 116 years, and it has returned to its ancestral homeland to stay. Try to deal – the Jews aren’t going to march quietly into the gas chambers anymore. Those passive Jews were murdered. The survivors are strong, and determined to fight for their lives, their families, their land and their God. Don’t like it? Tough. Bring it, QualityRKC. The Jews are ready.
  
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icarenough
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:55pm
Far as I’m concerned, turn all the sand into glass. These people know nothing but hate and violence, and we’ll never, ever turn any part of that world into a democracy, so glass is the answer.

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- BondmanPhil
  Posted on April 5, 2013 at 12:52pm
  Umm, Israel is a democracy, ICAREENOUGH, and has been for 65 years.
  
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Matrix22
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:07pm
Wait…wait…wait…I thought this Administration was LOVED by all Arabs? Weren’t all the bribes enough?

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