Obama "understands" why Hamas endorsed him
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While maintaining an ironclad commitment to Israel's security, Barack Obama says he understood why a top Hamas adviser voiced support for his presidential bid."It's conceivable that there are those in the Arab world who say to themselves, 'This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein and appears more worldly and has called for talks with people, and so he's not going to be engaging in the same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush,'" Obama said in an interview with The Atlantic.
"That's a perfectly legitimate perception as long as they're not confused about my unyielding support for Israel's security," Obama said.
I remind you of the statements of an Obama support from Chicago who runs the website Electronic Intifada:
The last time I spoke to Obama was in the winter of 2004 at a gathering in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. He was in the midst of a primary campaign to secure the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate seat he now occupies. ... As he came in from the cold and took off his coat, I went up to greet him. He responded warmly, and volunteered, "Hey, I'm sorry I haven't said more about Palestine right now, but we are in a tough primary race. I'm hoping when things calm down I can be more up front." He referred to my activism, including columns I was contributing to the The Chicago Tribune critical of Israeli and US policy, "Keep up the good work!"
Or to quote the LA Times story entitled "Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Barack Obama":
And yet the warm embrace Obama gave to Khalidi, and words like those at the professor's going-away party, have left some Palestinian American leaders believing that Obama is more receptive to their viewpoint than he is willing to say.
Maybe the answer is just that where there is smoke, there is fire. Any maybe his long-time supporters know him better than the reporters infatuated with him.
"The check is in the mail."
"I promise I'll only put the tip in."
"I did not have sex with that woman -- Miss Lewinsky."
"That's a perfectly legitimate perception as long as they're not confused about my unyielding support for Israel's security."
Self-serving lies, and the self-serving liars who tell them.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa
Hamas would probably be saying the same things about Hillary if she were a man. The worst is possible with Obama but it could also be that they just have a crush on him like so many others.
Hussein,
I've just met a guy named Hussein.
Say it soft, and it's almost like praying,
Say it loud, and it's like music playing,
Hussein, Hussei-eeeen!...
And this is simply Clinfreudian:
"appears to be worldly"
No one else has the guts to.
Joseph Cirincione anyone? Still looking.
care what Hamas thinks? This is the umpteenth diary written about a terror-supporting organization and their opinions. I understand your thoughts of Obama being a worse candidate than numerous others against on the war on terror - but I can find it a bit more persuasive when the sources aren't Hamas, Bin Laden or any other terror groups.
I've been very critical of the Caroline Glick crowd. The last thing the Israelis need to do is to hold on to the Settlements; it's national suicide for them to remain mixed up with the Pallies. Indeed, the last thing Hamas wants is for Israeli withdrawal and separation; to them it "unscrambles the egg". In a far larger sense, Rice is doing them a favor by insisting that they withdrawal, as she has an understanding of the demographic changes going on that too many on the Israeli right aren't willing to consider. In a sense, she's merely repeating back to them what Ben-Gurion told them in the wake of the 1967 War-don't try to rule the Arabs.
However, Obama is, in all probability, pro-Palestinian (given the influence of Jeremiah Wright, especially), and this goes too far in the other direction. He's probably unwilling to acknowledge that Palestinian politics is eliminationist and genocidal, and his sympathies are probably radical chic (given the William Ayers/Bernadine Dohrn tendancy).
There's plenty of rich material here left to be smoked out.
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it"-Winston Churchill