Rice to Press for Isolation of Hamas-led Government

[shugah]

Rice to Press for Isolation of Hamas-led Government

Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will press U.S. allies today in London to deprive the incoming Hamas-led Palestinian government of financial support unless it abandons terrorism and accepts the existence of Israel.

The U.S., reacting to the setback to its Middle East policy posed by the surprise victory of Hamas in parliamentary elections Jan. 25, is seeking to build a consensus on withholding aid. European Union foreign ministers, meeting in Brussels today, said Hamas deserves time to embrace peace before a decision is made to cut off aid.

``The United States is not prepared to fund an organization that advocates the destruction of Israel, that advocates violence,'' Rice said while traveling to London.

Rice, who arrived late yesterday in the U.K., today plans to review the Palestinian elections with representatives of the United Nations, European Union and Russia. That group, known as the Quartet, has been working on negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis intended to lead to a peace agreement.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=anuicPLINbKw&refer=us

[saigon68]

1. She said as she smiled and Parroted the Neocon line

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Isn't Democracy grand

Unless of course you lose the election.

[bothwell]

4. Perhaps

she could nave a chat with some of the British politicians who wre negotiating with the IRA long before they denounced terrorism

[Abathar]

13. Winners?

It was a lose / lose situation for the Palestinian people no matter who they voted for.

[Ian David]

3. But... but... we SPREAD DEMOCRACY! They followed Bush's "Roadmap to Peace"

Surely, if we isolate them that would mean our foreign policy is failing!

This cannot be!

FRREEDOM IS ON THE MARCH!

[ClintonTyree]

8. But it isn't a King George sanctioned Democracy........

that makes all the difference in the world. It's not a Democracy until it's sanctioned by King George. Period.

[Ian David]

10. Yeah? Well... FREEDOM IS ON THE MARCH! IT'S MARCHNG, I TELL YOU!

MARCHING!



MARCHING!



MARCHING!



MARCHING!



MARCHING!



MARCHING!



FREEDOM IS ON THE MARCH!

[saigon68]

17. Good Work

[AnneD]

20. Well what do you expect....

not every country has Diebold voting machines... Maybe instead of Democracy on the march, it should be Diebold on the march.
I'm sorry but I have been laughing my butt off since the election. An Israeli friend of mine was saying that it might not be such a good idea to have democracy in some countries-the opinion on the street might be more radical than we care to deal with. Be that as it may, I am glad to see Bush finally having to confront the results of a true democratic election.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. Gee all that sabatoging of Arafat sure has paid off well. nt.

[stevekatz]

9. I think

Arafat didn't need much sabotaging, he did a good enouph job of it by himself

[Warren Stupidity]

25. You think wrong.

The Israelis and the US decided it would be a good idea to render Arafat powerless and to deliberately humiliate him, under the theory that they would have better luck with the next generation of Fatah leaders. That theory worked fine except of course the next generation of Fatah leaders weren't going to survive the next election. So instead Hamas is running palestine.

[wordpix2]

6. Biden said he advised * to give $$ for hospitals, social programs to Fatah

Also $ for other social programs, to show Palestinians their government was helping them. But of course, dangerous moron Bush refused and called for democracy.

Well, you got what you wanted, you f**%%$#$* idiot *

Biden said this on Imus today

[rfranklin]

7. DU to press for isolation of Bush-led government....

The people of America are not prepared to fund a group that terrorizes by invading defenseless countries, killing civilians indiscriminately, and by imprisoning and torturing people against all accepted conventions of international law.

[springhill]

11. Okay......

When's the invasion planned?

[Demeter]

12. Condi's Going to Be Grateful When She Gets To Jail

She'll need the time off, badly.

Honestly, is there a person more clueless in this Administration than Rice? Even Bush is smarter than this.

[cliss]

14. Well, this proves one thing....

CondaLiar Rice is no diplomat. In fact, she is clueless about human behavior and alliances. She stinks as

She foolishly believes all she has to do is 'isolate' countries which are not the flavor of the day. (mind you, she has nothing against Pakistan, which is a dictatorship & is our #1 enemy).

What Condiment Rice doesn't realize, is....you isolate too many countries, and guess what? They will ally themselves AGAINST YOU. It's the old phrase, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".

Rice will NEVER get that.

[MGKrebs]

15. Great. Another 50+ years of punishing poor people.

It's worked so well in Cuba and N. Korea.

[IndianaGreen]

16. This bitch should be driven over an IED in Iraq!

The Bush regime has done nothing for peace in the Middle East and should stay out of the entire process. Let Israel and the Palestinians work this out among themselves and, if let Israel have a unilateral peace if things don't work out.

[warrens]

18. Weer fer democracy lessen the wrong guy wins

See Bush v Gore, 2000. We believe in democratic elections as long as we win. If we lose, we oppose democratic elections.

[Endangered Specie]

19. I guess it would have looked strange for DIEBOLD election

machines to be there, explains why the election wasn't rigged.

[catmandu57]

21. I'm waiting for the world to isolate the * government

Hopefully before these stupid ass cocky bastards decide to throw a few nukes into Iran.

[LynnTheDem]

22. So she DOESN'T support DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS.

Only leaders (democratically elected or not) who support US rightwingnut government.

Now why can't she just be honest and say so flat out.

HAITI.

[pinniped]

23. * should abandon terrorism as a tactic as well.

This will never happen because where there's death, there's $$$$ to be made.

[anitar1]

24. Well, good for Bucky! she is such a jewel. n/t

[0007]

26. Yikes!