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September 09, 2008
Muslim Lover Obama: Terror groups have 'legitimate claims'
Obama: Terror groups have 'legitimate claims'
Asserts U.S. needs foreign policy that 'looks at the root causes of problems'
JERUSALEM
The Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist organizations have "legitimate claims" that are being "weakened" by the violence the terror groups carry out, Sen. Barack Obama recently stated in largely unnoticed remarks in the New York Times.
Speaking in May with columnist David Brooks, Obama said the U.S. needs a foreign policy that "looks at the root causes of problems and dangers."
The presidential candidate compared Hezbollah to Hamas, stating they both need to be compelled to understand that "they're going down a blind alley with violence that weakens their legitimate claims."
Brooks was speaking to Obama for clarification on an earlier statement the Illinois senator made implying Lebanese militias should be tempered with enticements.
Regarding Hezbollah, Obama earlier declared:
"It's time to engage in diplomatic efforts to help build a new Lebanese consensus that focuses on electoral reform, an end to the current corrupt patronage system, and the development of the economy that provides for a fair distribution of services, opportunities and employment."
Brooks took issue with that statement, writing it has the "whiff" of "appeasement."
Is Obama naïve enough to think that an extremist ideological organization like Hezbollah can be mollified with a less corrupt patronage system and some electoral reform?" asked Brooks, who said he called Obama today to clarify his remarks.
Obama immediately affirmed Hezbollah is "not a legitimate political party." Instead, "It's a destabilizing organization by any common-sense standard. This wouldn’t happen without the support of Iran and Syria."
He continued by stating Hamas and Hezbollah violence weakens the groups' "legitimate claims."
Hamas' official charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state. It also calls for Muslims to "pursue the cause of the Movement (Hamas), all over the globe."
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Obama previously was embroiled in controversy regarding Hamas after Ahmed Yousuf, the terror group's chief political adviser in the Gaza Strip, said in an interview in April with WND and with WABC radio that he "hopes" Obama becomes president.
"We like Mr. Obama, and we hope that he will win the elections," said Yousef. "I hope Mr. Obama and the Democrats will change the political discourse. ... I do believe [Obama] is like John Kennedy, a great man with a great principal. And he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community, but not with humiliation and arrogance," Yousef said, speaking from Gaza.
If your opponents are looking for your destruction it's hard to sit across the table from them," but, he continued: "There are rarely purely ideological movements out there. We can encourage actors to think in practical and not ideological terms. We can strengthen those elements that are making practical calculations."
Obama's comments about "legitimate causes" of terror groups and "root problems of causes and dangers" seems to echo little-noticed remarks the presidential candidate made eight days after 9/11 in which he said the attacks were carried out because of a lack of "empathy" for others' suffering on the part of al-Qaida, whose terrorist ideology "grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair."
Obama went on to imply the Sept. 11 attacks were, in part, a result of U.S. policy, lecturing the American military to minimize civilian casualties in the Middle East and urging action opposing "bigotry or discrimination directed against neighbors and friends of Middle-Eastern descent."
"Even as I hope for some measure of peace and comfort to the bereaved families, I must also hope that we, as a nation, draw some measure of wisdom from this tragedy," Obama wrote in a piece about 9/11 published Sept. 19, 2001, in Chicago's Hyde Park Herald.
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"We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity or suffering of others. Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it unique to a particular culture, religion or ethnicity. It may find expression in a particular brand of violence, it may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics.
"Most often, though, it grows out a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair.
"We will have to make sure, despite our rage, that any U.S. military action takes into account the lives of innocent civilians abroad. We will have to be unwavering in opposing bigotry or discrimination directed against neighbors and friends of Middle-Eastern descent. Finally, we will have to devote far more attention to the monumental task of raising the hopes and prospects of embittered children across the globe – children not just in the Middle East, but also in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and within our own shores," he wrote.
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Wild Thing's comment..........
Obama is just a stupid as every other leftist who thinks all terrorist groups really want is a group hug. BUT the difference is HE is the one running for President,
He continued by stating Hamas and Hezbollah violence weakens the groups' "legitimate claims."
