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Report: Hamas says its officials met Obama aides before U.S. election
Haaretz ^ | November 11, 2008 | Avi Issacharoff

Posted on 11/11/2008 9:08:41 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The Arab daily Al-Hayat on Tuesday quoted a senior Hamas official as saying that United States President-elect Barack Obama's advisors met with members of the Palestinian militant group before the U.S. presidential election.

Ahmed Yusuf, a political advisor to Hamas' Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh, reportedly told the London-based paper that, "The connection was made via email and after that we met with them in Gaza."

Al-Hayat reported that Yusuf also said the relations were maintained after Obama's electoral victory last Tuesday. He said the president-elect's advisors requested that the relations be kept secret so as not to aid his rival, Senator John McCain.

During Obama's campaign, he pledged that his administration would only hold talks with Hamas if it renounced terrorism, recognized Israel's right to exist, and abided by past agreements.

(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2008; appeaseniks; bho2008; election; elections; gaza; hamas; husseinobama; loganact; malley; obama; palestine; presidentelectobama; robertmalley; terroristvote; treason; wot
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What else don't we know about?
1 posted on 11/11/2008 9:08:42 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

get Obama on the record.....


2 posted on 11/11/2008 9:09:30 AM PST by tomnbeverly (Obamanation, here comes the pogrom against Conservatives.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
drip, drip, drip...every day we find more disturbing information about our next ruler. how long until the undecided voters that went for obama start to rue the day?
3 posted on 11/11/2008 9:11:16 AM PST by CanadianMusherinMI (drill baby drill/mine baby mine!)
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To: tomnbeverly

This dude has already broken so many laws it’s not even funny.


4 posted on 11/11/2008 9:11:32 AM PST by AnglePark
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

has anyone noticed that most of the info about obama comes from overseas and not our media.?
Will our media follow this up and will the Jewish folk actually look at this instead of keeping their blinkers on?
Will questions be asked as to why this report came out and why they felt to need terrorists?

I await with bated breath


5 posted on 11/11/2008 9:12:51 AM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What else don't we know about?

Hamma probably contributed millions of bucks to the Obama campaign through the untraceable way the Obama camp tracked credit card contributions. I would bet there were about $100 million in illegal foreign contributions mostly originating from terrorist countries.

6 posted on 11/11/2008 9:14:00 AM PST by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Related link....

Obama Sends Man Linked With Terror Group AND George Soros to Deal With Egypt/Syria

7 posted on 11/11/2008 9:14:43 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

so obama will meet with these murderers, and all he says is that they have to say a few words and then that is that for obama.

We all know this but will the public know this from our biased disgusting unprofessional media


8 posted on 11/11/2008 9:15:16 AM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: manc

Don’t confuse JINOs with actual Jews.


9 posted on 11/11/2008 9:15:24 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (A Jew voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; ...
What else don't we know about?

Exactly. I'm waiting for the day when the stupid sheeple who voted B. Hussein Obama into office as the Leader of the Free World realize just what they did to our beloved country.

Hope it doesn't take another 9/11 to wake these idiots up...

10 posted on 11/11/2008 9:15:48 AM PST by nutmeg (Palin/Jindal or Jindal/Palin 2012)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who knows what Obama promised or told them

He probably doesn’t even remember himself

Lot of left wingers and muslims going to be Poed at this fool if they believed anything he said


11 posted on 11/11/2008 9:16:18 AM PST by uncbob
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
During Obama's campaign, he pledged that his administration would only hold talks with Hamas if it renounced terrorism, recognized Israel's right to exist, and abided by past agreements.

I suppose they're still working on those items...
12 posted on 11/11/2008 9:16:27 AM PST by Sopater (I'm so sick of atheists shoving their religion in my face.)
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To: MeanWestTexan

correct it should have read most Jewish folk who voted fro obama and wo donated money


13 posted on 11/11/2008 9:16:32 AM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: tomnbeverly
Report: Hamas says its officials met Obama aides before U.S. election

And, my proudness of our new president grows larger still. PA UKE!!

