U.S. set to lift Palestinian embargo

[Scurrilous]

Source: Associated Press

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"The Bush administration is poised to lift its economic and diplomatic embargo against the Palestinian government in the West Bank now that a U.S.-backed moderate has evicted Islamic radicals from governance.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is expected to announce the new U.S. stance early this week, a senior U.S. official said Sunday. That announcement will coincide with a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who is holding high-level talks in Washington beginning Monday.

The White House declined to comment Sunday, but Jacob Walles, the U.S. consul-general in Jerusalem, said Saturday that the international aid embargo imposed after Hamas won parliamentary elections last year will no longer apply to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' government, and that he expected it to be lifted this week.

The U.S. move essentially would reset U.S. policy to the days before the Islamic militant group Hamas swept legislative elections in early 2006 and upended U.S. and international peacemaking. The United States, Israel and the European Union regard Hamas as a terrorist organization."





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[badgervan]

1. So Much For....

... spreading democracy to the middle east. Does anyone have a functioning brain in this administration? Don't they see what everyone else sees here: the hypocrisy of shunning the winners of the election, then giving aid and backing to the losers? These bushies are not just idiots - they're dangerous idiots!

[sofa king]

2. It's divide and conquer.

That's what made America what it is today. Just ask the Oglala Sioux, the Sicangu Sioux, the Shakopee, the Yankton, the Upper and Lower, the Cheyenne River Sioux....

Their system of government doesn't mean shit, so long as our plutocracy dominates.

[IndianaGreen]

3. Who evicted who? Abbas is a joke, he is mayor of the West Bank

The U.S. move essentially would reset U.S. policy to the days before the Islamic militant group Hamas swept legislative elections in early 2006 and upended U.S. and international peacemaking.

The US joined the Israeli rejectionism after those dastardly Palestinians refused to endorse the America puppet at the ballot box.

We love democracy only when the candidates we support win.