The following are some of their “legitimate claims”, right out of the Hamas Charter, visible in all its glorious splendor at this link.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/hamas.htm
“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”
“There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.”
Hamas, Hezbullah et al. are salivating at the feast they see before them if Hussein Obama is elected.
Code Pink founder Jodie Evans, one of Obama's top 500 fundraisers, known to Obama by her first name, recently said in an interview that Osama bin Laden had valid reasons to attack the USA on 911, citing the presence of US bases in Saudi Arabia.
How about we send Obama to the Hamas, Hezbullah and he can be their Community Organizer.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Posted by Wild Thing at September 9, 2008 03:47 AM
Comments
Gee, maybe he can sign up all those disaffected muslim youths for his Voluntary Civilian Corps. Bonus - they get money to pay off heir student loans!!
Too bad the libs who want Utopia NOW! still believe in fairy tales ~ And they all lived happily after!
Posted by: yankeemom at September 9, 2008 08:51 AM
Obama needs to shut up-! He thinks he is some super smart guy- but everyday he just shows his ignorance by saying stupid crap about his wonderful muslims- He is for sure a rotten no good POS!!!! Wake up democrats!! - you are showing your stupidity!!
Posted by: Cheryl Zee at September 9, 2008 09:07 AM
I hope the liberal/leftist Jews in America wake up soon and realize how bad Obama is for Israel. Too many influential American Jews support Obama and I don't know why. His trend of supporting islamic radical organizations certainly does not mean that he would by choice be friendly to Jews except for their financial support and influence.
Obama's background has to make him more of a muslim supporter than he admits, though at times like the above, the truth does slip through.
Posted by: TomR at September 9, 2008 09:35 AM
"To look at the root cause of problems", meaning how much can we pay them to be nice.
I heard part of the oreilly interview. BO said, '
"Well why can't we take from the rich and give it to someone, who is less fortuante."
BO doesn't even have the basic understanding of how this country works. His plan by any other person would be called robbery and the 'perp' locked up.
This is communism via Saul Alynski. The obamabots have bought it hook, line and sinker.
Posted by: Mark at September 9, 2008 01:54 PM
Yankeemom, hahahahaa good one!!!
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 9, 2008 04:54 PM
Cheryl, yes he has really been falling apart these last two weeks especially. I think it has totally thrown him when McCain picked Palin and the response she has received. Obama was the Messiah and now he is just a guy wanting to be President. Reality has hit and it is showing in his totals at his rallies too.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 9, 2008 04:57 PM
Tom, exactly I agree!
Linda and I have talked about this a lot. How weird and wrong too that it is that so many Jews are conservative when it comes to Israel but democrat and liberals when it comes to American politics. If they would just realize how wrong they are in their thinking about American politics and how important it is who we have for President and how it effects our friendship with Israel.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 9, 2008 05:00 PM
Mark they sure have....."This is communism via Saul Alynski. The obamabots have bought it hook, line and sinker."
Nicholas was watching the O'reilly interview too and I saw some of it. Obama would be a nightmare sitting down with heads of State.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 9, 2008 05:03 PM
This sympathetic and appeasement attitude of Barack Obama to terrorists, terror supporting nations, and haters of America is the key foreign policy issue for voters to consider on whether they want to be more at risk of Islamofascist terrorist attacks the next four and more years. Jews voting for Obama are not just stupid because of the danger that he is to Israel but the danger he is to the United States.
Posted by: Les at September 9, 2008 05:37 PM
What in the hell? They had the right to attack us?
That would be like Charles Manson saying he had the right to kill Sharon Tate! Come on, are we really that dumb?
He is getting stupider and stupider as the days go on. It shows that he will give sanctuary to terrorists, who may end up being your next door neighbor. This is ridiculous. The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist buried in pork renderings so he can't enter his blessed kingdom and have his way with his so called "virgins."
Posted by: Lynn at September 10, 2008 04:19 AM
