Ynet offers some fascinating details of Barack Obama’s half-brother, his political and business activities, as well as the fact that he is in regular contact with President Obama. Some excerpts:
While US President Barack Obama was busy orchestrating the assassination of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, his half brother Mark Ndesandjo reconnected with his Jewish roots on his first trip to Israel.
Ndesandjo, 45, was born to Barack Obama Senior’s third wife, a Jewish American kindergarten teacher and the daughter of Lithuanian immigrants.
Ndesandjo’s trip to the Holy Land was kept a secret for fear that he would fall victim to hostile attempts to avenge the US-perpetrated assassination of bin Laden.
One of the main purposes of Ndesandjo’s visit was to meet with the Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, Yona Metzger, to receive a blessing and a letter for his mother, Ruth Nidesand.
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According to Metzger, Ndesandjo has met with Obama a few times since the latter took office, and they are in regular telephone contact.
Before concluding their meeting, Metzger said that he asked Ndesandjo to do “a noble favor for the Jewish people” – to try to convince Obama to release Jonathan Pollard, who has been serving a life sentence in the US since he was convicted of spying for Israel in 1986.
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Ndesandjo studied Physics at Brown and Stanford, and has an MBA from Emory University. In 2002 he relocated from the US to China, where he married Liu Xuehua. In 2009 he published an autobiography titled “Nairobi to Shenzhen: A Novel of Love,” where he describes, among other things, growing up with an abusive, alcoholic father. Ndesandjo currently runs an internet company, World Nexus, which advises Chinese companies on international markets.