14 posted on 11/11/2008 9:17:14 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: nutmeg
Hope it doesn't take another 9/11 to wake these idiots up...

I fear even THAT won't do it anymore.

15 posted on 11/11/2008 9:18:19 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hussein was only elected a week ago and already the stories come out about shady dealings and leaks. Man! This is going to be a lllooonnnggg 4 years.


16 posted on 11/11/2008 9:18:48 AM PST by scory
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama voters are the electoral equivalent of the O.J. Jury. Only a few thousand orders of magnitude worse.

Damn idiots.


17 posted on 11/11/2008 9:20:33 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Flood's coming. Texas is the Ark.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

His past(danger)


18 posted on 11/11/2008 9:20:36 AM PST by Vaduz (and just think how clean the cities would become again.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, this list may be a little dated, but #12 on this list of Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations is HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement.

http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/37191.htm

One wonders if the prohibition against providing “expert advice” includes political and lobbying advice. I’m sure there was some “specialized knowledge” shared.


19 posted on 11/11/2008 9:21:12 AM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: manc
I spoke to a customer yesterday from Chicago who moved to Colorado. He was well aware of BHO’s politics and was disgusted with the election and media.
He said BHO had a 3 pack a day Marlborough red habit but the media would never photograph him smoking and if someone did, his staff would make sure the photo would not be published.

Now I heard BHO say one time he started smoking again during the election but nothing else.

The media will stop at nothing to make their darling appear perfect to the world. As Chrissy Matthews stated, it his his job to make sure BHO is successful

20 posted on 11/11/2008 9:21:22 AM PST by Glacier Honey (`)
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To: manc

I am laughing at the Jews who voted for Obama. What a bunch of jerks. I hope they are happy when Israel goes away because they will have blood on their hands. Over and over again throughout history...Jews bring it on themselves.

While I empathize with the plight of millions of Jews during WWII, there will be no additional empathy for a people who have obtained self determination and throw themselves over a cliff, anyway.


21 posted on 11/11/2008 9:21:51 AM PST by johnnycap
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m sure he just wanted to send his thanks to the two Palestinian brothers for their generous illegal donation to his campaign.


22 posted on 11/11/2008 9:22:56 AM PST by 444Flyer (THANK YOU VETERANS!!! All gave some, Some gave all.)
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To: P-Marlowe

Ping.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.


23 posted on 11/11/2008 9:24:23 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: manc

Sorry to be annoying.

It would be like holding up Harry Reid as an example of Mormons or

Clinton as a Baptist;

Biden and Pelosi, Kennedy, and John Kerry as examples of Roman Catholicism.

The JINOs that support Obama may be decendants of Abraham, but they reject Biblical Judaism -— indeed, any religion.


24 posted on 11/11/2008 9:24:34 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (A Jew voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.)
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To: Puppage; stanz
Hope it doesn't take another 9/11 to wake these idiots up...

I fear even THAT won't do it anymore.

I agree. So many people have forgotten, even a couple of years after 9/11/01. Amazingly, many of these libs who voted Hussein into office live in NYC, not far from Ground Zero. I just don't get it...

25 posted on 11/11/2008 9:25:00 AM PST by nutmeg (Palin/Jindal or Jindal/Palin 2012)
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To: tomnbeverly

Has his highness commented on this? It’s going to be most interesting to watch how he reacts to fellow international thugs.


26 posted on 11/11/2008 9:26:57 AM PST by sarasota
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To: AnglePark
This dude has already broken so many laws it’s not even funny.

