Posted on 05/03/2015 2:12:44 AM PDT by SaveFerris
Ramallah (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Former US president Jimmy Carter on Saturday urged Palestinians to hold elections to end the de facto division of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Islamist-run Gaza Strip.
He was speaking at a joint news conference with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in the Palestinian political capital Ramallah in the West Bank.
"We hope that sometime we'll see elections all over the Palestinian area and east Jerusalem and Gaza and also in the West Bank," said Carter, a member of the independent Elders Group of global leaders.
No election has been held in the occupied territories for nearly a decade.
Abbas's presidential mandate expired in 2009, but he remains in office since there has been no election. The Palestinian parliament has also not met since 2007.
In 2006, a year after Abbas was elected, Hamas won the most recent Palestinian legislative elections. Differences between Abbas's Fatah party and the Islamist Hamas then led to the so-called "inqissam", or division.
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Then things change.
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas (right) shakes hands with former US president Jimmy Carter during their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on May 2, 2015 (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)
Why does Jimmy love the Palestinians so much?
Jimmuh...if anyone cared what you think you would have had a second term.
The enemy of my enemy...
Must be a Democrat thing; it's the preferred party of self-hating Jews.
Don’t know for sure. I can only guess Replacement Theology.
Hey Jimmy, have a Billy Beer and STFU!
I really wish he would jut go away to trembling hills and never be heard from again
knowing jimm-uh, he probably picked up a habitat for humanity hammer to help reconstruct those tunnels of destruction of Israelis in support. good on Israel for not meeting with the terrorist sympathizer.
Thanks for being there Turd Carter...
Liberals love to support perceived underdogs. It doesn’t matter who is the actual underdog. All that matters is who is perceived to be the underdog in the liberal community.
Some useless dead things jusy dont go away.
Why does Jimmy love the Palestinians so much?
This poor guy never was or ever will be too bright and continuous to work on his legacy. A little late but he keeps on trying..
When is that traitorous scum ball going to meet it’s maker?
It's not that he loves the muslims, no one with even a bit of brain could do anything but despise muslims, it is why does he hate Israel so much.
We used to call that a dictator.
The old Peanut farmer bigot is still messing up the earth because Satan doesn’t want him to mess up Hell. He took millions of islamonazi bribe money earlier then most sell- out politicians and the one thing we gotta vice the basturd is he’s stayed bought
Hitler hated Arab Muslims but found them useful. In 1941 he almost refused to meet with Haj Amin al-Husseini until his adjutant reminded him,
“Mein Fuehrer, the Mufti has blue eyes.”
As for Jimmah Carter, he is Hitler survived to an old age; learned nothing and forgotten nothing. A globetrotting former president Obama will only be more of the same.
Thank goodness it is now the position of the Israeli government that Carter is persona non grata.
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