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Arabs hope for Obama change, Israelis expect more of same

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21 January 2009 – Yahoo News
Arabs were hopeful on Wednesday that President Barack Obama will make changes to US policy on the Middle East, in stark contrast to Israel in the wake of the Jewish state’s deadly assault on Gaza.

“This region is looking forward to your handling of the Palestinian cause from the first day of your tenure,” Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said in a cable to congratulate Obama on his inauguration.

“It is an urgent priority and the key to all the other difficult crises of the Middle East,” said Mubarak, whose country is hoping to negotiate a lasting ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.

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Hamas tells Obama to learn from Bush’s mistakes

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Two members of the Ezzedine Al-Qassam brigades, Hamas’s military wing, give a press conference in Gaza City on January 19, 2009. Hamas’s armed wing said today that it lost only 48 fighters during Israel’s 22-day operation in Gaza. Israel has said that it killed more than 500 Hamas members during Operation Cast Lead that it launched on Gaza on December 27 and which it ended on Sunday with a unilateral ceasefire.[Images by AFP/Getty Images - Daylife.Com]

21 January 2009 – Yahoo News

Hamas on Wednesday called on President Barack Obama to learn lessons from the mistakes of his predecessor George W. Bush and said it would judge the new US leader by his acts.

“We will judge him by his policies and actions on the ground and how he will learn lessons from the mistakes of the previous administrations,
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