But he's black (well 1/2), so to question him is to be a racist.
27 posted on 11/11/2008 9:27:50 AM PST by Sig Sauer P220 (Thanks to the robber barons in D.C. and on Wall St. I've been forced to become a minimalist.)
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To: johnnycap

You’re not laughing at Jews. You’re laughing at secular Marxists from Jewish lineage. No different than the secular Marxists from Catholic lineage who voted for a man who promised to force their hospitals to kill children or close their doors.

The real Jews, the ones who actually practice their faith and honor their Creator, are on the front lines of what’s to come. And there’s nothing to laugh at.


28 posted on 11/11/2008 9:27:55 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Flood's coming. Texas is the Ark.)
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To: Puppage

Another 9/11 will somehow be a continuation of the Bush conspirary which brought down the towers. I actually know someone who believes that!


29 posted on 11/11/2008 9:29:46 AM PST by sarasota
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To: Saoirise; F15Eagle; SJackson; Convert from ECUSA; Salem; Alouette; Nachum; forkinsocket; ...

Ping.


30 posted on 11/11/2008 9:32:51 AM PST by 444Flyer (THANK YOU VETERANS!!! All gave some, Some gave all.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Wonder if they discussed if Rahm Emanuel was a Mossad agent? Bwah!
31 posted on 11/11/2008 9:33:30 AM PST by McGruff (Sarah, plowing through the door in 2012.)
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To: nutmeg

Thanks for the ping!


32 posted on 11/11/2008 9:35:45 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: devolve; All; Glacier Honey
Here's one to save. Can't miss this one!!


33 posted on 11/11/2008 9:40:43 AM PST by potlatch
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To: johnnycap; WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

You can say the same thing about the CINOS (Christians in name only) who voted for 0.

What Whistling wrote was right on:
“The real Jews, the ones who actually practice their faith and honor their Creator, are on the front lines of what’s to come. And there’s nothing to laugh at.”


34 posted on 11/11/2008 9:41:34 AM PST by 444Flyer (THANK YOU VETERANS!!! All gave some, Some gave all.)
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To: MeanWestTexan
True, there are secular Jews and practicing Jews.

But, this is not about religion. The secular Jews have sold out the nation of Israel.

This is about supporting those who support the destruction of that nation. Do secular Jews not care about the nation of Israel?

35 posted on 11/11/2008 9:42:39 AM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; holdonnow
He said the president-elect's advisors requested that the (Obama > Hamas) relations be kept secret.

Hold the phone!

He keeps his meetings with Hamas secret, but he gladly leaks to the press that the US has been carrying out secret attacks on al-Qaeda since 2004?

WTF?!

Our marxist bastard "President-elect" is committing treason, is he not?

36 posted on 11/11/2008 9:42:52 AM PST by library user
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Did they hold hands and sing Kumbayah?

ML/NJ

37 posted on 11/11/2008 9:43:01 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: potlatch
Thank goodness we're getting a president who, unlike the evil Bush, is a fine example for the youth of America.
38 posted on 11/11/2008 9:44:14 AM PST by denydenydeny (ui)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Get ready for a LOT more of this.


39 posted on 11/11/2008 9:48:27 AM PST by Tzimisce (http://groups.myspace.com/nailthemessiah)
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To: denydenydeny; devolve
Lol, well he has a hundred other attributes that are much worse than smoking but we can't let any of them be hidden away.
40 posted on 11/11/2008 9:48:44 AM PST by potlatch
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wouldn’t be funny if Persident Bush had Obama arrested and sent to GITMO for waterboarding?


41 posted on 11/11/2008 9:51:48 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Swift denial from Obama, but some interesting additional details:

Obama adviser denies Hamas meeting

The office of the President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday denied a report by Arab sources which claimed that a secret meeting was held between Hamas and Obama’s aides in the Gaza Strip prior to the US general elections.

“This assertion is just plain false,” Obama’s Senior Foreign Policy Adviser Denis McDonough told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.

Earlier, Hamas political adviser Ahmad Yousef claimed on Tuesday morning that before the US general elections, a secret meeting was held between officials from the group and President-elect Barack Obama’s advisers in the Gaza Strip.

