Hamas: Shhhh! Obama Doesn't Want Us To Discuss Our Secret Talks!

Assuming this is true, why in the world would the US trust terrorists to keep a secret--especially when it has to do with the recognition and acceptance that they need?

Hamas says asked by US to keep silent on talks

Islamist group source says senior American officials request contacts remain secret 'so as not to rouse Jewish lobby'

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."

He said Hamas' exiled leadership in Damascus is overseeing the contacts behind closed doors.

On Wednesday a Washington-based Arabic newspaper quoted a senior official as saying that an American envoy is scheduled to meet with Hamas representatives in an Arab country and hand them a letter from the Obama Administration.

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.

Of course, that is the same excuse used to justify talking to Syria--which of course justifies Syria's support of terrorism--which got them US recognition in the first place.

When the US claims that Hamas has influence in the region, just what kind of influence do they mean, other than terrorist attacks with the backing of Iran?

Once again, we see that "overseas contingency operations" and "man-caused disasters" are better euphemisms of Obama's foreign policy than of the war on terror.

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