Palestinians say hopes in Obama 'evaporated'

AP on Yahoo ^ | 10/13/09 | Amy Teibel - ap

[NormsRevenge]

JERUSALEM – The Palestinian president's political party says all hopes in the Obama administration have "evaporated," accusing the White House of caving in to pressure from the pro-Israel lobby and backing off a demand to freeze Jewish settlement.

Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party also accused the U.S. of failing to set a clear agenda for a new round of Mideast peace talks, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday.

"All hopes placed in the new U.S. administration and President Obama have evaporated," the document said. Obama "couldn't withstand the pressure of the Zionist lobby, which led to a retreat from his previous positions on halting settlement construction and defining an agenda for the negotiations and peace."

The Palestinians initially greeted Obama's election with enthusiasm, welcoming his outreach to the Muslim world and hoping he would depart from what they viewed as the pro-Israel bias of his predecessor, George W. Bush.

[NormsRevenge]

Hope.

Poof.

Next!

[rovenstinez]

You know, I REALLY think it’s time for the entire world to start learning how to solve their own problems, and stop looking to the USA, and especially to a Presidnet that doesn’t know where he is going, and Heavens knows where he is taking the rest of us. Poor Palestinians if they had placed hope in this one.

[americanophile]

Maybe the ‘political party’ of a powerless faux president of a non-existent state should stop clinging to jihadi fantasies about a Jew-free Middle East and get busy with making peace themselves.

[Doogle]

"..there...ah...ah...must be ..ah...door...ah...somewhere"

[Joan Kerrey]

get busy with making peace themselves.

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Generation after generation of Palestinians have been taught to hate and kill Jews. It’s embedded in their DNA.
It’s in their mosques, it’s in their schools, it’s on their TVs and it taught at home, in public and in all of it’s institutions. No amount of effort to make peace will be sucessful, considering this. The palestinians have chosen their path. Let them live with the results.

[Two Kids' Dad]

0bama got a pretty good sized chucnk of campaign cash from the Middle East and they thought they were buying something.

If 0bama even tries to run for a 2nd term (insert standard birther caveat here) he’ll see his money dwindle to a small fraction of what his “hopenchange” campaign was able to raise. Especially now that ACORN isn’t the force it once was.

[stylin19a]

"he Palestinian president's political party says all hopes in the Obama administration have "evaporated,""

Then give the money back....

[cranked]

Hope and Change come and gone.
How’s that Nobel Peace Prize coming along, Barry....?

[Clintons Are White Trash]

Never thought I’d have anything in common with the Palestinians....

[Mack Truck]

The so-called Palestinians and Obama both have fabricated histories. He’s the man who never was and they’re the people who never were. The joke might be that the con man Obama has conned the Hamas and Hezbolla terrorist organizations, as he has everyone else in his life so far.

[Right Wing Assault]

No, no, no! The Noble committee is sure he will be able to do something having to do with peace. Someday. Hang in there, folks! Them Europeans are good for their word.

[NormsRevenge]

I guess navigating wasn’t part of his programming regime. He is special. lol

[vpintheak]

Pali’s will never be happy. Their people were cursed by God a long time ago. Obambi needs to give his Nobel back, the turd.

[SunkenCiv]

As if they're the only ones.

• Fatah: Hopes in Obama 'evaporated'