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Carter: Bush âtoo busyâ for Israeli focus
Why doesnât he die already?FORMER US president sure - rub it in Jimmy Carter said overnight that President George W. Bush was too busy handling a broad range of international affairs to focus on settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "Heâs obviously distracted - thatâs why he doesnât give the PA everything they want, like I or Bill C would" "It would be impossible today for president Bush to go in immersion at Camp David with Israelis and Palestinians for 13 days to work out an agreement" Carter said, recalling his own experience exactly 25 years ago ahead of the signing of the Camp David peace accords with Israel and Egypt. Spending 13 days in close proximity to Arafat is too much to ask of anybodyAt the time, Carter went to work at the Maryland mountain retrait joined by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. After 12 days of private talks they emerged and signed the first agreement ever between Israel and an Arab neighbour. "The president has so many foreign policy problems on his desk," Carter said, from Iraq to North Korea to terrorism and nuclear arms proliferation. "half of which I caused or compounded" he said, grinning widely Carter, who spoke at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, said the roadmap for Mideast peace including the creation of a Palestinian state by 2005 was "identical with the basic premises of Camp David, Oslo and the Declaration of Principles," the first peace pact between Israel and the Palestinians signed in Washington September 13,1993. "except the Jews wouldnât die, dammit" Posted by: Frank G 2003-09-17 |
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