Posted on 01/13/2015 7:59:43 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Former President Jimmy Carter said the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was among the factors that led to the deadly attacks last week in Paris.
Carter made the assertion Monday night during an appearance on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart.
“Well, one of the origins for it is the Palestinian problem. And this aggravates people who are affiliated in any way with the Arab people who live in the West Bank and Gaza, what they are doing now — what’s being done to them. So I think that’s part of it,” Carter told Stewart.
He called the training in the Middle East of Muslim extremists with passports from countries such as France, Britain and the United States a “new evolutionary development in terrorism.”
“They stay there for a few months and learn how to be a terrorist, and then they come back through Turkey and you know they have been there and you know who they are,” Carter said. “And I think this event in Paris is going to waken up the people in charge of security to watch those people more closely than they have in the past — and not single out all of the Muslims in the country.”
Carter, who wrote a book called “Palestine: Peace not Apartheid,” told Stewart that it was “disheartening” to think about how much time has elapsed since the Oslo Accords — signed in 1993 — without a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.
“I still have hope for peace in the Middle East, but a distant hope,” he said.
Carter said the United States must be “in the forefront of demanding that the Palestinians and the Israelis come together and accept a reasonable solution to the problem.”
His formula, he told Stewart, is for Israel to give up the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem and for the Palestinians to promise Israel security.
Let’s take a hard focus on the behavior of jihadists.
(please do not tell me I actually needed the sarcasm note?)
This might clue us in to the cause of the attacks.
Well, maybe if jimmy hadn’t given Iran to the radical muslims there might be a different dynamic in the middle east. Ya think?
buzz off Carter
The cause is Carter’s failure to nip Islamic terrorism in the bud when the hostages were taken in Iran, and his undermining of the Shah.
Carter must lock his closet door at night because a Jewish boogieman lives in there.
Seriously, what a loon.
Annapolis, please please remove the name of this worthless POS from your records.
Do this in the name of the country, honor, integrity, and in the admitting that your entrance committee really dropped the big one when you let this loser in.
Israel gave up Gaza and the Palestinians started using it as a missile base. They gave up parts of the West Bank and the Palestinians destroyed all the Christian and Jewish Holy Sites.
Why in the Name of the God he professes to believe in does Carter think the Palestinians will do any different if Israel gives up Jerusalem?
Oh please Father Time and the Actuarial Tables, please turn your overdue attention to Mr. Carter.
And to "relocate" the Joooooz into "camps" in Poland...
RE#: and for the Palestinians to promise Israel security.
Maybe Jimmy should climb over the Tiger’s cage at the Bronx Zoo and hope the Tiger doesn’t act like one.
Fine. Lets get rid of the problem by getting rid of Palestine.
Jordan gets the denizens of the West Bank; Egypt gets those of Gaza. Israel annexes both territories.
Problem solved, right?
Jimmy Carter ,stuck on stupid stupid stupid stupid
Well at least he did not blame Bush.
The day Peanut Brain Carter no longer can blame the Jews, will be a national holiday here and in Israel.
Just give up your capital city, and nobody will get hurt. Only why did Israel expand her borders in the first place? Was there a reason, Mr Carter? Did something happen that might have encouraged that move?
Winners might write history, but losers can certainly write fiction.
0bama is a young man with a big mouth.
We’re gonna have to deal with 30 years of this cr*p from Bambi.
*Sigh*
Remember when the fiends in the liberal media would go to the Alzheimer impaired Barry Goldwater and ask him questions designed to tear down Conservatives? I put the hapless nitwit Carter in the same category.
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