The Guardian: Obama "Prepared To Talk With Hamas"

The Gaurdian, a British newspaper, is reporting that "the incoming Obama administration is prepared to abandon George Bush's ­doctrine of isolating Hamas by establishing a channel to the Islamist organisation, sources close to the transition team say. The move to open contacts with Hamas, which could be initiated through the US intelligence services, would represent a definitive break with the Bush ­presidency's ostracising of the group. The state department has designated Hamas a terrorist organisation, and in 2006 ­Congress passed a law banning US financial aid to the group. The Guardian has spoken to three ­people with knowledge of the discussions in the Obama camp. There is no talk of Obama approving direct diplomatic negotiations with Hamas early on, but he is being urged by advisers to initiate low-level or clandestine approaches, and there is growing recognition in Washington that the policy of ostracising Hamas is counter-productive."
If this is true it would represent a terrible anti-Israel shift in the American government. George Bush has refused any talks with likes of Hamas, a terror organization bent on the complete destruction of Israel. The Hamas charter states in no uncertain terms that “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." Initiating contacts with an Islamofascist organization bent on jihad against Israel would be a dangerous move for our government in a very wrong direction. Meanwhile, it should come as no surprise that the UN, nothing more than the organization of nations united against Israel, passed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Friday. Israel has thus far chosen to dismiss and ignore the "binding" Security Council resolution pointing out that Hamas Islamoterrorists had fired at least 30 rockets into its territory on Friday. For some reason the United States abstained in the U.N. vote, but offered further public support for Israel's military goals with White House spokesman Scott Stanzel putting the blame squarely on Hamas saying "this situation will not improve until Hamas stops lobbing rockets into Israel."

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