Monday, November 26, 2012

U.N. Middle East Envoy: I Have Maintained Contacts With Hamas For Years

Photo: Robert H. Serry at the UN security council, New York City (Dec. 2009)

U.N. Envoy To Middle East Acknowledges 'Quiet Engagements' With Hamas -- McClatchy News

JERUSALEM — The United Nations envoy to the Middle East acknowledged in an interview with McClatchy Sunday that he has maintained quiet contacts with the Islamist group Hamas for “years,” despite the international community’s official policy to isolate the group.

Robert Serry described his office’s contacts with Hamas, which has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007, as “quiet engagements” and said his office was working now, in the wake of a cease-fire agreement that ended eight days of Israeli bombardment of Gaza, “hoping to help the parties get to a more durable solution.”

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My Comment: Talk about making a mockery out of the international community’s official policy to isolate Hamas. But it is probably because of these contacts that he got appointed to this post in the first place.

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