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Report: President Obama delayed press conference over Iran to aid his nuclear disarmament speech at U.N.!

The Telegraph has reported President Obama may have ticked-off some European leaders last week when he delay a joint press conference (video - could Sarkozy have stood any further away from Obama?) with Britain and France over Iran's nuclear facility  until after he chaired a meeting at the U.N. Security Council so his nuclear disarmament talk would look better.

Former President Bill Clinton: Right-wing conspiracy after Obama

We hear from some on the left that it's racist to disagree with President Obama, including former president and "Hamas-friendly", Jimmy Carter.  This weekend Bill Clinton added his predictable two cents and complained it's a "right-wing conspiracy" that's after President Obama. 

I'm just wondering out loud here but is civil discourse ever allowed by the Dems without vicious name-calling?

President Obama declares we are losing in Afghanistan; plans to reach out to Taliban terrorist group!

"President Obama declared in an interview that the United States was not winning the war in Afghanistan and opened the door to a reconciliation process in which the American military would reach out to moderate elements of the much as it did with Sunni militias in Iraq..."

This excerpt is from a New York Times interview strategically timed to come out over the weekend, an obvious tactic to lessen the impact.

We all knew these terrorist groups wanted Obama in office, right?  In this sense, the majority who voted for Obama have got what they apparently asked for - an appeaser of terrorists.  Islamists are on cloud 9!

Can we expect, eventually, there will be chats with Hezbollah and Hamas, as well?  And  their declassification as a designated terrorist organization to follow in short order? 

I wonder what hoops President Obama will be willing to jump through for these Islamist thugs?

Appeasement gets you no where with these brutal beasts other than giving up one concession after another concession.

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Afghan leader Karzai backs Obama's call on Taliban

US open to Afghan Taliban talks Aljazeera.net

The Obama administration accused of sacrificing Israel

This allegation was made in an article in Forbes on February 22nd about the U.S. participation at an planning conference for Durbin II.  But it gets even worse, because the arthor, Anne Bayefsky, a senior fellow of the Hudson Institute, also accused the Obama administration of a cover-up:

"The Obama administration's decision to join the planning of the U.N.'s Durban II "anti-racism" conference has just taken a new twist: cover-up. On Friday, State Department officials and a member of the American Durban II delegation claimed the United States had worked actively to oppose efforts to brand Israel as racist in the committee drafting a Durban II declaration. The trouble is that they didn't.

The Feb. 20 State Department press release says the U.S. delegation in Geneva "outline[d] our concerns with the current outcome document" and in particular "our strong reservations about the direction of the conference, as the draft document singles out Israel for criticism." One member of the delegation told The Washington Post: "The administration is pushing back against efforts to brand Israel as racist in this conference." In fact, tucked away in a Geneva hall with few observers, the U.S. had done just the opposite. The U.S. delegates had made no objection to a new proposal to nail Israel in an anti-racism manifesto that makes no other country-specific claims.

..."The U.S. administration attended four full days of negotiation. During that time they witnessed the following: the failure to adopt a proposal to act against Holocaust denial, a new proposal to single out Israel, which will now be included in the draft without brackets, broad objections to anything having to do with sexual orientation, vigorous refusal by many states to back down on references to "Islamophobia" (the general allegation of a racist Western plot to discriminate against all Muslims), and numerous attacks on free speech..."

The OIC Umma, or put another descriptive way,  the pre-caliphate Islamic organization, will be very pleased.

The Obama team appears to have seriously bamboozled Americans.