“We are maintaining contact with them”, said Yousef who disclosed no further information as to the nature of the meeting.

In an interview with the London-based Al Hayat newspaper, Yousef reportedly said that contact between Hamas and Obama’s advisers was first established over the Internet.

“We first made contact on the Internet and then met with some of them here in the Gaza Strip. They advised us not to reveal this information lest it influence the elections or become manipulated by [Republican candidate John] McCain's campaign”.

Yousef added that he personally had friendly relations with a few of Obama’s advisers whom he had met when he lived in the US.

“Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh will draft a congratulatory letter to Obama for his victory in the elections,” added Yousef.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1225910089501&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter

42 posted on 11/11/2008 9:52:57 AM PST by mojito
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To: denydenydeny

George Kingfish Stevens?


43 posted on 11/11/2008 9:54:03 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15)
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To: MeanWestTexan

not annoying at all
that is the beauty of the right, we will listen to others and not try to silence people by name calling or putting down

I agree on what you are getting at and I do not see how those groups could elect a man who wants abortion and homo’s to get married.


44 posted on 11/11/2008 9:56:29 AM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: manc
so obama will meet with these murderers, and all he says is that they have to say a few words and then that is that for obama

So why didn't Obama's "aides" leak information about this meeting and it's contents before the election?

So meeting with OUR President about OUR security is leakable info for the Obama camp ... yet our enemies secrets stay secrets?

We are so screwed.

45 posted on 11/11/2008 10:00:09 AM PST by softwarecreator (Wow, free food, free gas and no more mortgage payments after January 2009, thanks Obama!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is that legal?


46 posted on 11/11/2008 10:03:40 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (SARAH *** JOE *** 2012!)
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Well, someone is a liar. Either the meeting took place and the Obama administration is lying, or it did not take place, in which case, the Obama administration now gets its first look at lying and manipulation from the "Gaza Strip".

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Either way, the Obama administration is going to be tested and pushed around. I don't think Chicago style politics is going to last too long on the world stage however.

47 posted on 11/11/2008 10:03:45 AM PST by Michael Barnes
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Awww... come on. They’re just trying to figure out which bank account to deposit the money into. These things take a lot of coordination.


48 posted on 11/11/2008 10:04:13 AM PST by conservativeharleyguy (If dissent is "patriotic", I just became America's loudest Patriot!)
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To: softwarecreator

I wonder just how much money of ours he will give to Hamas and Hizbullah.
It truly is astonishing that this man with his past and connection can be where he is. We had a man who I might not have agreed with everything but he did serve his country and gave 5 years of his life to a man who has never done anything for this country and yet it is he who gets nominated by voter fraud, illegal money , millions I might add and the media who helped to tell lies, never reported on issues and who went so far out for obama is was cringe worthy to watch.

I would like to known why our party and McCain is not trying to stop this prepaid cards, illegal money and the media’s involvement
Why is not Bush telling the feds and the state dept to look into this.
All what will happen is that in 4 years we will face all this again unless the GOP gets some balls and stops it now.

Name names we were told . Then go for it name names in the media who did this, how much illegal money did Soros give, how much came from overseas.How many illegal votes were cast i our swing state? Just in GA over 100,000 voters casted duel votes in the FL and OH election, now imagine how many from the northeast voted in FL’s election with them using their getaway vacation addresses.

We have a right to know about our country.


49 posted on 11/11/2008 10:09:37 AM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: mojito
A quick thought.

Is this not good?

BO denies>

Hamas finds out that he is a total flake.

Great start.

President of Poland called a liar.

Hamas called a liar (which of course they are, but I doubt that they like BO saying so).

Insults Nancy R.

Makes President Bush mad by leaking personal conversation.

Off to a great start.

50 posted on 11/11/2008 10:12:04 AM PST by old curmudgeon
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