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US officials to Obama: Talk to Hamas
Jerusalem Post ^ | 3/14/09 | staff

Posted on 03/14/2009 11:31:40 PM PDT by Nachum

A top economic adviser to US President Barack Obama, along with nine former senior officials, is calling on the American leader to launch a dialogue with Hamas, the The Boston Globe reported Saturday.

SLIDESHOW: Israel & Region | World According to the report, Paul A. Volcker and other members of the bipartisan group - including former national security advisers Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski - have sent a letter to Obama urging him to engage Hamas in order to coax the terrorist organization to disarm and join a peaceful Palestinian unity government.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhomiddleeast; brzezinski; hamas; hussein; muslim; obama; officials; scowcroft; talk; terrorist; volcker

1 posted on 03/14/2009 11:31:40 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Yeah Jonny, you first...


2 posted on 03/14/2009 11:32:44 PM PDT by allmost
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To: SumProVita; HardStarboard; BradyLS; Ernest_at_the_Beach; dervish; Twotone; Free ThinkerNY; ...

The List, ping


3 posted on 03/14/2009 11:32:53 PM PDT by Nachum (the complete list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Teleprompter to 0bama: talk to Hamas.


4 posted on 03/14/2009 11:34:55 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (Palin / Limbaugh 2012)
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To: Nachum

Cart to horse: go this way.


5 posted on 03/14/2009 11:35:18 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (Palin / Limbaugh 2012)
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To: Nachum
Jeepers, Hussein gets a list of surrender monkey pacifists.

yitbos

6 posted on 03/14/2009 11:36:04 PM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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To: Nachum
You don't talk to terrorists, you stop them (with whatever means necessary).
7 posted on 03/15/2009 12:09:19 AM PDT by 444Flyer (Don't beLIEve Obama.............................Never give up, never give in, never give out!)
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To: Nachum

Every current and former US Official pushing this should be immediately put under investigation for money laundering and the LOBBYING DISCLOSURE ACT.


8 posted on 03/15/2009 12:09:50 AM PDT by JerseyHighlander (the people criticizing Christie are directly connected to the criminal politicians he convicted.")
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To: JerseyHighlander

Agreed. The amount of corruption is obvious.


9 posted on 03/15/2009 1:05:28 AM PDT by pepsionice
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coax the terrorist organization

Sure! That's the ticket. Why didn't we think of this before..

10 posted on 03/15/2009 1:24:12 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Nachum

I don’t see why not, negotiating with terrorists has always worked in the past.


11 posted on 03/15/2009 1:31:11 AM PDT by FTJM
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To: Nachum
A top economic adviser to US President Barack Obama, along with nine former senior officials, is calling on the American leader to launch a dialogue with Hamas, the The Boston Globe reported Saturday

This will be the first step to signing a treaty known as "TAFTA", the Terrorist Allied Free Trade Act, so that Obama can send Hamas a stimulus check to boost that economy as well.

12 posted on 03/15/2009 1:32:37 AM PDT by Bernard (If you always tell the truth, you never have to remember exactly what you said.)
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To: Nachum

Follow the money. This is horrendous advice by advisors with bad advice. World terrorism must be defeated soundly by all means possible. Negotiation and talking have never gotten anywhere, none, nada, with any of the groups calling themselves “Palestinians.” Netanyahu naively gave away the store under the Oslo Accords and received in return more terrorism than ever. Let’s hope he learned his lesson and will be more realistic and sticks to what he knows: that there is no negotiating with terrorists. The Palestinian Authority is every bit as much a terrorist group as Hamas, Hezbollah, and Fatah.


13 posted on 03/15/2009 1:33:06 AM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: Nachum

The so-called academic intellectual, Brzezinski was in bed with terrorists his whole adult life, a flaming apologist for terrorists going back forty years. Facts should have discredited Brzezinski long ago, but the NY Times always loved him. Obama is bringing back the worst that ever was in U.S. foreign policy advising. His ilk find fault only with the U.S. Follow the money.


