Posted on 10/22/2012 2:09:04 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter condemned Israel on Monday, saying the prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are fading into a crisis.
Carter told a news conference in Jerusalem on Monday said the Israeli-PA peace process has reached a crisis point and that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government was not interested in pursuing a two-state solution.
Carter arrived here this week with other members of “The Elders” – group of former world leaders who are in the region to visit Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and Egypt. He claimed that continued construction in Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and areas of Jerusalem restored to the capital during the 1967 Six Day War is making the prospect of peace less and less likely.
The former president said the situation has reached a “crisis stage,” adding that Washington has “zero” influence to resolve the decades-long conflict. Carter also said the ability of the U.S. to persuade Israel to change its policies had dropped to its lowest level in 45 years. Nor was the one-term Democratic president optimistic that the United States could “reassert its influence.”
Carter expressed pessimism about the future of any final status agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority while Netanyahu is in office. He made it clear that he believes that Israel's prime minister has given up on the idea of a two-state solution.
"The policy of promoting a two-state solution seems to be abandoned now and we are deeply concerned about this move towards this catastrophic so-called one-state choice... this is a major concern,” Carter said. "All indications to us is that this two-state solution has basically been abandoned and we've had a moving forward towards a 'greater Israel' which I think is contrary to the two-state solution concept,” he said.
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Putting bop in the bopbababopbabop; Putting ram in ramadamadingdong; Strange disappearances of Christian children around Passover; Failure of Viagara to make him potent; Making Nobel Piece Prize into a mockery; Fact that DNC will not seriously consider him for run at second term; Fact that Freepers keep calling him Jimmuh.
How many more years before we can stop at Billy’s garage and rent some beer?
Again? Isn't this a quarterly thing that Jimma does? What next? Al Sharpton calls white people racists?
Yay for Jimmy! Keep talking, and remind the voters how much he is like his soul brother Barry!
Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
Funny thing is most people condemn Jimmy Carter for being Jimmy Carter.
Hey peanut brain ... what part of human don't you understand?
Go to Iran and blsme THEM for something.
end of life in 3 ... 2 ... 1
“...and in related news, Walter Cronkite is still dead, and the New York Times is still on the slow trail to oblivion...”
So what? Jimmah is firmly condemned to the innermost ring of h*ll. Treachery.
Isn’t that where they’re ultimately eaten by Satan?
More breaking news: the sun came up this morning.
In other news water is wet and ice is cold..
Carter is blaming Israel for the conflict between the savages and the civilized people. He has chosen the side of the savages.
Carter has been blaming Israel for years, nothing new here. Carter has a deep hatred for Israel.
Jimmah, Obozo called and he has an opening in Bengazi that's just perfect for you.....!!!!
LOL
Can’t understand the newfangled technology dagnabbit. Coffee goes right through him too fast these days. Porcelana not working on his age spots. Iran in the news reminds him of “those bad times.”
Can't somebody just put him in a nursing home or something! PLEASE!
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