Incoming administration will abandon Bush's isolation of Islamist group to initiate low-level diplomacy, say transition sources.::::::::
"The incoming Obama administration is prepared to abandon President Bush's doctrine of isolating Hamas by establishing a channel to the Islamist organisation, sources close to the transition team say."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/08/barack-obama-gaza-hamas
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