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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Speechless.
Everytime you figure he could not say anything more stupid, he finds a way to top himself
Jimmah is evidently oblivious to the Arab bombings of civilians..he ought to stick to shoving peanuts up his, well you know where.
I won't miss Mr. Carter when he's gone.
Jimmuhh also says he say a flying saucer, and a killer rabbit!
Sounds like Jimmyy escaped again.
Further proof that kicking their fellow Jews in the teeth does nothing to help make other people like Israelis better.
This has become typical and standard rhetoric for this animal. He is one of the worst Presidents in our history, disgraced and sad.
Nor will I.
Indeed, since Israelis are now doing the Arab terrorists job of kicking Jews out of their homes perhaps they will eventually start killing Jews to save their enemies the trouble.
My favorite part of the article was when Jimmah was actually complaining about Israel leaving the Gaza Strip for the Palestinians...and calling Gaza a "non-viable economic and political entity"....
And whose fault is that, Jimmah??
The Palis were the ones that trashed the homes and greenhouses that had been painstakingly taken care of, not the Israelis...Gaza has a beach, why don't they do something with it...
Better yet, Jimmah...why don't you, and your Habitat for Humanity folks build FREE houses for every Palestinian..and see how grateful they are, and how well they take care of them.
Jimmy Carter is an Iranian agent.
Once bought, he stays bought.
Carter's been taking serious Arab money for a long time, and he's providing the service they paid for.
What an idiot. Make that, "What!!? An idiot?"
He's got a point.
This from the "man" who:
-- Canceled the B-1 bomber
-- Gave away the Panama canal
-- Urged the Shah to do nothing while the Islamists took Iran
-- Almost singlehandedly destroyed the US economy.
-- Did nothing while the Russians invaded Afghanistan.
Many of the problems we are experiencing today incubated under his sorry-a$$ watch. Does anyone (except the MSM) really care what this man says?
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