Posted on 04/17/2008 11:43:48 PM PDT by Nachum
(IsraelNN.com) Former US President Jimmy Carter says Palestinian Authority Arabs living in Gaza are being “starved to death” by Israel.
Carter made the claim speaking with students at the American University in Cairo on Thursday, saying that Gaza Arabs are receiving fewer calories per day than people in the poorest regions of Africa.
“It’s an atrocity, what is being perpetrated as punishment on the people in Gaza,” said Carter. “It is a crime… I think it is an abomination that this continues to go on.”
The former president has not actually visited Gaza; Israel declined to authorize his use of the Israel-Gaza crossings and there were no indications he requested an entry from Egypt.
Carter neglected to mention that the region’s crossings with the rest of Israel have been closed since the Islamist Hamas terrorist organization seized total control of the area and began launching constant attacks on Israeli civilians. He also didn’t mention that the crossings are opened daily for the delivery of humanitarian aid, including truckloads of food, medical and other supplies into Gaza.
On Thursday, while Carter was denigrating Israeli treatment of Gaza residents, Hamas terrorists infiltrated through the Kerem Shalom Crossing and attacked an IDF post while trucks were passing through the crossing with essentials for Gaza.
The terrorists attacked the same area in which IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit was kidnapped in June 2006. Two soldiers were murdered and another soldier was seriously injured during that attack as well. Shalit’s condition and whereabouts are unknown; his parents have been hoping that Carter will be able to find out information about their son, if not convince his Hamas captors to free him altogether.
Despite the opposition of the American government, Carter was to meet Friday in Damascus with Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal, who is the apparent power behind Shalit’s kidnappers.
Carter met Thursday in Cairo with two senior Hamas officials from Gaza, Mahmoud al-Zahar and Said Seyam. The Israeli government refused to allow the former US president to meet in Gaza with the Hamas terrorists.
perfidy and mendaciousness-- get a copy of "Reagan's War."
Open the book to the middle, and read detail after detail of how Carter undermined America, before, during, and after he weaseled his way in to office as a "reformer..."
He, and Clinton, are excellent examples of why you have to be very cautious about who you enable by voting for them.
Perhaps Carter was allowed to go to remind America how naive, impotent, idiotic and obsequious Democrats are...
why can’t this anti-american anti-semetic a-hole just die already and take his anti-american anti-semetic a-hole wife with him!!!!
Didn’t Israel have some of the most advanced hydroponic greenhouses in Gaza, and when they left it, the Palis immediate set about looting it out of existence instead of caring for it to feed themselves?
I can't help wondering if anyone in Gaza actually works for a living.
> Perhaps Carter was allowed to go to remind America how naive, impotent, idiotic and obsequious Democrats are...
‘Strewth! I hadn’t even thought of that...!
If you’re right, it would be President Bush’s single most brilliant act of domestic policy — bordering on outright Patriotism — of either of his two terms. It would be the work of a Political Genius. A master stroke.
The wrong Carter brother died young. Give me good ol’ beer-drinking Billy over this pathetic anti-Semite.
It's a little thing called Cause and Effect, guys.
Jimmy the Jew-hating, terrorist-loving traitor.
Like I said earlier on another thread, Dhimmi Jimmuh can go and kiss my pro-Israel Dixie tailpipe!
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Summary of Humanitarian Assistance to Gaza Today
April 17th, 2008
IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UPDATE
Approximately 27 trucks of humanitarian aid and supplies were transferred into the Gaza Strip today via the Kerem Shalom crossing before it was forced to close due to the attack on the crossing. In addition, 800,000 liters of diesel fuel for heating and 240,000 tons of gas were transferred via Nahal Oz which also closed during the afternoon after Palestinian snipers fired at the crossing. The assistance was organized with the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories.
The following is a list of supplies transferred through the Kerem Shalom crossing: oil, paper, meat, nylon bags used for greenhouses, rice, fruit and halva.
I’m sure they are dropping like flies there from hunger.
From what I’ve read the Israelis had built a remarkable greenhouse array to grow needed veggies. They turned to operation over to the Palis when they withdrew from the area.
The Palestinians simply went in like scavengers and took the pumps and piping and anything else of value and stripped it all down and sold it all for scrap.
So much for a profitable food growing business.
Now we’re told we need to contribute food for the Palis living there?
OK
This is the same sort of logic whereby you blame the victim for getting in the way of the bullet’s trajectory.
The former president has not actually visited Gaza
The former president continues to dazzle us with his grasp of foreign affairs.
A bigger rube has never occupied the White House.
He was a President for a short while, too long for some.
He could not resolve a problem with his Muslim friends that lasted over 400 days.
It took the new incumbent less than a month to resolve this problem.
He drove the greatest economy in the world to a standstill.
Can’t expect someone “that bright” to realize that GAZA has passed to Palis control since 2005. No one was starving before this unconditional territory transfer.
Before his ex buddy arrival, GAZA had a booming economy in 1993 and then he came… Arafat!
The Palis are shooting at the trucks crossing into their GAZA territory. Do they look interested in the welfare of their citizens?
This blame game will continue as long as the WESTERN WORLD does not hold the Palis responsible for the present situation in their self governed and controlled territories!
As long as we keep sending them aid the conflict continues and we share some level of responsibility to the victims!
Jimmah got it wrong in his speech in Egypt; HAMAS is spending the loot on arms and missiles instead of raising the standard of living in its controlled territory.
Miss Rice you persist in your proposals in sending Palis more armament, more training and more funds?
GW your last year in power looks more and more like the last Clinton year and the Jimmah legacy. Wise up!
The only shame that i’m witnessing is by all you Zionist. Your hate and violent nature is amazing to me. Haven’t the Zionist killed enough people, how many more do you Zionist plan to Kill? Oh wait hmm I’m anti-semite hahah, you can’t even use that argument because ur not even semite ur european fake Jews khazars, mongolians. All your crying wolf days are over you have been exposed. Your nothing but terrorist not the arabs nor president Carter. Peace idiots, one day you will have to meet your creator. peace
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