Secret Meetings With Hamas? Hooray for Change!
Posted by Meg | Posted in Big Issues, Foreign Policy, Must See, News, Obama, Quotes, Secrets, Supporters, Terrorism | Posted on 14-11-2008
Tags: Barack Obama, Hamas, Israel, News, Palestine, scary, secret meetings, Terrorism, terrorists
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According to Ahmad Yousuf, a political advisor to the leader of the terrorist Islamic group Hamas, Barack Obama’s campaign held secret meetings with Hamas during the Presidential race. But Obama’s representatives made sure to let Hamas know to keep quiet about these meetings, for fear that the American people might not like this so much and it might harm his electoral prospects.
Hmm, ya think?!
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Hamas says met Obama advisors in Gaza
Israel News – Roee Nahmias – 11.11.08Ahmad Yousuf, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s political advisor, said that during the recent US presidential race a secret meeting between senior Islamist group figures and advisors to President-elect Barack Obama was held in Gaza.
“We were in contact with a number of Obama’s aides through the Internet, and later met with some of them in Gaza, but they advised us not to come out with any statements, as they may have a negative effect on his election campaign and be used by Republican candidate John McCain (to attack Obama),” Yousuf said in an interview with London-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat, published Tuesday
Yousuf said Hamas’s contact with Obama’s advisors was ongoing, adding that he was still on good terms with some of the aides he had befriended while residing in the US.
According to Yousuf, Haniyeh will send Obama a telegram congratulating him on his victory.
“The policy Obama will instate in the Middle East will differ from that of his predecessor George W. Bush, although it is clear that the region and the Palestinian issue will not be at the top of his agenda,” Yousef told Al-Hayat, “(the president-elect) will focus more on the economic crisis, Iraq and Afghanistan.”
I think this is the first time in our history that a President-elect will receive a congratulatory telegram from not just a known and active terrorist, but the leader of one of the world’s most deadly terrorist organizations. Hooray for change!
Hat-tip to Occidental Soapbox for the story! If you haven’t seen that blog, you really need to go check it out.
Isn’t one form of treason conspiring with the enemy during times of war? According to the US Department of State Hamas is classified as a terrorist organization (http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/rpt/fto/2801.htm), the US is currently waging a “War on Terror”.