HAARETZ: Report: U.S. officials urge Obama to engage Hamas
A group of former senior American officials and one current adviser are calling on U.S. President Barack Obama to talk with Hamas in an effort to disarm the group and persuade it to join a peaceful Palestinian government, according to a report published Saturday on the Boston Globe.
According to the Boston Globe, the bipartisan group includes economic recovery adviser Paul A. Volcker and former national security advisers Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski, who are said to have made their recommendation in a letter handed to Obama before he took office."I see no reason not to talk to Hamas," Scowcroft, who was national security adviser to President George H.W. Bush, told the Boston Globe.
Talking to Hamas would signal a shift in U.S. policy, which has up until now designated Hamas as a terrorist organization and insisted that the group renounce violence, recognize Israel and agree to all previous peace agreements signed by Palestinian negotiators.
The contents of the letter have not been made public, but Scowcroft and Henry Siegman, who brought the officials together, told the Boston Globe that it urged Obama to formulate a clear stance on how peace talks should proceed and state specific gaols to be attained.
"The main gist is that you need to push hard on the Palestinian peace process," Scowcroft told the Boston Globe. "Don't move it to end of your agenda and say you have too much to do. And the U.S. needs to have a position, not just hold their coats while they sit down."
Along with Scowcroft, Volcker, and Brzezinski, signatories included former House International Relations Committee chairman Lee Hamilton; former United Nations ambassador Thomas Pickering; former World Bank president James Wolfensohn; former U.S. trade representative Carla Hills; Theodore Sorensen, former special counsel to President John F. Kennedy; and former Republican senators Chuck Hagel and Nancy Kassebaum Baker.
I THINK OBAMA WILL DO THIS - AND LEAKING THIS LETTER WITH THE NAMES ON IT IS A WAY TO INOCULATE OBAMA FROM THE FALLOUT.THE MAN WHO BABYSAT FOR HIS TWO GIRLS WAS A MEMBER OF PLO.
IF YOU CAN TRUST AN ANTISEMITIC TERRORIST WITH YOUR LITTLE GIRLS, THEN YO8U CAN CHAT WITH HAMAS - AFTER ALL: YOU HAVE A LOT IN COMMON WITH THEM.
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I SEE NO REASON NOT TO TALK TO HAMAS...
...DO YOU?
After all, they look like reasonable folks.
So, yes, let's do "dialogue" with them, and their Iranian supporters, and whoever else supports them.
OH, YEAH...
...and we can even supply them with weapons, as long as their as high quality weapons as this.
Zbig is a moron, he is responsible for screwing up Iran, letting the world Jihadism out of the bottle, and we are still paying for it.
YTBA: YOU SHOULD POST HERE...
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