Aaron Klein and John Batchelor interviewed Ahmed Yousef, chief political adviser to the Prime Minister of Hamas, on WABC radio.
Hamas has endorsed Barack Obama for President. Yousef said:
“We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election.” Why? “He has a vision to change America.” Maybe Yousef has some insight into what Obama means by all these vague references to “change.”
“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,” Yousuf said, speaking from Gaza.
Yousef was asked about Obama’s condemnation of Carter’s visit with Hamas, but didn’t seem troubled by it.
Hamas, he says, understands American politics; this is the election season, and everyone wants to sound like a friend of Israel. Nevertheless, he hopes that the Democrats will change American policies when they take office.
You can hear the entire interview HERE and then just click on the link at the site.
Wild Thing’s comment……..
Some other information on Ahmed Yousef:
In 1998, while serving as the executive director of the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR), Yousef gave an interview to the Middle East Quarterly in which he defended Hamas, suicide bombings and encouraged attacks on Jews. Asked if he wrote, “God has promised that the Muslims will fight the Jews and defeat them,” Yousef answered that he did, and continued, “I took this from an authentic Islamic hadith (or tradition) that does not say when this defeat will happen or where. My objective in using this quote is to assure the Palestinian people that one day justice will be realized and to encourage them to continue their struggles with the assurance of victory against the occupation.”
Yousef fled the US in 2005 to avoid prosecution in the Fawaz Damra terrorist support trial and reappeared in Gaza as the official spokesman for HAMAS.
Here we go again with word CHANGE.
What kind of change? We’re doing fine.
So we have a bit of a slow down–big deal. It happens every so often. The economy has to keep
itself healthy, just like you and me and sometimes a slow down is what is needed for a brighter tomorrow. You just have to hang on, stay the course and do what you can to make it work for you.
Now if Obamanation would tell me what changes he plans to make, I’d love to hear it. I don’t know why anyone who just hang on empty words.
Plus the terrorists love Obama because he’ll give them free reign to take over Iraq, hoard the oil, develop more nuclear weapons and attack us and Israel over and over again.
He’s with them, not with us.
Lynn, your right, Obama’s would make the terrorists his people and backers like the Clinton’s did with the Chinese when they were running for Bill to win.