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Hamas puppetmasters? Palestinians push Obama, Clinton to “bully” Israelis

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caption id alignalignleft width210 captionThe rhetoric emanating from Hamas continues to inflame Palestinian hatred for the Jews. Photo Memriimg srchttpcdn2b.examiner.comsitesdefaultfilesstyleslargehash249124919af81b2a6cf0c0404274d87376fb.jpg altThe rhetoric emanating from Hamas continues to inflame Palestinian hatred for the Jews. Photo Memri width210 height170 captionThe Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas this past weekendrequested that the Obama Administration andthe U.S. State Departmentlean on theIsraeli government to get them tohalt the eviction of a Hamas lawmaker from Jerusalem.One of the top Palestinian negotiators, Saeb Erekat, whovisited Washington,delivered a letter from PresidentAbbas to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. According to Xinhua news service,Abbas letter urgedtheObama administration to intervene on behalf of Hamas lawmaker Mohammed Abu Tair.An Israeli court judge had ruled last Wednesdaytoevict Abu Tair from hisJerusalem home and return him to Ramallah in the Palestinian occupiedWest Bank. Israeli authorities hadfirstdetained Abu Tair in June for entering East Jerusalemafter his residency permit was revokedfollowing the 2006 parliament elections in which Hamas won a number of government positions.In addition,an Israeli intelligencesource said thattwo Hamas lawmakers and a former Hamas minister werebeingsought in order tobe deportedfrom Israel.The men are allegedlyhiding somewherein Jerusalem in fear of being deported as well.According to officials with the U.S. State Department, Abbas wrote to Clinton that the eviction of the Jerusalem residents adds more obstacles to the efforts in reviving the peace process. But the Israeli security chiefs claim they are merely taking precautions given Hamas continuing threats and past terror attacks on the Jewish people.The Israelis are doing what any sane and caring government would do protecting its citizens and visitors from individuals tied to terrorist groups, said political strategist Mike Baker on Sunday.The Palestinians know that in Obama and Clinton they have friends who have a history of siding with the Palestinians. In fact. Hillary Clinton made a name for herself when she supported Yasser Arafats Palestinian Liberation Organization PLO. And President Obama is a close friendof a Palestinian supporter who is now a professor at Columbia University in New York, said Baker.In a World Net Daily story by Aaron Klein that accusedObama of accepting donations from Palestinians, then Sen. Barack Obamascampaign contended it returned 33,500 in illegal contributions from Palestinians in Hamascontrolled Gaza, but the donors told Aaron Klein of WND they never received any money from the Obama campaign.President Abbas threatened Israel and the U.S. with ending the Palestinian National Authority if peace talks collapse again.He told viewers ofthe Palestinian Satellite Television Network, or PSTN,during the live televisedinterview that he had informed the Israelis many time that if the peace talks fail, he would dissolve the Palestinian Authority.Abbas alsoclaimed during the interviewthat theObama administration had informed him that it will continue its talks with Israel over freezing settlement and resuming the stalled peace talks.I wont accept to keep the negotiations with Israel, if the latter resumes construction of settlements, said Abbas. The U.S. told me that it will keep talking to Israel and it cant say whether these talks had succeeded or failed.