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Obama talks about Hamas

As violence mounts in Gaza, the president-elect is letting President Bush handle foreign policy. But during the presidential campaign, he made several statements about Hamas.
Mark Schone

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  • Saturday, December 27, 2008 07:42 PM

    Am I missing something?

    Hamas launches homemade rockets into Israel, and once in a while an Israeli gets killed. However, after every rocket launch, Israel rains fiery death onto Gaza and kills dozens if not hundreds of Palestinians.

    So why am I supposed consider Hamas the bad guys here? Israel's response is always amazingly over-the-top disproportionate to whatever Hamas did to them, I have no sympathy for them anymore. How many Hamas attacks do you have to aggregate to equal the 200 Palestinians killed by Israel today?

    I don't expect Obama to share my views, but I do expect him to put an end to the "Israel can do whatever it wants" policy that has arisen from US's cowardice in confronting Israel.

    —Mr Smith Read Mr Smith's other letters

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