Hey, remember that time when the Democrats had a Presidential candidate who attended a church for 20 years that supported Hamas, who had advisers meeting with Hamas and urging him to engage Hamas, and who endorsed the 2006 Hamas election? And remember how the Jewish left insisted that supporters of the US-Israel alliance were wallowing in paranoia because Obama was "a stalwart enemy of Hamas?"

MR, Feb. 27, 2009:

At least Obama didn't stack his administration with anti-Israel hacks like all those voters filled with "Obama paranoia" said he would. I'd say we're about a month away from a climbdown on his oh-so-nuanced election promise not to engage Hamas, with a Palestinian unity government providing the thin pretext.

Chicago Tribune, April 26, 2009:

he Obama administration... has opened the door, if only slightly, to engagement with the militant group Hamas. The Palestinian group is designated by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization and under law may not receive federal aid. But the administration has asked Congress for minor changes in U.S. law that would permit aid to continue flowing to Palestinians in the unlikely event that Hamas-backed officials become part of a unified Palestinian government.

I was a month off, though it fairness to me I couldn't have expected Obama to blatantly pour funds into Hamas coffers beforehand, undercutting their incentive to move even an inch during unity talks. The best part is how the Obama administration is actually pushing Fatah into a unity government. Which means that the Obama administration is actually trying to create their own pretexts for funding Hamas.

Just for fun, here's a link about the left's disingenuous anti-Palin smear, saying she supports Hamas. Not like Obama, who is "a stalwart enemy of Hamas."

As always, I'm not really upset by the actual policy. Of course I would prefer it if the US President wasn't funding the genocidal anti-American enemies of a democratic ally, after 15 years of administrations which promised to support Israel if American-initiated "risks for peace" didn't pay off. But what do you expect? And I'm not even surprised by the left's bad faith on this, given how pervasive it is on issues as huge as torture and as petty as flu funding.