14 posted on 03/15/2009 1:38:23 AM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: Nachum

As a lead in to the discussions, why not mention how Barry Soetoro converted from Islam to Christianity? You know, sort of a conversation starter. Just to get the ball rolling.


15 posted on 03/15/2009 2:18:40 AM PDT by CanaGuy (Go Harper!)
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To: Nachum

Naivete...thy name is Obama.

First we’re going to make friends w/Cuba and Russia, and on that news they’re talking of placing bombers in Cuba.

Then we’re going to talk to Iran and the moderate Taleban, LOL.

And now we need a dialogue with Hamas.

Unbelievable!


16 posted on 03/15/2009 5:05:32 AM PDT by dawn53
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To: Nachum

Brent “New Communist World Order” Scowcroft and Zbigniew “I Surrender” Brzezinski, two of the biggest jackasses to ever infest DC.


17 posted on 03/15/2009 5:26:06 AM PDT by sergeantdave (obuma is the anti-Lincoln, trying to re-establish slavery)
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To: CanaGuy
"Barry Soetoro converted from Islam to Christianity"

He did? What proof do you have of that conversion: baptism certificate, statements, etc?

18 posted on 03/15/2009 6:18:58 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Global Warming Theory is extremely robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it)
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To: dawn53

Translation...

The world knows our presentident is weak and has not the will to stand up and tell others what we expcect in terms of behavior that is condusive to keeping the peace as we see it.

That’s all the goons on the other side of the Atlantic and/or Pacific understans so show them....

I’m no tough guy, but man, you have to have the intestinal fortitude to at least represent that you have at least a straight flush when the other guy has four of a kind already...It’s not about actual action, it’s about the will to do what the other guy won’t. You show that, you keep the peace, period.


19 posted on 03/15/2009 6:24:17 AM PDT by phatus maximus ( John 6:29. Learn it, love it, live it.)
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20 posted on 03/15/2009 7:53:29 AM PDT by SJackson (Barack Obama went to Harvard and became an educated fool. Rep. Bobby Rush)
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To: Nachum

I always thought just when the Lefties called Freepers terrorists it was an insult. Maybe it just means they want to negotiate with us and give us foreign aid.


21 posted on 03/15/2009 8:10:49 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Ever think "That'd make a great name for a rock band?" http://twitter.com/newbandnames)
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To: SJackson; All; Spunky; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1035rep; 2ndDivisionVet; 4woodenboats; 5Madman2; ...

Talk to terrorist HAMAS, talk nicely to the violent killer Taliban, give murderous Palestinians nearly a BILLION dollars (while we go without) and put a visit to islamic iran on the near term agenda (prior to the Mullah “elections” in June/July) is the icing on the cake of Oba-Hussein-Khomeini’s Communist coup which the islamists helped come about with active support and money.

Oba-Hussein has not only given billions as payback to his leftists but is now selling America to the jihadists.

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/03/islam-in-action-in-londonistan-coming.html


22 posted on 03/15/2009 1:09:36 PM PDT by FARS
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To: FARS

23 posted on 03/15/2009 1:11:52 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: FARS
Oba-Hussein has not only given billions as payback to his leftists but is now selling America to the jihadists.

I wonder if we can survive the next four years.

24 posted on 03/15/2009 1:30:10 PM PDT by 1035rep ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: Nachum

The US has talked to and helped lots of terrorist leaders in the past and has backstabbed millions of innocent people around the world. It’s called realpolitik/ pandering to international business.

Why change now???


25 posted on 03/15/2009 1:35:52 PM PDT by eleni121 (EN TOUTO NIKA!! + In this sign Conquer! +)
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To: Nachum
Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski

Arab Appeasement Inc.

26 posted on 03/15/2009 1:44:22 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: FARS; Nachum; LucyT; MHGinTN; Fred Nerks; Candor7
According to the report, Paul A. Volcker and other members of the bipartisan group - including former national security advisers Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski - have sent a letter to Obama urging him to engage Hamas in order to coax the terrorist organization to disarm and join a peaceful Palestinian unity government.

