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But in seriousness, if W ever discussed this topic back then, I would imagine we'd find a similar volte-face.
I thought he was opposed to an American state.
US President Ronald Reagan launched his peace plan on the Palestine Question on September 1, 1982 following Israel’s war against the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon. The specific proposals made in the Reagan Peace Plan may be summarized as follows:
-Full autonomy for the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza during a transitional period of five years, which would begin to run after an election of a self-governing authority.
-A freeze on Israeli settlements during the transitional period, because further settlement activity is in no way necessary for the security of Israel and only diminishes the confidence of the Arabs that a final outcome can be freely and fairly negotiated.
-The US will not support the establishment of an independent Palestinian State in the West Bank and Gaza, nor their annexation or permanent control over them by Israel.
-The final status of the West Bank and Gaza must be decided through negotiations, but it is the firm view of the US that self-government by the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza in association with Jordan offers the best chance for a durable, just and lasting peace.
-In return for peace, Israel would withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza, except from such part as would be required to assure its security. The plan specifies that the extent to which Israel should be asked to give up territory will be heavily affected by the extent of true peace and normalization and the security arrangements offered in return.
-Jerusalem must remain undivided, but its final status should be decided through negotiations.
It makes even more sense now, with Jordan and Israel being on good terms.
-Eric
Jimmie is just another liberal caught in his duel thinking. He just can't have it both ways.
Jimmy 'I fought the killer rabbit and survived' Carter - an ex-President still in search of a legacy.
This is the perfect example of the kind of lies this man told back then to deceive people and get elected.
It's delusional to think that if the Palestinians have their own state, they'll stop blowing up innocent Jewish men, women and children.
"Pay close attention, for what is playing out in Israel today is the future of the West."
Israel is the size of a small postage stamp with 6 million people surrounded by 200+million mooselimbs. Whatever happens in Israel might be an indication of mooselimb's desire for the west, but it's a far cry from a predictor of the future.
If tehran nuked Israel out of existance, it would indicate that they want to do the same to the US, but certainly wouldn't mean that they could do it.
What has changed...?
Fellow traveller$ go with the $trong hor$e.
I support a Palestinian state: how else can Israel declare war and put an end to this crap. Give 'em a country then annihilate it the first time one of their state supported murderers cuts loose in Israel.
Some statesman.
I figured this statement was "current" Carter, and that the kicker would be that he wanted the Palestinians to be given all Israeli land, ASAP.
I cringe whenever I read or hear "American Statesman" in the same sentence with Carter. He is a total embarrassment. Too bad Billy isn't around still to show him how to be a real American.
Will Jimmy Carter's State become a possession of Iran? The answer is in the way he and his people want to deal with Islamist expansionism overseas.
The turning point for Mr Carter is (1)his ego, (2)an absence of a final peace between Israel and her immediate neighbors, (3)the fact that his own beliefs in the myths of land-for-peace have failed, and he knows it, and (4)his age, which is diminishing the time for him to complete his ego-satisfying sense of his "legacy".
In other words, the "turning point" for Carter is that time is running out, for him, and it is more convenient to blame others than to acknowledge the mistaken myths which contributed to his own failures.
Carter is very much like many Middle Eastern Arabs (not all). He creates myths in his own mind and no ongoing evidence to the contrary can shake the myths that now form a prism through which all events must be filtered. It is a convenient way of (1) denying reality and (2)denying your own guilt.