Heartache: Secretary of State Rice Sends Message of Praise To Hamas

WTF??!!!! Okay, as most of my readers know, I have a fairly high trust in DEBKA even though they have been a little "loose" with their information in the past but this news, that Sec. of State Condi Rice has sent a friendly message to Hamas leader Khalid Meshaal, well...I just hope this is an out and out misrepresentation. If this is true, I want calls from Republican Congressmen and Senators to President Bush to have her removed, IMMEDIATELY.

Here's the mention of this at the article at DEBKA:

As part of the incipient thaw in US relations with Damascus, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has relayed a friendly message to Hamas political leader Khalid Meshaal through Syrian foreign minister Walid Muallem’s aides.
The message, described by Moussa Abu Marzouk, one of the heads of Hamas’ Damascus headquarters, as a “verbal communication.” was received as four Syrian divisions completed their deployment on Lebanon’s borders last week (see exclusive map). In the message, Rice praised the Palestinian terrorist group for halting its missile fire into Israel.

So our Secretary of State is now "praising" terrorist organizations for not killing innocent people for a few weeks? What kind of a damn message does that send?

There is no reason, whatsoever, for ANY official of the U.S. Government to EVER, EVER send ANY message to Hamas other than a couple hundred of JDAM's onto their heads.

Like I say..if this is true, Rice needs to be removed immediately and I got some serious questions for President Bush as to how this communication is supporting Israel. Does anyone in the State Department think for one fucking minute that Hamas appreciates a nice message from America? What are these State Department people smoking?

If this message was sent, I'd say that we see Hamas rocket attacks on Israel resume in a few days as they send a message that they don't want to be doing anything that pleases the great satan of the west. Unbelievable.

Syrian Troops Enclose Lebanon, Rice Contacts Hamas

As part of the incipient thaw in US relations with Damascus, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has relayed a friendly message to Hamas political leader Khalid Meshaal through Syrian foreign minister Walid Muallem’s aides.
The message, described by Moussa Abu Marzouk, one of the heads of Hamas’ Damascus headquarters, as a “verbal communication.” was received as four Syrian divisions completed their deployment on Lebanon’s borders last week (see exclusive map). In the message, Rice praised the Palestinian terrorist group for halting its missile fire into Israel.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly 369 of Oct. 24 exposed the complete deployment - from the Syrian 4th Division along Lebanon’s northern border and the 10th, 12th and 14th Divisions on Lebanon’s eastern frontier opposite the Hermil mountains and the Beqaa Valley, and down to the Hermon Mountains facing South Lebanon and northern Israel.
Neither the Americans nor the Israelis had expected Damascus to round off this troop concentration so fast. It was taken for granted that Damascus would wait to the spring of 2009, after the rainy season. However, president Bashar Assad saw two advantages in going ahead before the Nov. 4 US presidential election:
First, Israel would be unlikely to strike in the days leading up to the US election and, second, Damascus would present the new man in the White House with a fait accompli.
The first concentration of 6-8,000 Syrian troops was disclosed in DEBKA-Net-Weekly 367 on Oct. 3 when two Syrian commando brigades of the 4th Mechanized Division took up positions along 2 km of the El Kebir River which marks that sector of the border - opposite northern Lebanon and its largest town of Tripoli.
Then, last week, Damascus consigned the 12th Mechanized Division to the border of the Lebanese Beqaa Valley and its central mountains, so completing the encirclement.
Syrian military positions now range from points opposite the northern Lebanese town of Al Qaa on Mt. Hermil to points further south up to the Massena border crossing 50 km north of Beirut. The Syrian 4th and 12th Divisions abut on the 10th Division ranged opposite South Lebanon and the disputed Shebaa Farms enclave. The military chain continues with the 14th commando division positioned on the Syrian slopes of Mt Hermon opposite Israeli military positions.