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U.S. President-elect Obama steps out from behind a curtain US president-elect, Barack Obama, steps out from behind a curtain. Photograph: Jim Young/Reuters
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Obama ready to talk to Nazis -- no, wait...
Jihad Watch — ... Not the Nazis, but Hamas. I always mix those two up. "Obama camp 'prepared to talk to Hamas,'" by Suzanne Goldenberg in the Guardian, January 8 (thanks to James): ...

Contact With Hamas Is The Wrong Solution
QandO — ... are out claiming that the incoming Obama administration will eschew the former policy of isolating terrorist groups and instead seek low level engagement with them. Well, that’s not really what the reports say - they don’t refer to talks between a terror group and the US government at any level. In fact, other than stating that Hamas has been "designated" as a terrorist organization, and implying that’s a mistake, Hamas and terror are barely linked (at least in the report cited). At worst they’re referred to as a "radical organization". ...

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