pajamasmedia.com - 11/12/2008
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Yet another clash between Obama’s anodyne public statements and behind-the-scenes activities of a different nature.
reuters.com - 11/5/2008
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reuters.com —
GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas fired dozens of rockets
at Israel on Wednesday after Israeli forces killed six...
Palestinian militants in an eruption of violence that disrupted a four-month-old truce along the Gaza frontier. The rocket attacks, which included ...
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Israel-Hamas violence disrupts Gaza truce
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grasstopsusa.com - 11/18/2008
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grasstopsusa.com —
Was the candidate of choice of terrorists and
totalitarians. In April, Ahmed Yousef, a top Hamas political...
advisor, called Obama a “great man, with great principles” and “a vision to change.” The ruling regimes in Iran, Syria and Libya fairly ...
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GrasstopsUSA.com
ynetnews.com - 11/11/2008
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ynetnews.com —
Ismail Haniyeh's political advisor says Islamist group met
with US president-elect's aides in Strip following online correspondence;...
'they told us not to come out with any statements so as not to harm Obama's campaign,' Ahmad Yousuf says Roee Nahmias ...
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Hamas says met Obama advisors in Gaza - Israel News, ...
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Obama-Hamas Contacts Bode Ill
USS Neverdock —
Why would anyone be surprised by this?
Can We Talk?
Power Line —
... Apparently, though, that assurance was inoperative even when Obama gave it. Yesterday, in an interview in the London-based Al-Hayat, Ahmad Yousef, political adviser to Hamas's Prime Minister, said that Obama's aides have already been meeting with senior Hamas officials: ...
Did the Obama Campaign Hold Secret Talks with Hamas?
Little Green Footballs —
... P. David Hornik has a piece at Pajamas Media on the reports in Arab media that the Obama campaign held secret talks with Hamas and asked them not to reveal it: Reported Obama-Hamas Contacts Bode Ill. ...
Those Troubling Hamabama Connections
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Reported Obama-Hamas Contacts Bode Ill
Another clash between Obama’s public statements and his team’s behind-the-scenes activities.
by P. David Hornik - (PJM)
In an interview published Tuesday in the London-based Al-Hayat, Dr. Ahmad Yousef, political adviser to Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, said senior Hamas figures had held a secret meeting with advisers to Barack Obama in Gaza before the U.S. elections.
Throughout his campaign Obama’s official line was that he would “only talk with Hamas if it renounces ...
THE ENEMY HAS TOLD US ONCE AGAIN, THEY DO NOT WANT TO TALK. SO, ARE YOU LISTENING APPEASING DOVES!!?!?!?!
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
... Web site. Blair is the Middle East envoy for the quartet of Middle East peace negotiators - the United States, the United Nations, Russia and the European Union. ... Blair repeated the Quartet position that there can be no talks, official or unofficial, with Hamas until they renounce violence and recognize Israel. However, he said that his "basic predisposition is that in a situation like this you talk to everybody." RECENTLY, THEY WERE REPORTS OBAMA HAS REACHED OUT TO THEM. AND HIS SUPPORTER AND IDOL, ...
Obama’s Order Not To Rescue Hostage Confirmed by National Security Advisor and Pentagon [Reader Post]
Flopping Aces —
... with the pirates. It is a world view in which negotiating is always seen as the better or higher course. But Obama might not be this kind of well-meaning Democrat. The more worrisome possibility is that what looks like a kumbaya-type penchant for negotiation with everybody may only be a ruse. After all, Obama is certainly not interested in negotiating with his real enemies: the Republicans, yet he is interested in negotiating with Syria and Iran, with Hamas, with the mythical “moderate Taliban,” and every other Islamic supremacist entity he can ...
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