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Obama ‘prepared to talk to Hamas’

Friday, January 9th, 2009

That’s what I like to hear.

“The incoming Obama administration is prepared to abandon George Bush’s ­doctrine of isolating Hamas by establishing a channel to the Islamist organisation, sources close to the transition team say.

The move to open contacts with Hamas, which could be initiated through the US intelligence services, would represent a definitive break with the Bush ­presidency’s ostracising of the group.”

Read the full story in The Guardian here.