"Israel's Stauchest Ally" - The Obama administration gets it wrong on Hamas?

"Israel's Stauchest Ally" - The Obama administration gets it wrong on Hamas? HT: AlMonitor.

“Had Hamas changed, it would be one thing,” continued Dermer. “But Hamas hasn't changed. It remains as committed to Israel's destruction today as it was yesterday.”

The Obama administration abandoned ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, embraced the regime of former President Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and was quick to express its reservations about the counter-revolution in which Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi seized power in Cairo. Time and again, the Obama administration keeps proving its geopolitical shortsightedness and moral muddle. 

And it is not just Jerusalem and Cairo that wonder about the absence of any logic in the administration’s policies. The same is true of Riyadh as well. American actions in the Middle East over the past few years have created a vacuum into which the Russians and Chinese will eventually get sucked in.

Egypt has outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, including Hamas. It has sealed its border with Gaza hermetically and shut down all the smuggling tunnels. Meanwhile, Obama extends a hand to Hamas.

Beyond Washington’s illogical behavior, its policies also suffer from a moral and ethical problem. Would the United States maintain any relations whatsoever with al-Qaeda or grant aid to any government that included members of al-Qaeda, even only as technocrats? Would the US administration extend a hand to any government, which includes anti-Semitic forces, whose ideas can only be described as a Nazi worldview?

How will Obama explain to his voters in general, and his Jewish voters in particular, that he recognized a government in which Hamas is a participant, even though Article 22 of the Hamas charter states:

“The [Jews] enemies have taken control of the media. … They used this wealth to stir revolutions. … They stood behind the French Revolution, the Communist Revolution. … They stood behind World War I, so as to wipe out the Islamic Caliphate. … They established the League of Nations so that they could take over the world. … They also stood behind World War II. … They ordered the creation of the United Nations and the Security Council. … There was no war that broke out anywhere without their fingerprints on it.”

How can Obama reconcile his humanistic values with Article 7 of the Hamas charter, which refers to the war between Muslims and Jews on the day of judgment, saying that on that day, the rocks and trees themselves will call out, “O Muslim! O Servant of Allah! There is a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him!”

Congress in Washington has an important task ahead of it. It must put a stop to the administration’s intentions while they are still little more than that. It’s not too late to stop the train. Read the full story here.

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