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Also see:

US at Durban II: A Dangerous Game to Lose American Thinker, WA - Feb 18, 2009 Plans for Durbin II have been underway for several years, and a last minute proposal by the US may, at best, remove one or two inflammatory passages but not ...   Durban II draft document 'getting worse' Jerusalem Post, Israel - 12 hours ago By TOVAH LAZAROFF AND ABE SELIG The draft document for the United Nations anti-racism conference, dubbed Durban II, is problematic both for Israel and ...   OIC Secretary General Welcomes the US Administration Decision to ... ISRIA (subscription), DC - 16 hours ago The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference welcomed the US Government’s decision to send a delegation to the preparatory meeting of the Durban II Review Conference which is to be held in Geneva on 20-24 April 2009.   Regarding the allegation that the Durban II Review would be exploited by some of the OIC member states to make anti-Israel and anti-Semitic diatribes, Secretary General Ihsanoglu noted that anti-Semitism is a practice which neither originates within, nor belongs to the Muslim communities. Therefore, anti-Semitism should not be associated either with the religion of Islam, or with the OIC member states.  ...   ‘Never Again’ Appeal Made by Lawmakers Worried About Durban II CNSNews.com   Can the United States fix Durban II? Feb 18, 2009 Israel and Canada have already announced they would boycott “Durban II,” as the conference is being called, and the Bush administration was opposed to the ... HOPE/CHANGE!!! Obama Hearts "57 States" Jawa Report, TX - Feb 2, 2009 2. Affirm the need to counter Islamophobia, through the establishment of an observatory at the OIC General Secretariat to monitor all forms of Islamophobia, ...

OIC Military Force Remains No More Than a Vision
CNSNews.com, VA - Feb 20, 2009
“The lack of unity even among the Arab League members can make it difficult to turn the idea of an OIC [Organization of the Islamic Conference] military ...

Author of Hamas letter to President Obama also claimed pre-election meetings took place!

Ahmad Yousef is the Hamas leader who wrote a letter to President Barack Obama, according to numerous news sources.  The letter was given to Senator John Kerry by the head on the UN aid agency UNRWA.

Yousef is the same Hamas leader who said back in November he had secret meetings with the Obama team prior to the presidential elections.  He said he was asked to keep them secret for fear of swaying the president election! 

Yousef is also the Hamas official who said at the end of January that Hamas is rearming itself and that there was no cease-fire with Israel.

Hamas has denied the letter to President Obama exists just as they denied the pre-election meetings with Obama's people. 

However, U.S. officials acknowledge the letter but wonder what to do with it.

What?

The US has confirmed receiving a letter from a Hamas leader addressed to President Barack Obama, though the Palestinian group insists the letter speaks for its author not the group or its Gaza government.

"I can confirm that it was from Hamas to President Obama," a State Department official told Agence France-Presse (AFP).

...The letter was authored by Ahmed Youssef, a deputy foreign minister in the Hamas-led Gaza government." 

Islamonline

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Hamas denies giving Kerry letter for Obama
Ynetnews, Israel - Feb 20, 2009
A spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) had said Hamas left a letter for Obama at a UN compound in Gaza where Kerry paid a call ...

Iran 'biggest risk to Israel'
Gulf Daily News, Bahrain - Feb 20, 2009
Meanwhile, Hamas has denied sending a letter to US President Barack Obama. The denial came after a UN agency said it thought Gaza's Hamas rulers have ...

Hamas asks Obama to treat Palestinians fairly
The Associated Press - 14 hours ago
The letter was written by Ahmed Yousef, an adviser to Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. The letter was given to UN officials, who passed it to Sen. ...

In a Letter, a Leader of Hamas Makes an Appeal to Obama New York Times

Hamas: We wrote to Obama 'no peace without us'

18 hours ago

hmed Yousef, the Hamas deputy foreign minister who drafted the letter addressed to US President Barack Obama, was quoted by the New York Times as saying ...

President Obama to work with OIC; its Fiqh Academy approves of martyrdom!

The Organization of Islamic Conference or OIC is the largest organization in the world.  It has permanent status at the United Nations. Their influence worldwide is growing and is likely positioning itself to be a leader of the Muslim Ummah (world) with possible goals for an Islamic caliphate. Currently, the OIC already claims:

"...The Organization has the singular honor to galvanize the Ummah into a unified body and have actively represented the Muslims by espousing all causes close to the hearts of over 1.5 billion Muslims of the world..."

