Posted on 04/17/2008 3:03:15 PM PDT by Alouette
Former US president defends meetings with Hamas terrorists, tells university students in Egypt sanctions imposed on Gaza Strip are 'criminal atrocity' after meeting in private with Hamas leaders. 'For every Israeli killed,' says Carter, 'between 30 to 40 Palestinians are killed because of the extreme military capability of Israel'
News agencies Published: 04.18.08, 00:27 / Israel News
Former US President Jimmy Carter called the blockade of Gaza a crime and an atrocity on Thursday and said US attempts to undermine the Islamist movement Hamas had been counterproductive.
Speaking at the American University in Cairo after talks with Hamas leaders from, Carter said Palestinians in Gaza were being "starved to death" and received fewer calories a day than people in the poorest parts of Africa.
"It's an atrocity what is being perpetrated as punishment on the people in Gaza. It's a crime... I think it is an abomination that this continues to go on," Carter said.
Carter said Israel and the US were trying to make the quality of life in Gaza markedly worse than in the West Bank, where the rival Fatah group is in control.
"I think politically speaking this has worked even to strengthen the popularity of Hamas and to the detriment of the popularity of Fatah," he added.
Carter said Hamas, which does not recognize Israel's right to exist, must be involved in any arrangements that could lead to peace.
"One of the reasons I wanted to come and meet with the Syrians and Hamas was to set an example that might be emulated by others... I know that there are some officials in the Israeli government that are quite willing to meet with Hamas and maybe that will happen in the near future," he added, without naming who those Israeli officials may be.
Asked for Qassams to stop
Carter's talks in Cairo were with former Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar and former Interior Minister Saeed Seyam, who did not speak to reporters. Hamas officials have touted the meetings as a recognition of their legitimacy after their 2006 election victory.
Carter said he had also asked Hamas officials to stop rocket attacks into Israel.
He said that during his visit to Israel, the first stop on his regional tour, he saw rockets that had been fired by Hamas and ''met with people who lost loved ones.''
''At the same time, if you live in Gaza, you know that for every Israeli killed in any kind of combat, between 30 to 40 Palestinians are killed because of the extreme military capability of Israel,'' Carter said.
There was more criticism of Carter in Washington, where U.S. Congressman Joe Knollenberg, a Republican from Michigan, proposed legislation to prohibit federal funding of the Atlanta, Georgia-based Carter Center. The bill has very little chance of approval.
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama also criticized Carter, saying he had a ''fundamental disagreement'' with the former president. ''We must not negotiate with a terrorist group intent on Israel's destruction,'' Obama said.
In Israel, all the country's senior political leaders except President Shimon Peres declined to meet with Carter when he visited.
He is expected Friday in Syria - the latest stop on a tour he calls a private Mideast peace mission - where he said he will meet with Hamas' exiled political chief Khaled Mashaal, as well as Syrian President Bashar Assad. Afterwards Carter is also to visit Saudi Arabia and Jordan before returning to Israel late Sunday.
133/82?
I think I would give some thought to maybe eating some extra bananas for a while, the potassium will nudge the BP down a little? For what it’s worth I called Super Giant pharmacies in your area and apparently they don’t carry Olive Leaf Extract as a supplement, but there is a reference to it on the CVS website so it might be in their inventory.
Good luck with that! :)
They shouldn’t have elected a bunch of terrorists to be their so-called leaders. Consequences, folks; consequences.
Have them build houses Jimmah. If they’re building houses, they won’t have time to be hungry.
Ditto!
Thank you very much, mkj!
Jimmy Carter is the Neville Chamberlain of our time, and one day history will portray him so. Well, that’s not fair because Chamberlain eventually saw the light. He’s more like Quisling or Lord Haw Haw.
Well, Jimmah, here’s the deal. When Satan is your god, there is not a lot of blessing from the one and only God coming your way. Got it?
A great idea1 He can grow peanuts for his pet palesimians!
Let them eat carnitas.
News agencies Published: 04.18.08, 00:27 / Israel News
Former US President Jimmy Carter called the blockade of Gaza a crime and an atrocity on Thursday and said US attempts to undermine the Islamist movement Hamas had been counterproductive.
Speaking at the American University in Cairo after talks with Hamas leaders from, Carter said Palestinians in Gaza were being "starved to death" and received fewer calories a day than people in the poorest parts of Africa.
"It's an atrocity what is being perpetrated as punishment on the people in Gaza. It's a crime... I think it is an abomination that this continues to go on," Carter said.
Carter said Israel and the US were trying to make the quality of life in Gaza markedly worse than in the West Bank, where the rival Fatah group is in control. ****SNIP*
"One of the reasons I wanted to come and meet with the Syrians and Hamas was to set an example that might be emulated by others... I know that there are some officials in the Israeli government that are quite willing to meet with Hamas and maybe that will happen in the near future," he added, without naming who those Israeli officials may be.
This is real "barf" material, a total surrender to moral equivalence. I did not understand, prior to 1980 election, that US policy could be different. We sure learned how wonderful a strong, effective muscular policy could be. We learned, after 8 years of surrender by Clinton, on September 11, 2001 again what appeasement begets. Carter has not only failed to learn from his own mistakes, he has gotten far worse, almost to the point of treason.
Alouette quoting article about Carter said:Asked for Qassams to stop
Carter said he had also asked Hamas officials to stop rocket attacks into Israel.
Again, as effective as his nice requests to Teheran, include Ahmajenajad (sp) to release US hostages.
He said that during his visit to Israel, the first stop on his regional tour, he saw rockets that had been fired by Hamas and ''met with people who lost loved ones.''
''At the same time, if you live in Gaza, you know that for every Israeli killed in any kind of combat, between 30 to 40 Palestinians are killed because of the extreme military capability of Israel,'' Carter said.
The guy is either out to lunch, a traitor or hopelessly naive.
Pass me the world’s smallest violin!
P.S. Dhimmi Jimmuh can kindly go kiss my pro-Israel Dixie tailpipe.
He cannot get over the fact that 20 some years ago he lost the presidency. He’s not pretending to speak for America. What a Wuz.
If Jimmy Carter had been one of the Jews enslaved and oppressed by Pharaoh, I believe there is a better than even chance that Moses, after directing his people to put blood on the outside of their homes to ward off the angel of death that would be killing the first born of every family in Egypt, would have sneaked out at about 2:00 am to put a fresh coat of paint and varnish on Jimmy’s door and hang a neon sign “Jimmy lives here and is fresh outta blood”.
ROFL! Excellent!
So maybe Carter could give them the advice to stop buying rockets, bombs and bullets and buy food or start to farm or something. Or maybe Carter wants them to continue trying to kill Jews. I hope both, the Gazans and Carter, drop dead.
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