msnbc - hamas: "obama doesn't represent change"

Of course this is propaganda, just keeping every one up to speed. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28798994/ Hamas: Obama doesn't represent change In first remarks on Gaza, president calls for end to rockets, Israeli pull-out updated 4:59 p.m. MT, Thurs., Jan. 22, 2009 DAMASCUS, Syria - President Barack Obama's position toward the Palestinians does not represent change and will lead to the same mistakes as his predecessor, a Hamas spokesman said Thursday. The comments by Beirut-based Osama Hamdan follow Obama's first public comments on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis since his inauguration. Hamdan tells Al-Jazeera television he expects Obama to experience failure in the region over the next four years if he sticks with his current position. Obama said Thursday that Hamas must end rocket fire at Israel and Israel must "complete the withdrawal of its forces from Gaza." Although those steps were taken this week, low-level violence has marred the fragile cease-fire that ended Israel's three week offensive in Gaza. Call for Palestinian reconciliation Earlier on Thursday Hamas called for reconciliation with supporters of rival Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas but insisted on pursuing "resistance" against Israel. The condition appeared to preclude any agreement with Abbas, who seeks a peace deal with Israel and whose moderate Fatah faction was not among the groups that backed the statement by eight Damascus-based radical Palestinian factions including Hamas.

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