Its animosity toward Israel apparent since it was "established in 1969 as a result of criminal arson of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem".

On President Obama's Inauguration day the OIC placed an open letter to him in the New York Times.

Yesterday, President Obama had a letter delivered to the OIC Secretary General thanking them for their open letter, which was also carried in the International Herald Tribune (France).  Obama's letter was not released to the public:

"He (Obama) expressed "his staunch confidence in the ability of the US and the OIC to work together in a spirit of peace and friendship for the sake of building a more secure world over the next four years."

He also expressed "his willingness to work with the Secretary General in order to enhance these efforts and reinforce the good relations binding the US and the OIC..."

The OIC is Saudi-based and their subsidiary, the Islamic Figh Academy or Council. approves of martyrdom for Islam; asserts "that jihad and martyr operations done to defend the Islamic creed, dignity, freedom and the sovereignty of states is not considered terrorism but a basic form of necessary defense for legitimate rights."

Way to go President Obama. 

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Organization of the Islamic Conference and the International Organizations

Islamic Fiqh Academy

The Islamic Fiqh Academy (IFA) is a subsidiary organ of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), created by the Third Islamic Summit Conference held in Makkah al-Mukarramah (Saudi Arabia) in Rabiul Awwal 1401 H (January 1981). It is based in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia).

Note:  They have pulled this website off-line and the link above is an archived page.

Saleh Bin-Humaid Named World Fiqh Academy President 

Martyr Operations Carried Out by the Palestinians  7/26/07 

Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour, senior advisor to Saudi Prince, connection to Barack Obama

Report: Obama camp plans talks with terrorist thugs, Hamas

If a report in the Guardian today is true, the Obama camp is planning for talks with a U.S. designated terrorist group, Hamas.  It's not only disturbing but totally contradicts Obama's previous assurances to Americans during the campaign that he would not engage with these brutal terrorist thugs.

However, we did get a  first clue of this possibility on November 11th when  I wrote: HAMAS: Barack Obama advisers asked HAMAS to keep pre-election meeting secret!  

Obama's deception on Hamas could be real but we need clarification directly from Obama but that's not likely since it is also reported these talks may be onducted in secret.  Somewhere along the line someone from Hamas will talk.

From the Guardian dated Jan. 9th, 2009:

"...The incoming Obama administration is prepared to abandon George Bush's ­doctrine of isolating Hamas by establishing a channel to the Islamist organisation, sources close to the transition team say.

The move to open contacts with Hamas, which could be initiated through the US intelligence services, would represent a definitive break with the Bush ­presidency's ostracising of the group. The state department has designated Hamas a terrorist organisation, and in 2006 ­Congress passed a law banning US financial aid to the group.

The Guardian has spoken to three ­people with knowledge of the discussions in the Obama camp.There is no talk of Obama approving direct diplomatic negotiations with Hamas early on, but he is being urged by advisers to initiate low-level or clandestine approaches, and there is growing recognition in Washington that the policy of ostracising Hamas is counter-productive.A tested course would be to start ­contacts through Hamas and the US intelligence services, similar to the secret process through which the US engaged with the PLO in the 1970s. Israel did not become aware of the contacts until much later.

...Richard Haass, a diplomat under both Bush presidents who was named by a number of news organisations this week as Obama's choice for Middle East envoy, supports low-level contacts with Hamas provided there is a ceasefire in place and a Hamas-Fatah reconciliation emerges.

From a Reuters report in April 2008 Barack Obama assured Americans:

"That's why I have a fundamental difference with President Carter and disagree with his decision to meet with Hamas," Obama said. "We must not negotiate with a terrorist group intent on Israel's destruction. Weshould only sit down with Hamas if they renounce terrorism, recognize Israel's right to exist and abide by past agreements."

"Hamas is not a state. Hamas is a terrorist organization," he said.

