Why am I not surprised?
A senior Hamas figure said Friday that official and unofficial US sources have asked the Islamist group to refrain from making any statements regarding contacts with Washington, this following reports that a senior American official is due to arrive in an Arab country in the coming days to relay a telegram from the Obama Administration.
The Hamas figure told the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper that the Americans fear discussing the talks publicly would “rouse the Jewish lobby and other pressure groups in the US and cause them to pressure the administration to suspend all talks with Hamas.”
The Hamas figure, who is close to Ismail Haniyeh, the prime minister of the government in Gaza, added, “This is a sensitive subject. The Americans don’t want anyone to comment on it because this would catch the attention of pressure groups (in the US) and cause problems.”
via Hamas says asked by US to keep silent on talks – Israel News, Ynetnews.
June 27, 2010 at 11:05 pm
Morr oilsoc transparency–we can see right through him/it.
June 28, 2010 at 6:07 am
I agree. Trust, ha.
June 28, 2010 at 4:43 am
That’s our make believe president…out to help everyone but the Americans. Americans of certain color that is. I will never forgive the democratic party for what they did to this country. The democratic party knew what would happen to America. POWER..the bottom line. Watch them fly in November.
June 28, 2010 at 6:10 am
Don’t forget those 10 million Republicans that refused to vote for their candidate Betty.
June 28, 2010 at 5:37 pm
You have got to be kidding. 10 million republicans? I wasn’t a McCain fan..but I knew obama would be worse.
June 28, 2010 at 8:14 pm
Betty, that is what the numbers are. 10 million refused to vote for McCain.
June 28, 2010 at 6:05 am
We told them to have free elections and they elected Hamas since their previous government would not serve them and this was their other organized choice.
This is about the Gil Shalit swap meet; cross your fingers and hope for the meeting to take place.
June 28, 2010 at 6:13 am
Do you really think this is about a swap? http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/obama_odd_arms_control_secrecy_z8Paz6UzRnveK2f2ltDUfL
June 28, 2010 at 7:06 am
yes:
that oped is stupid, pardon the plain speaking, the arms reduction pat between the US and Russia is not going to weaken either country; it is totally crazy to suggest that a nation with a thousand military bases in other peoples’ countries and a war budget greater than the rest of the entire freaking world’s combined is soft on militarism.
I fail utterly to see any connection to Hamas, which has no nuclear capabilities whatsoever nor is in reach of any.
yes, I think the meeting is to negotiate the list of those to be exchanged for Shalit.
June 28, 2010 at 7:07 am
“pact”, sorry
June 28, 2010 at 8:48 am
We’ll see how it plays out Nom. IF we hear anything more.
June 28, 2010 at 9:28 am
it’s surely not a done deal, but it looks closer this time than many others
July 1, 2010 at 2:47 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10479846.stm
July 1, 2010 at 2:56 pm
Right on the money. I still think that there are other minor details lurking Nom.
June 28, 2010 at 6:45 am
Well, they’re doing a great job of “keeping silent” on it so far.
June 28, 2010 at 8:47 am
Silence. Just like the MSM refuses to speak of Byrd’s KKK past.
— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944
June 28, 2010 at 9:26 am
Byrd renounced the KKK many years ago. I am not a great fan of Byrd as imo he was often a sell-out to business interests, but I do think he tried to do the best he could as he saw it for West Virginia.
from an 1993 interview:
Q: What has been your biggest mistake and your biggest success?
A: Well, it’s easy to state what has been my biggest mistake. The greatest mistake I ever made was joining the Ku Klux Klan. And I’ve said that many times. But one cannot erase what he has done. He can only change his ways and his thoughts. That was an albatross around my neck that I will always wear. You will read it in my obituary that I was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
June 28, 2010 at 10:38 am
I don’t think this dinosaur was any different from Strom Thurmond Nom. Relics. They did bring home the bacon though.
June 28, 2010 at 4:36 pm
Byrd was against the Iraq war, and spoke repeatedly against unilateralism and preemptive war.
http://vodpod.com/watch/3920223-video-senator-robert-byrd-speech-against-the-iraq-war-the-arrogance-of-power
Also, while Byrd was not by any means perfect, he did a great deal for WV in providing it with needed roads and infrastructure. Half my ancestry is from the WV coalfields, those bacon recipients, lol.
I hate mtr more than possibly anything. Byrd also changed from support to nonsupport for mtr in recent years.
http://understory.ran.org/2010/06/28/remembering-senator-robert-c-byrd-longest-serving-us-senator-dies-early-monday-morning/
So I remember him a little better than old Strom and my senator Jesse, though I also think they tried to do what they thought best for their home states in their–and perhaps his– admittedly saurian fashion.
June 28, 2010 at 8:13 pm
Nom where do you get these terms…”saurian fashion” should be in a dictionary. A true visual. Byrd brought home a lot of bacon. I don’t begrudge him, but I do wish that the msm was equally as discontented with him as with Thurmond. I am a fan of neither Nom. I think they were in politics far too long. They were both a good poster child for term limits imo. As times change so do people. I wish that both had left the legislature much sooner.
June 30, 2010 at 2:34 pm
I have discovered the reason that Byrd never retired:
http://www.physorg.com/news197094613.html
the vast hot air in DC acted as a geothermal vent
June 30, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Bwhahahhaha…a geothermal vent.
June 28, 2010 at 7:23 am
From the link
“According to the report, the official said Washington has no choice but to work with Hamas due to its influence in the Arab and Islamic world.”
No choice? NO CHOICE? Work with a terrorist group?
There is ALWAYS a choice- between good and evil, right and wrong.
But hey- we are paying the taliban for safe passage fro supply convoys. Are we going to support N Korea too?
June 28, 2010 at 8:49 am
Do we really know what our leaders are going to do? Can we safely guess? I think we have better odds in Vegas at the crap tables than we do with these clowns.
June 28, 2010 at 9:29 am
on the contrary: they will do exactly what is in the oligarchs’ best interests: rely upon it.