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Israel's colonisation of Palestine blocking peace, says Jimmy Carter
Guardian ^ | March 18, 2006 | Chris McGreal

Posted on 03/17/2006 5:43:52 PM PST by ncountylee

The former US president Jimmy Carter has described Israel's "colonisation of Palestine" through expanding Jewish settlements as the single greatest obstacle to a resolution of the conflict. Mr Carter, 81, who negotiated the 1978 Camp David peace accord between Israel and Egypt, wrote in the Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz yesterday that Israel's actions doom any Palestinian state to a "dismal" future and will perpetuate violence across the Middle East. "The pre-eminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonisation of Palestine," he wrote. "Israel's occupation of Palestine has obstructed a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land, regardless of whether Palestinians had no formalised government, one headed by Yasser Arafat or Mahmoud Abbas, or with Abbas as president and Hamas controlling the parliament and cabinet."

Mr Carter also questioned Israel's commitment to the US-led "road map" peace process. "Israel has officially rejected its basic premises with patently unacceptable caveats and prerequisites," he said.

He said Israel was insincere at peace negotiations during the 1990s when it offered to withdraw only a small proportion of the 225,000 settlers living in the West Bank. "Their best official offer to the Palestinians was to withdraw 20% of them, leaving 180,000 [Israelis] in 209 settlements, covering about 5% of the occupied land," he said.

"The 5% figure is grossly misleading, with surrounding areas taken or earmarked for expansion, roadways joining settlements with each other and to Jerusalem, and wide arterial swaths providing water, sewage, electricity and communications. This intricate honeycomb divides the entire West Bank into multiple fragments, often uninhabitable or even unreachable."

This week the acting Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said that if he wins this month's general election, as expected, he will annex the main settlement blocks that are home to about 80% of settlers.|

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: enemywithin; jimmycarter; watersedge; worstpresidentever
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1 posted on 03/17/2006 5:43:56 PM PST by ncountylee
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To: ncountylee

Speechless.


2 posted on 03/17/2006 5:44:36 PM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: ncountylee

Everytime you figure he could not say anything more stupid, he finds a way to top himself


3 posted on 03/17/2006 5:45:04 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Are you not entertained? Are you NOT entertained? Is this not what you came here for?)
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To: ncountylee

Jimmah is evidently oblivious to the Arab bombings of civilians..he ought to stick to shoving peanuts up his, well you know where.


4 posted on 03/17/2006 5:45:52 PM PST by Meadow Muffin
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To: ncountylee

I won't miss Mr. Carter when he's gone.


5 posted on 03/17/2006 5:46:50 PM PST by skr (We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.--Ronald Reagan)
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To: ncountylee
>"Israel's colonisation of Palestine blocking peace, says Jimmy Carter "

Jimmuhh also says he say a flying saucer, and a killer rabbit!

6 posted on 03/17/2006 5:47:01 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (The people did feast upon lamb and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfastcereals)
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To: ncountylee

Sounds like Jimmyy escaped again.


7 posted on 03/17/2006 5:47:32 PM PST by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: ncountylee

Further proof that kicking their fellow Jews in the teeth does nothing to help make other people like Israelis better.


8 posted on 03/17/2006 5:48:49 PM PST by Honestfreedom
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To: ncountylee

This has become typical and standard rhetoric for this animal. He is one of the worst Presidents in our history, disgraced and sad.


9 posted on 03/17/2006 5:49:11 PM PST by n230099
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To: ncountylee
If a terrorist or dictator drops trou...Jimmy will be there all puckered up.
10 posted on 03/17/2006 5:50:34 PM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: skr

Nor will I.


11 posted on 03/17/2006 5:51:14 PM PST by sport
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To: Honestfreedom
'Fraid so. My wife once asked me what makes a "liberal Israeli" a "liberal." I told her, "Liberal Israelis want to throw themselves into the sea."
12 posted on 03/17/2006 5:52:13 PM PST by Shalom Israel (There's a reason cows ain't extinct.)
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To: Shalom Israel

Indeed, since Israelis are now doing the Arab terrorists job of kicking Jews out of their homes perhaps they will eventually start killing Jews to save their enemies the trouble.


13 posted on 03/17/2006 5:55:47 PM PST by Honestfreedom
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To: MNJohnnie

My favorite part of the article was when Jimmah was actually complaining about Israel leaving the Gaza Strip for the Palestinians...and calling Gaza a "non-viable economic and political entity"....

And whose fault is that, Jimmah??

The Palis were the ones that trashed the homes and greenhouses that had been painstakingly taken care of, not the Israelis...Gaza has a beach, why don't they do something with it...

Better yet, Jimmah...why don't you, and your Habitat for Humanity folks build FREE houses for every Palestinian..and see how grateful they are, and how well they take care of them.


14 posted on 03/17/2006 5:57:25 PM PST by Txsleuth (Bush-Bot;WaterBucket Brigader;and fan of defconw;Cboldt is my mentor!)
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To: ncountylee
Didn't Israel at one point offer everything but Jerusalem.... Carter can't be out of touch enough to think Israel is ever voluntarily gonna give up Jerusalem.
15 posted on 03/17/2006 5:59:22 PM PST by gondramB (Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.)
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To: ncountylee

Jimmy Carter is an Iranian agent.


16 posted on 03/17/2006 6:00:36 PM PST by Spruce (Keep your mitts off my wallet)
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Jimmeh is an honest politician, in the Chicago sense.

Once bought, he stays bought.

Carter's been taking serious Arab money for a long time, and he's providing the service they paid for.

17 posted on 03/17/2006 6:00:50 PM PST by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: ncountylee

What an idiot. Make that, "What!!? An idiot?"


18 posted on 03/17/2006 6:04:34 PM PST by Waco
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To: ncountylee

He's got a point.


19 posted on 03/17/2006 6:04:44 PM PST by kenavi ("Remember, your fathers sacrificed themselves without need of a messianic complex." Ariel Sharon)
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To: ncountylee

This from the "man" who:
-- Canceled the B-1 bomber
-- Gave away the Panama canal
-- Urged the Shah to do nothing while the Islamists took Iran
-- Almost singlehandedly destroyed the US economy.
-- Did nothing while the Russians invaded Afghanistan.

Many of the problems we are experiencing today incubated under his sorry-a$$ watch. Does anyone (except the MSM) really care what this man says?


20 posted on 03/17/2006 6:06:50 PM PST by rbg81
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