Posted on 04/28/2008 6:59:15 PM PDT by Alouette
Ex-US president blames Israel for denying Gazans food, water; says Hamas won elections 'fair and square'
WASHINGTON – Blaming Israel, again: Former US President Jimmy Carter says that following his meetings with Hamas leaders the group offered a truce in Gaza but Israel rejected the offer. During an interview with NBC, Carter also blamed Israel for denying the citizens of Gaza basic supplies such as water and food.
"I think it was productive, because all the things that we asked Hamas to do, they basically agreed to do," Carter said, referring to his recent trip. "One was to have a total ceasefire just in Gaza alone, where before they had said it must be Gaza and the West Bank as well. So they preferred to have a ceasefire, and announced it publicly after we left. Israel unfortunately rejected the ceasefire from Hamas.
"There's no way to have peace in the Middle East without bringing the Palestinians back together if Hamas represents at least half of the Palestinian people," Carter added, citing the 2006 elections the United States insisted be held. "Hamas won the election fair and square. They got a majority of seats in the Parliament."
"But then the United States and Israel declared that there wouldn't be a Palestinian united government, so they declared that Hamas was a terrorist organization. They refused to negotiate with them. They refused to give food and water and electricity and other supplies to people under Hamas' leadership in Gaza, and that broke the whole situation down," he said.
'Assad hopeful'
Carter also criticized the US, which he said was preventing the renewal of the peace process between Israel and Syria. Carter said he met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the latter told him that he had been distanced from peace talks by the US Government, but was now hopeful talks would be resumed.
In an article published by the New York Times, Carter said that Hamas would accept any truce agreed upon by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, on the condition that it had been approved by the elected parliament. Carter also said Hamas would disarm its military wing in Gaza if a non-political security force was established in the Strip.
Referring to kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, Carter said that if Israel were to agree to the list of prisoners that the Palestinians demanded be released, and freed the first batch, Shalit would be transferred to Egypt until the other prisoners were released.
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Yo jimmah, Israel was sorta busy picking Hamas rockets out of their butts to take any offer seriously....he's such a deal maker
What happened to him not having any negotiating power and not representing anyone?
What happened to him not wanting any?
Do I remember that he took money from the PLO for the carter center?
I wouldn’t let him run a candy store.
Carter could have stayed in Syria or Gaza if he likes Hamas so much, and nobody here on FR would care.
Signed,
An utter nincompoop er, Jimmah.
Carter has made himself into a joke. He is worse than irrelevant. He is invisable.
Big, hairy deal... it is like saying Castro won the elections in Cuba the past 50 years -- fair and square...
Israel rejects calls for it to commit suicide...
This is a preview of the Hillary/Obama foreign policy.
I wonder if it hurts to be that stupid?
"Hamas won the election fair and square. They got a majority of seats in the Parliament."
"But then the United States and Israel declared that there wouldn't be a Palestinian united government, so they declared that Hamas was a terrorist organization. They refused to negotiate with them.
Looks like that time line of his is screwed up beyond repair.
As I recall, HamAss was a terrorist organization long before the "elections", along with all the ramifications, including the 'no negotions'.
So did this guy...
Jimmy Carter, the best friend of terrorists everywhere.
He is beyond despicable.
btw, it has been little noted but the fake nuclear deal he ‘negotiated’ with North Korea in 1994, which did nothing in reality to stop NK’s march toward nuclear weapons, also helped to pave the way for the nuclear reactor that NK was helping to build in Syria. In 1994 there was almost a decision in the Clinton admin. to really force the end of NK’s nuclear activities, and that summer there was talk of bombing raids, war, etc. so Jimmy jetted off to Pyongyang, against the wishes of the Clintonistas, and then announced a ‘deal’ had been reached, again without the decision of the US govt., so Carter protected NK from any resolute western action. It was his pretended Chamberlain “peace for our time” — now years later we find that NK was on the verge of completing a reactor for the production of plutonium to provide Syria with nuclear weapons.
It is no stretch to say that Carter actively helped NK get to the point of nearly providing genocidal nuclear weapons to Israel’s mortal enemy.
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