I'll be filing this under my "bamboozled" category unless we here directly from Obama the Guardian report is inaccurate.

Until then, bamboozled!

Update 12:25 PM:  Obama's transition team denies the report.  But as I said this denial has to come directly from Obama.

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1/9/08:  Obama To Open Back-Channel With Hamas?  CBS

Obama goes to Shul: Calming American Democrats in Israel?

Jerusalem Post - Jun 2, 2008
To his credit, Obama has so far rejected meeting with Hamas; ... The Hamas "endorsement" of Obama: Now, we don't for a minute believe that Obama has ...

Caught meeting repeatedly with Hamas, Obama Mideast adviser Malley...
Israel Insider - May 10, 2008
By Israel Insider staff May 10, 2008. A principal Mideast adviser to US presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama resigned Friday after reports surfaced that ...

Obama: McCain lost his bearings with Hamas comment
USA Today - May 8, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday that Republican rival John McCain tried to smear him and was "losing his ... 

Obama Pledges Support for Israel, Blasts McCain...- Bloomberg

McCain picks up Hamas-Obama linkage

Jewish Telegraphic Agency - Apr 25, 2008
John McCain said voters should draw judgments from a report that Hamasfavors Barack Obama. "I think it's very clear who Hamas wants to be the next ...

I would not meet with Hamas: Obama

alarabiya.net - Apr 12, 2008
Barack Obama said Friday he would not meet with representatives of Hamas but declined to criticize former US president Jimmy Carter's reported planned ...

 

Carter-Hamas talks 'bad idea,' says Obama- AFP - MyWire (Subscription)

HAMAS: Barack Obama advisors asked HAMAS to keep pre-election meeting secret!

Yesterday, we learned Robert Malley is outlining Obama's policy on the Middle East to Syria and Egypt as his senior policy advisor, according to Malley's aide. 

This completely contradicts what an Obama spokesman told Americans last May after it became public Malley met regularly with the terrorist organization, Hamas.  At the time, we were told they ditched him and he would have no role with an Obama administration in the future.

Can we reasonably conclude Obama's spokesman lied to us or did Malley's aide get this all wrong?   Will the MSM report on this?

Today, we found out Hamas claims there was a secret pre-election meeting between them and Obama advisors.  Heck, Malley was probably at this "secret" meeting, don't you think?  A leader for Hamas also said they were advised by Obama's people to keep the meeting secret so it wouldn't influence the election!  This is major, if true.

Bamboozled again, America? 

"Dr. Ahmad Yousef, a political adviser to the prime minister of the Hamas-led government, Ismail Haniyah, revealed Tuesday that prior to the US presidential elections, a secret meeting was held between senior officials from the Palestinian movement and President-elect Barack Obama's advisers in the Gaza Strip.

"We were in contact with a number of Obama's aides through the Internet, and later met with some of them in Gaza, but they advised us not to reveal this information as it may influence the elections or become manipulated by [Republican candidate John] McCain's campaign", Yousuf said in an interview with London-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat, published Tuesday."

According to Yousuf, Hamas' contact with Obama's advisors was ongoing, adding that he personally had friendly relations with a few of Obama's advisers whom he had met when he lived in the US."Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh will draft a congratulatory letter to Obama for his victory in the elections," added Yousef.

Update 11/12/08:  The Hamas government issued a statement that denies the meeting took place. 

In another report, "...Mr. Obama's senior foreign-policy adviser, Denis McDonough, told The Jerusalem Post yesterday: "This assertion is just plain false."

Speaking from Gaza today, Ayman abu Leilah, a spokesman for Mr. Yousef, confirmed these statements as true, adding that the most recent meeting took place in early October, "one month before the election." He said Mr. Yousef had first met the Obama people some years ago when he was studying in the United States. 

Mr. Yousef said that the connection to the Obama people is "ongoing."

