Israel's colonisation of Palestine blocking peace, says Jimmy Carter

Guardian ^ | March 18, 2006 | Chris McGreal

[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.|

[Joan Kerrey]

Israel deliberately attacked a U.S. ship,

The words are true but the inference is utter nonsense. Israel attacked what they thought was an enemy ship. Friendly fire happens in war. I guess you could also say the U.S. soldiers deliberately attacked American service people every time there is a friendly fire accident in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[TWhiteBear]

The only good thing about Jimmah was that he made the Great RR mandate possible. The night Jimmah lost the election is clear in my memory to this day.

[captmar-vell]

i cant believe this dumb@#$ ever held such a high office

he's every bit as sleazy a creep as the purple rage sink spiller.

[eclectic]

Absolutely. No Jews - no problem. This was called the Final Solution. Jimmah finds himself in a good company.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Too much exposure to goobers turns the brain into peanut butter.

[Wiz]

anti-semitism from Jimmy Carter ping!

[Hildy]

I would bet my life he's getting Arab money....I wish someone would do an investigation.

[Farmer Dean]

The wife and I won't miss him when he's gone,but we plan a party when he goes.We keep a bottle of the bubbly chilled at all times ,just in case.

[DC Packfan]

I'm gonna do that! Keep a bottle ready for Jimmah, Teddy, Bubba (I know he's going before me!), Osama been hidin', and any others that I can justify putting a bottle on ice for.

[winker]

The final Estate I speak of is "NEW JERUSALEM" not new Israel! Today's current residents in the Jewish Nation and certainly not all;thankfully are in large part either Atheistic or Agnostic spiritually. Messianic Jews are the small existing group who will become premminent in the NEW JERUSALEM in the future. This will gradually become fact in the world of the Middle East after much Blood soaks the earth through ignorance and hatred. Hadrian and the Romans tried to eliminate the Jews and failed and so will this current group of ingrates that Almighty God is about to deal with!

[Salem]

"He's got a point."

Yeah, it's on his head.

[ChildOfThe60s]

>"Israel's colonisation of Palestine blocking peace, says Jimmy Carter "

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

And he lusted in his heart for the latter......

[Salem]

That this was published in Haaretz, after yesterday's vile little screed, doesn't surprise me. Yet this brilliant diplomat and "peacemaker" has nothing to say about the documented cultural apartheid of the Arab world enforced against the "Palestinian" Arabs. And the inevitable failure of the "peace process" is already blamed on Conservative America and the Jews.

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[festus]

Go get bent you peanut head pansy and let the real men fix the mess you never could.

[monkeyshine]

Jimmy Carter is an idiot. He is an idiot living in the past. He is an idiot living in the past who has not learned from his own experience.

He is an idiot.

He is an idiot living in the past, because he speaks on this topic as if it were 1993. Israel has dismantled dozens of settlements, withdrawn completely from Gaza, and is on the path to unilaterally withdraw from a lot more land and separate from over 99% of the Palestinian population. Jimmy Carter does not consider these events in his idiotic pronouncement.

He is an idiot living in the past who has not learned from his own experience - because Israel settled in the Sinai and that did not prevent a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. He helped make that deal happen at Camp David. Yet he doesn't consider that fact when he makes this idiotic pronouncement.

[takeemout]

We should just get out of the way and let Israel take care of business. Then we would read an article where a few words would be changed: "colonisation" to "decimation," "Palestine" to "entire region" and "blocking" to "doing wonders for."
Also, take "says Jimmy Carter" away too. His problem is that he gets his tongue caught in his eye tooth and he can not see what he's saying.

[Salem]

"Also, take "says Jimmy Carter" away too. His problem is that he gets his tongue caught in his eye tooth and he can not see what he's saying."

LOL!! 

[JBGUSA]

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.

[RoadTest]

To this has-been posing as a Christian, I say this: "From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast." - Joshua 1:4

I don't know about anybody else, but I believe God.

[veronica]

Lord knows how much money the peanut farmer is getting from Arab entities to spew his Jewhating garbage. I suspect there is that to some degree behind his hatred of Israel.