In North Korea annd Cuba....
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 ...
Coffe SPEW!!!
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"
Utter nonsense.
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.
Huh???
In North Korea annd Cuba....
Cough...cough...
At 81, clear-eyed and calm, America's most beloved ex-president...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You're KILLING ME!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please STOP!~}
"At 81, clear-eyed and calm, America's most beloved ex-president"
The writer has written, therefore, it must be true.
Meanwhile, back at the Bush White House.....
This photo is a prank, from Maxim magazine, but what the hell....
Little Jimmy Carter, one of the worse presidents that ever held office.
I know Chavez, and that whack job from North Korea both think he's peachy.
Don't forget the North Vietnamese.
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)
Jimmie wasn't even a good peanut farmer. How could we expect him to be a success at driving nails.
Barbie Bush...drool...
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