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Jimmy Carter's Secret Hamas Summit
Toronto Star ^ | January 27, 2006 | Mitch Potter

Posted on 01/27/2006 10:08:46 AM PST by ncountylee

JERUSALEM - The mood was disaster-in-progress when the unflappable Jimmy Carter stepped into the room yesterday to share a few quiet moments with the Toronto Star.

The official returns were flowing in, showing a Hamas victory almost beyond anyone's calibration.

The hard fist of political Islam didn't just enter the Palestinian parliament. It is the parliament.

As the numbers sunk in, CNN, BBC, Sky and Fox went into "breaking news" mode, quickly bulking up with pundits uttering obituaries for peace. The greening of Palestinian politics now had consigned the region to another hopeless eternity, it seemed.

At 81, clear-eyed and calm, America's most beloved ex-president — who yesterday sanctified the Palestinian election as head of the 950-strong international observer mission — took the earthquake in stride.

With the debate turning to whether the Palestinians' major international benefactors, the European Union and the United States, should allow themselves to maintain contact with a government led by Hamas — a group that has not unequivocally abandoned its founding principle of the destruction of the state of Israel — Carter let us in on a fascinating anecdote he has never spoken of publicly.

Ten years ago, Carter himself sat down with Hamas in an attempt to bridge the gap between PLO chief Yasser Arafat and the then-fledgling militant Islamic group.

As a personal favour to the late Palestinian leader, and in the spirit of the newly minted Oslo Accords, Carter went hunting for Hamas, to lasso them into the political process.

"Arafat asked me if I would contact Hamas and see if they would accept the new government with him as president, and to find out what their demands might be," Carter said.

(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Israel; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hamas; jimmycarter
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To: ncountylee
America's most beloved ex-president

Coffe SPEW!!!

21 posted on 01/27/2006 10:21:26 AM PST by Lunatic Fringe (North Texas Solutions http://ntxsolutions.com)
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To: ncountylee
...a group that has not unequivocally abandoned its founding principle of the destruction of the state of Israel...

The "unequivocally" is totally and intentionally misleading.

They haven't "abandoned" the "founding principle" in the slightest. They are now celebrating their "victory" as the first step in the destruction of Israel.

Also it isn't just by a few "radicals". It is by multitudes who are willing to become "martyrs"

22 posted on 01/27/2006 10:21:58 AM PST by Dan(9698)
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To: ncountylee
[America's most beloved ex-president...]

Utter nonsense.

23 posted on 01/27/2006 10:22:04 AM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie because he didn't bake one.)
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To: ncountylee; All

Perhaps THIS is why the democrats are in total fear of survelance of terror groups.

If Carter or Jessie Jackson or Ted Kenedy or John Kerry or Hitlary are talking to Hamas then their conversations are fair game.


24 posted on 01/27/2006 10:22:19 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: ncountylee
"America's most beloved ex-president"......

Huh???

25 posted on 01/27/2006 10:22:37 AM PST by teletech (Friends don't let friends vote DemocRAT)
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To: ncountylee
At 81, clear-eyed and calm, America's most beloved ex-president

This article desperately needs a BARF ALERT...
26 posted on 01/27/2006 10:23:29 AM PST by Antoninus (The only reason you're alive today is because your parents were pro-life.)
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To: ncountylee
America's most beloved ex-president

In North Korea annd Cuba....


27 posted on 01/27/2006 10:23:32 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: ncountylee
...America's most beloved ex-president...

Cough...cough...

28 posted on 01/27/2006 10:24:09 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: ncountylee

At 81, clear-eyed and calm, America's most beloved ex-president...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're KILLING ME!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please STOP!~}


29 posted on 01/27/2006 10:25:39 AM PST by funkywbr
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To: rhombus

"At 81, clear-eyed and calm, America's most beloved ex-president"

The writer has written, therefore, it must be true.


30 posted on 01/27/2006 10:26:13 AM PST by Hayzo
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To: longtermmemmory
Good point. I thought ex-Presidents and others in former administrations should not to interfere with the US foreign policy. Not so obviously!

(OK, I knew that Carter couldn't care less, and he was a pain in the a-s already during RR's magnificent 8 years, but I just had to say it. )
31 posted on 01/27/2006 10:27:21 AM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: ncountylee

Jimmah!
32 posted on 01/27/2006 10:28:13 AM PST by TheForceOfOne
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To: ml/nj
No, Amy was too busy making "No Nukes!" protest signs, baking granola bars, and combing her airpits.

Meanwhile, back at the Bush White House.....

This photo is a prank, from Maxim magazine, but what the hell....


33 posted on 01/27/2006 10:32:15 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: ncountylee

Little Jimmy Carter, one of the worse presidents that ever held office.


34 posted on 01/27/2006 10:32:59 AM PST by Dustbunny (Can we build it - Yes we can - Bob the Builder - Can we win it - Yes we can - Geo. W. Bush)
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To: rhombus
I think they mean that he's beloved by everyone but Americans.

I know Chavez, and that whack job from North Korea both think he's peachy.

35 posted on 01/27/2006 10:40:03 AM PST by tcostell
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To: tcostell

Don't forget the North Vietnamese.


36 posted on 01/27/2006 10:42:01 AM PST by rhombus
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To: Dustbunny; All

Does anyone have the email to the editor of the Toronto Star?

Beloved is a joke when talking about jimmy carter. If anything he is one of the most reviled and ridiculed expresidents.

To call him beloved is editorialising at its worst or just ignorant at best.

The Toronto star should be put on notice that Jimmy Carter is considered a pompous nut job.

If they wanted beloved they should have watched the public honor Reagan. (at the capitol, and just simply lining the street spontaneously. THAT IS beloved)


37 posted on 01/27/2006 10:43:45 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: OXENinFLA
"America's most beloved ex-president"

Of those still living? Ford, Carter, Bush I, Clinton?

Ok, maybe...a huge stretch and exaggeration...but that's like saying "this is my most beloved unpaid utility bill"...
38 posted on 01/27/2006 10:47:11 AM PST by mobyss
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To: ncountylee

Jimmie wasn't even a good peanut farmer. How could we expect him to be a success at driving nails.


39 posted on 01/27/2006 10:47:33 AM PST by hgro (A)
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To: SkyPilot

Barbie Bush...drool...


40 posted on 01/27/2006 10:48:39 AM PST by mobyss
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