Aide to Robert Malley contradicts statement made by Obama spokesman

I am republishing a post I wrote last May.  That's when we learned Robert Malley, a foreign policy adviser for Barack Obama, was ditched by the Obama team when it became known he regularly held talks with HAMAS, a terrorist organization.  We were told also he would not be part of the Obama team in the future.

Well, guess what? 

Original post (I shortened it a bit):

...Robert Malley told The Times that he had been in regular contact with Hamas, which controls Gaza and is listed by the US State Department as a terrorist organisation. Such talks, he stressed, were related to his work for a conflict resolution think-tank and had no connection with his position on Mr Obama’s Middle East advisory council.

...Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for Mr Obama, responded swiftly: “Rob Malley has, like hundreds of other experts, provided informal advice to the campaign in the past. He has no formal role in the campaign and he will not play any role in the future.” The rapid departure of Mr Malley followed 48 hours of heated clashes between John McCain, the Republican nominee-elect, and Mr Obama over Middle East policy.

Now, we find out after the election:

"According to a report on Middle East Newsline, President-elect Barack Obama has dispatched his "senior foreign policy adviser", Robert Malley to Egypt and Syria to outline Obama's policy on the Middle East.
 
Malley reportedly relayed a promise from Obama that the United States would seek to enhance relations with Cairo and reconcile differences with Damascus.

"The tenor of the messages was that the Obama administration would take into greater account Egyptian and Syrian interests," an aide to Malley was quoted as saying. The aide said Obama plans to launch a U.S. diplomatic initiative toward Syria.  Malley met both Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad "to explain Obama's agenda for the Middle East."

...Obama, himself, was also said to have met Arab leaders who arrived in the United States over the last three months. The aides said the leaders included Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

"Obama's message is that he strongly supports a Palestinian state," the aide said.

Is this article inaccurate?  Is Robert Malley really one of his senior policy advisors?  Or did the Obama team lie to us before? 

OMG, were we just bamboozled by Obama?

Update 11/11/08:  HAMAS: Barack Obama advisors asked HAMAS to keep pre-election meeting secret!

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See also:  Obama Sends Man Linked With Terror Group AND George Soros to Deal With Egypt/Syria

...Robert Malley told The Times that he had been in regular contact with Hamas, which controls Gaza and is listed by the US State Department as a terrorist organisation. Such talks, he stressed, were related to his work for a conflict resolution think-tank and had no connection with his position on Mr Obama’s Middle East advisory council.

...Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for Mr Obama, responded swiftly: “Rob Malley has, like hundreds of other experts, provided informal advice to the campaign in the past. He has no formal role in the campaign and he will not play any role in the future.” The rapid departure of Mr Malley followed 48 hours of heated clashes between John McCain, the Republican nominee-elect, and Mr Obama over Middle East policy.

Now, we find out after the election:

"According to a report on Middle East Newsline, President-elect Barack Obama has dispatched his "senior foreign policy adviser", Robert Malley to Egypt and Syria to outline Obama's policy on the Middle East.
 
Malley reportedly relayed a promise from Obama that the United States would seek to enhance relations with Cairo and reconcile differences with Damascus.

"The tenor of the messages was that the Obama administration would take into greater account Egyptian and Syrian interests," an aide to Malley was quoted as saying. The aide said Obama plans to launch a U.S. diplomatic initiative toward Syria.  Malley met both Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad "to explain Obama's agenda for the Middle East."

...Obama, himself, was also said to have met Arab leaders who arrived in the United States over the last three months. The aides said the leaders included Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

"Obama's message is that he strongly supports a Palestinian state," the aide said.

Is this article inaccurate?  Is Robert Malley really one of his senior policy advisors?  Or did the Obama team lie to us before? 

OMG, were we just bamboozled by Obama?

Update 11/11/08:  HAMAS: Barack Obama advisors asked HAMAS to keep pre-election meeting secret!

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See also:  Obama Sends Man Linked With Terror Group AND George Soros to Deal With Egypt/Syria