Lest there be any confusion about the real priorities of President Obama, within the first week of assuming office he issued an executive order (EO) directing that $20.3 million in “assistance’ be directed to Hamas in the wake of its most recent run-in with Israel. In an EO signed January 27, 2009 found here President Obama directed that the funds be paid to Hamas out of the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund, claiming that it was in the “national interest” for him to do so.
