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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Being a submariner myself, I have a theory who Jimmy Carter is so whacked out. Let me share it.
I firmly believe that snorkel mast head valve on either Pomfret or K-1 shut one to many times and the diesels drew such a horrendous vacuum that any brains he had were sucked out of his nostrils.
Spoken like a Johnson-era Democrat. Israel also honored Motor Torpedo Boat 203 which fired the deadly torpedo at the Liberty. The Israelis murdered American servicemen. High above the attack, an EC-121 ferret listened to the Israelis talking on the radio net about the American flags flying on the ship. The Israelis knew who they were killing.
In 1977, President Carter, on a trip to Poland, wanted to tell the people, "I wish to learn your opinions and understand you desires for the future," but his interpreter made it come out as "I desire the Poles carnally." The interpreter also had the president telling the Poles that he had "abandoned" the United States that day, instead of leaving it. After a couple of hours of such gaffes, the president wisely abandoned the interpreter.
Based on his performance since leaving office, I'd hazard the interpreter had it right.
You were saying something about the "dustbin of history"? Here is somebody who agrees with you.
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
Jimmy Carter is a shmuck. Don't even think about putting me in his company.
You yourself made the statement placing those who disagree with you "in the dustbin of history"
Until you distance yourself from that despicable and arrogant statement, I'm putting YOU in YOUR OWN company.
C'est pas MOI qui se mettre à son compagne.
S'il vous plait.
Has Jimmy Carter ever been right in his life about anything? While he was president, I thought he was just stupid. But having watched him since, it's hard not to conclude that it's some sort of deep malice of the worst kind.
Was there ever a dictator, a terrorist, or a Communist, whom he didn't love?
The era you mention is before Mad Moe the pedophile prophet.
Israel is causing Islamic Jihad, like a beautiful women beauty causes rape. Carter is using burka logic.
Israel has brought the only peace and freedom to this area in the last millenium. My bet is if the Arabs would immigrate to Arabia there would be peace.
Lets give peace a chance.
You, Hilter and the Sand-Nazi's all agree. Make you all warm inside?
You have to remember that it is the liberals that will be killing millions in the name of Utopia for the anti-christ. Gotta get rid of all the "others" to make room on this tiny planet ya know. Some build sand castles, some stomp them.
Obviously most people's first thought when reading that. Can Carter truly be that much of a moron? Apparently so. It's enough of an embarrassment that he was our president. Now we have to have "Carter II."
Reread the Book of Joshua. Notice what God commanded.
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