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2008-04-14 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by tu3031 2008-04-14 09:47|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Shin Bet also refused to cooperate with the Secret Service.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-04-14 11:44|| 2008-04-14 11:44|| Front Page Top

#2 If we're lucky, Hamas will kidnap him.

If we're very lucky, Rice'll let them keep him.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-04-14 13:28|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-04-14 13:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Carter also thinks the US should talk to Hamas, like he did. He wants to be an intermediary between us and the terrorists. He is disappointed that the Israeli government won't talk to him.
He still thinks of himself as a peacemaker rather than a troublemaker. Why doesn't he just go back to Georgia and build homes for Habitat for Humanity?

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-04-14 13:31|| 2008-04-14 13:31|| Front Page Top

#4 give the man some credit

he seems to have condemned the paleo shelling of Sderot with no moral equivalency and only a minor added 'hope'.

"I think it's a despicable crime for any deliberate effort to be made to kill innocent civilians, and my hope is there will be a cease-fire soon"

did Condi ever make a statement like that?

Posted by mhw 2008-04-14 13:40|| 2008-04-14 13:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Carter has no f-ing clue about the muslim mindset. His efforts are in vain.

Posted by gorb 2008-04-14 15:37|| 2008-04-14 15:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Gorb, I think he understands just fine. They have a common value system

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-14 16:15|| 2008-04-14 16:15|| Front Page Top

#7 I agree with gorb. Carter actually believes he can change Hamas by talk. He did broker the Peace Agreement between Egypt and Israel. I don't know exactly what part he actually played, but he does see himself as the one person in the world who can bring everybody together and sing Kumbaya. I don't think he has a clue to the Islamic mindset.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-04-14 16:44|| 2008-04-14 16:44|| Front Page Top

#8 He sounds like what he is, a pathetic old man trying to get back to the Big Time...

AIRPORT CITY, Israel - Former President Jimmy Carter defended his plan to meet with the top leader of the violently anti-Israel Hamas movement, saying Monday he hopes to become a conduit between the Islamic militant group and Washington and Israel.

Isolating Hamas is counterproductive, Carter said. Hamas rules the Gaza Strip but is ostracized by Israel, the U.S. and European Union as a terrorist group. "I think it is absolutely crucial that in the final and dreamed-about and prayed-for peace agreement for this region that Hamas be involved and Syria will be involved," he told a business conference outside Tel Aviv. "I can't say that they will be amenable to any suggestions, but at least after I meet with them I can go back and relay what they say, as just a communicator, to the leaders of the United States," he said.

The U.S., EU and Israel have blacklisted Hamas for its history of killing some 250 Israelis with suicide bomber attacks and its refusal to renounce violence and recognize the Jewish state.

Israel's top leaders are boycotting Carter during his nine-day Mideast trip, in part because he plans to meet later in the week in Syria with Hamas' exiled supreme leader, Khaled Mashaal.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Tom Casey said the U.S. government has "made clear our views that we did not think now is the moment for him or anyone to be talking with Hamas."

U.S. officials will be "happy to hear" Carter's reflections on his visit with Hamas, but that they aren't likely to change the administration's views on the militant group, Casey said.

Carter also offered to relay Hamas' views to Israel. If the U.S. agrees to hear what Hamas says, "I hope then the Israeli government will deign to meet with me they have so far refused," he said.

Maybe because they know who and what they're dealing with? Who wants to deal with the Jimmy Carter bullshit anymore besides the people who can play him like the useful idiot violin he is?

Posted by tu3031 2008-04-14 16:56|| 2008-04-14 16:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin."

Posted by Lillian Carter 2008-04-14 20:29|| 2008-04-14 20:29|| Front Page Top

#10 give the man some credit

Not buying it. Any time I hear the phrase "innocent civilians", warning lights start flashing. Too many times terrorists have claimed that Israeli civilians are legitimate military targets on the grounds they grow up to serve in the military or they voted for the current government.

Posted by SteveS 2008-04-14 22:47|| 2008-04-14 22:47|| Front Page Top

#11 I don't think Carter's role as peace broker was all that significant. I read that Sadat unexpectedly expressed interest in dealing, and the broker's job fell in Carter's lap. An Arab leader who is willing to break ranks with the Jew-haters and risk his own neck to benefit his country is a hero.
Carter, on the other hand... We owe the world an apology for voting to inflict him on a long-suffering world. I voted for Ford, but if leftists can apologize for Bush I suppose I'd better apologize for Carter.

Posted by James">James 2008-04-14 23:37|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2008-04-14 23:37|| Front Page Top

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