Apparently, the only ones who know that there is no such thing as a peaceful Palestinian unity government are Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. "Moderate" President Abbas, whose Fatah organization includes the Al-Aksa Martyrs, responsible for most of the terrorist attacks in the West Bank, wants Israel to cease to exist as a Jewish state every bit as much as does Haniyeh of Hamas. Abbas had nothing but praise and admiration for the Palestinian psychopath who broke into the Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva in Israel and murdered eight students, calling him a "Hero of the Palestinian cause."

That's the Emm-Eff to whom we've sent all of our money, as well as thousands of advanced M-16 assault rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition that his Al-Aksa thugs received and used against israel.

Meanwhile, despite the sell-out of Israel by Chillary (you DID know that she was anti-Israel all along, right?), and the latest Jimmy Carter kumbaya, Mamas has repeated its hardline stance that it will NEVER recognize Israel's right to exist.

After all that ZERO has done, I wonder what the folks in the GOP would say now. Y'know, the ones who claimed that McCain would have been as bad as Obama?

27 posted on 03/15/2009 2:12:46 PM PDT by Polarik ("A forgery created to prove a claim repudiates that claim")
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To: Nachum
- have sent a letter to Obama urging him to engage Hamas in order to coax the terrorist organization to disarm and join a peaceful Palestinian unity government.

Hamas wasn't elected to do that. Who are they going to listen to their constituents or 0bobblehead?

28 posted on 03/15/2009 3:31:07 PM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: Polarik
After all that ZERO has done, I wonder what the folks in the GOP would say now. Y'know, the ones who claimed that McCain would have been as bad as Obama?

They'd probably say he can't be trusted either.

John McCain armed Kosovo Islamic terrorists

McCAIN AND THE KLA CONNECTION

29 posted on 03/15/2009 4:14:07 PM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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A top economic adviser... Paul A. Volcker and other members of the bipartisan group -- including former national security advisers Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski -- have sent a letter to Obama urging him to engage Hamas in order to coax the terrorist organization to disarm and join a peaceful Palestinian unity government.
Thanks FARS.
30 posted on 03/15/2009 4:55:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Polarik; All; Spunky; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1035rep; 2ndDivisionVet; 4woodenboats; 5Madman2; ...

Chillery-Hitlery has Al-Qaeda linked Huma Abedin as her personal assistant (reportedly in every way) so little wonder.

Chillery-Hitlery received huge Arab sources amounts for her campaign, Bill Klintoon receives huge remuneration from the SAudis and other Arabs as donations to his library and for huge speaking fees. AND THE MAN AT THe TOP Oba-Hussein-Khomeini is totally pro-his Arab fund sources and islamic iran ones.

No room for Israel in that scenario

On the Pres. Hussein of Kenya COLB what you so rightly indicate will come out once the case gets heard. AntiMullah has posted Orly Taitz’ phone and fax numbers and her Email. You may want to share your detailed information with her.

Just do a search for Orly or Taitz on that site.


31 posted on 03/15/2009 5:04:49 PM PDT by FARS
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To: FARS

Orlys got my goods


32 posted on 03/15/2009 8:14:27 PM PDT by Polarik ("A forgery created to prove a claim repudiates that claim")
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To: FARS

Thanks for the ping!


33 posted on 03/15/2009 9:01:51 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: FARS; Polarik

Thanks FARS, I was hoping something was still moving on the COLB


34 posted on 03/15/2009 11:27:06 PM PDT by 4woodenboats (Retire the Left & RINO's in 2010 -PUT UP SOME CANDIDATES WE CAN VOTE FOR!!)
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To: Nachum
"Paul A. Volcker and other members of the bipartisan group - including former national security advisers Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski - have sent a letter to Obama urging him to engage Hamas in order to coax the terrorist organization to disarm and join a peaceful Palestinian unity government."

What the hell is this country coming to: "coaxing" islamofascist terrorists!

Killing them is the only way to deal with them!

God save us!

Be Ever Vigilant!

35 posted on 03/16/2009 8:19:39 AM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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