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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Further evidence (as though any were needed) that the Peanut-head has never been any "honest broker" between the two sides - he is a squishy-minded leftist unconcerned with even permitting Israel to protect itself from the barbaric hordes of Islamo-fascists.
Brain dead ex-President alert.
One Big sigh of relief
Its the Promised Land "GOOFBALL" Your Arab cohorts will never own one square inch of it! Genesis 15 :18 if you care to read it. The math works out to approx 292,000 square miles and its ALL Jewish Territory no matter how much they try to negotiate and barter for peace with it. Almighty God gave it to them only (The Jews). The Jewish Nation coming in the future not those in the land today will inherit all of this parcel that will totally exclude those that are not Jewish as the true proprietors of it. Shimon Peres- the consumate liberal & all his cronies will not be around then.
I would like Mr. Carter to define, or describe, Palestine before he starts proposing any solutions.
"He's got a point."
On another thread you wrote:
"It is hard to believe that the U.S. gov't for almost 40 years has kept quiet that it knows that Israel deliberately attacked a U.S. ship, and it is equally hard to believe that not one of the Israeli pilots nor gun boat commanders, nor any of the people in central command, have come forth to admit this crime. It strains credulity."
I think we can safely assume that your agreement with Carter here is born of nothing but your blind bigotry.
Having read your comment again, I realise I was totally in error and withdraw my previous comment without reservation and offer my apology.
To believe that Carter has a point though is nothing short of barmy.
I would love to elaborate on this but decorum prevents me.
He has become a tape loop.
Why not at least consider an article that seems to us to be inflammatory and wrongheaded?
Who agrees with what he is saying? We have little opportunity in this country to hear criticism of the situation in Israel,maybe trusts and past agreements and understandings have not been honored. If this is so then we are ignorant or stupid or ill intended to just summarily toss his article aside.
I could not bear Mr.Carter and broke off an engagement because my fiancee,who was an Air Force officer supported him and I felt that there was a chasm to large to breach if he could support him.
I think anything Jimmy says should be dismissed. He is a huge failure looking for a legacy that will never come.
You would think that the peanut would read the Bible. I don't know who said it but, "what ever Jimmy says do the opposite and everything will turn out fine." And this just validates it.
Someone's writing this stuff for him. Is he getting Arab money for his charities? He's offering a counter-Democratic narrative for what Clinton said about Arafat.
If the settlements didn't exist it would have about zilch effect on resolution of the dispute.
BTW, I've noticed in lefty diatribes the word "Arafat" has been scrubbed as clean as a Stalin photo.
Of course, "blocking peace" has absolutely nothing to do with Islamic maniacs, who have been Hamaside-bombing Jewish women & children--- and professing to be the "Religion of Peace".
Oh, I forgot. Jimmy shares the same moral values as his Nobel Peace Prize colleague, the late Yassir Arafat. How careless of me.
You were prob'ly right to break off the engagement, however, I married the woman who disagreed with me about the existance of prisons, and now she agrees with me!!!
That says it all.
It's "Jimmah", and that's priceless!!!
I could be wrong but didn't God give the Israelites that land?
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