Obama Trying To Make Nice Again With Hamas?

Although the mainstream media has primarily tried to avoid the issue of Hamas' display of love for Sen. Barack Obama, it doesn't make it untrue. In the past, the terrorist group has confirmed who they wish to be America's next president-Barack Hussein Obama.

In April, Ahmed Yousef, Hamas' chief political adviser in Gaza, made the group's choice for POTUS crystal clear. "We like Mr. Obama, and we hope that he will win the elections," he said. Palestinians in the Gaza area have since burned up the phone banks to rally support for Obama among U.S. voters.

On Wednesday Obama addressed the pro-Israel group, AIPAC, and declared that "Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided."

Apparently this didn't set well with Obama's Hamas supporters. "Obama’s comments have confirmed that there will be no change in the U.S. administration’s foreign policy on the Arab-Israeli conflict," Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters in Gaza on Wednesday after Obama's speech. "Hamas does not differentiate between the two presidential candidates," he continued.

Zurhi later confirmed to WorldNetDaily that the words of Hamas disenchantment came solely in response to Obama's comments to AIPAC. "I was responding to the speech. We deal with statements and not motivations. Right now Obama's statements prove he is like other American presidents and won't bring any change," said Zurhi.

On Thursday the Obama campaign did a practical one-eighty by "clarifying" Obama's "no-division" speech.

"Jerusalem remains Israel's capital and it's not going to be divided by barbed wire and checkpoints as it was in 1948-1967," said an Obama campaign spokesman to the Jerusalem Post.

The campaign spokesman also refused to rule out the possibility of the city of Jerusalem serving as "the capital of a Palestinian state" or "Palestinian sovereignty over Arab neighborhoods."

Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America- who had originally lauded Obama's statement-has called the candidate's clarification "troubling." Klein said that Obama's declarations regarding Jerusalem at the AIPAC conference were made possibly to "mislead strong supporters of Israel" to think that Obama "supports something he doesn't really believe."
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