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Mar 19, 2009 21:22 | Updated Mar 19, 2009 21:44
Column One: Hamas's free lunch
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By CAROLINE GLICK 
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Today Hamas stands on the cusp of international acceptance. It may
take a week or a month or a year, chinese tutor chicago today Hamas stands learn chinese chicago Fatah
and the PLO stood in the late 1980s. The genocidal jihadist terror
group is but a step away from an invitation to the Oval Office. Two
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First, last Saturday, The Boston Globe reported that Paul Volcker, who
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several former senior US officials have written a letter to Obama
calling for the US to recognize Hamas. As one of the signatories,
Brent Scowcroft, who was national security adviser under president
George H.W. Bush, explained, "I see no reason not to talk heart shape playing cards Hamas."
Scowcroft further argued, "The main gist is that you need to push hard
on the Palestinian peace process. Don't move it to end of your agenda
and say you have too much to do. And the US needs to have a position,
not just hold their coats while they sit down."
Congressional sources claim that Obama has selected Scowcroft to
replace Chas Freeman as chairman of the National Intelligence Council.
The second reason that it is becoming apparent that the Obama
administration is poised to recognize Hamas is that on Thursday,
Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman held talks at the State
Department with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and enjoined the
administration to support indie fashion reestablishment of a Hamas-Fatah unity
government to control and reunify the Palestinian Authority in Gaza
and Judea and Samaria.
This is significant because it is becoming apparent that top
administration officials only meet with people who tell them what they
want to hear.
Case in point is best life insurance Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi's
trip this week to Washington. Ashkenazi went to the US to brief top
administration officials on Iran's progress toward a nuclear bomb.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Ashkenazi's counterpart, Adm.
Michael Mullen, both managed to be out of town. Defense Ministry
sources say that Ashkenazi only met with National Security Adviser
James Jones, who reportedly wished to speak exclusively about the
Palestinians, and with Clinton's Iran adviser Dennis Ross, whose role
in shaping US policy toward Iran remains unclear.
Hamas, for its part, prefers the unconditional recognition recommended
by Scowcroft and Volcker and their colleagues, (who include unofficial
Obama advisers Zbigniew Brzezinski and Lee Hamilton), over the option
of forming a government with Fatah. After all, why should Hamas agree
to share power with Fatah to gain international acceptance if
Washington power brokers close to the administration endorse
unconditional recognition of the terror group?
Scowcroft's statement that recognition of Hamas is necessary because
"you need to push hard on the Palestinian peace process" is indicative
of how Obama's milieu views the peace process. For them, pushing hard
on the peace process is more important than determining or even caring
if the Palestinians involved in the said process are genocidal terror
groups or not, or determining or even caring whether the said peace
process has any chance whatsoever of leading to peace.
AND THE Obama view is not particularly new. After Hamas won the 2006
Palestinian elections, in the interest of the peace process, the US
and the EU placed certain conditions on Hamas which they claimed it
would have to meet before the West would recognize it.
The US and Europe said they would recognize Hamas if it renters insurance that
it forswore terror, accepted Israel's right to exist, and committed
itself to carrying out previous agreements signed between the PLO and
Israel. The Americans and the Europeans undoubtedly viewed these
conditions as a low bar to cross. After all, the PLO crossed it.
The West's conditions were given with chinese chicago bridge size playing cards and a nod. Everyone
understood that the only thing it wanted was for Hamas to say the
magic words. They didn't have to be true. If Khaled Mashaal and Ismail
Haniyeh would just tell the US and Europe what they wanted to hear,
all would be forgiven. Hamas - like the PLO before it - would be
removed from the US and European terror lists. Billions would pour
into the bank accounts of Hamas leaders in Gaza and Damascus. The CIA
might even agree to train its terror forces.
cheap house insurance is obvious that all that the West wanted was for Hamas to lie to
it, because that is all it ever required from the PLO. After Yasser
Arafat surfboard shape playing cards the magic words, the Americans and the Europeans were only
too happy to ignore the cheap life insurance that he was lying.
When immediately after signing the initial peace accord with Israel on
the White House lawn on September 13, 1993, Arafat flew to South
Africa and gave a speech calling for jihad against Israel, no one
cared.
When Arafat destroyed the free press in Judea, Samaria and Gaza and
transformed the Palestinian media into propaganda organs calling for
the eradication of Israel and the Jewish people, the world yawned.
When he launched his terror war against Israel and his US-trained
forces began plotting and carrying out bombings of Israeli civilians,
the US announced its chief goal in the learn mandarin chicago East was to establish a
Palestinian state.
And when Arafat's successor, Mahmoud Abbas, announced that Fatah
didn't accept Israel's right to exist and considered terrorism against
Israel legitimate, he was declared the indispensable and sole
legitimate Palestinian leader. Indeed, when custom playing cards US-trained forces
surrendered to Hamas in Gaza without a fight, the US showered an
additional $80 million on Fatah forces.
ON TUESDAY, Fatah strongman and the West's favorite son of Palestine
Muhammad Dahlan tried to explain the facts of life to Hamas.
In an interview on PA television, Dahlan became the first senior Fatah
official to openly admit that Fatah has never accepted Israel's right
to exist. Dahlan denied reports that in the negotiations toward a
Hamas-Fatah government, Fatah representatives are pressuring Hamas to
recognize Israel. In his words, "I want to say in my own name and in
the name of all my fellow members of the Fatah movement, we are not
asking Hamas to recognize Israel's right to exist. Rather, we are
asking Hamas not to do so because Fatah never recognized Israel's
right to exist."
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