Jimmy Carter Defends Meeting With Hamas

"I think that it's very important that at least someone meet with the Hamas leaders to express their views, to ascertain what flexibility they have, to try to induce them to stop all attacks against innocent civilians in Israel and to cooperate with the Fatah as a group that unites the Palestinians, maybe to get them to agree to a cease-fire—things of this kind."

April 13, 2008 at 12:40 pm - This Week
Dateline: Katmandu, Nepal
PaleRyder   April 13th, 2008 - 1:34 pm

I’ll give Carter credit for one thing,he has done good work since leaving office.But..his abilities as a leader, especially foreign affairs is pathetic.He gave us the hostage countdown,11 percent mortgage rates and a complete breakdown of the justice dept while he served.Him meddling in foreigns affairs as elections is one thing,but sticking his 2 cents worth in on terrorists is a joke.He has been trying to change his legacy as one of our worst ever presidents and doing this will not help.The amount of contempt the dem leadership shows for some of our allies is unbelievable.You do not negotiate with terrorists or any who basically want the wests way of life eliminated.I just do not understand the thinking in democrat leaders heads anymore..American buisness is bad,taxes are to low and they think they can fix it and bring us all together with more programs more spending and run it better themselves.They refuse to talk to American buisness(cause they are evil) but are waiting in line to talk to Ahmanajad,Hamas,Chavez or Soros.All of whom had said time and time again they want our economy to fail and Americans dead.The reward from this party is for abject and complete failure and the those that need to be chastised are those who succeed in buisness and life..Go figure..bring us together …I think not

Romulan   April 13th, 2008 - 4:09 pm

I guess his brother Billy wasn’t the only villiage idiot

Dave's world   April 13th, 2008 - 4:12 pm

Anti Semitic, anti American , worst president ever. Now the worst ex-president ever. Carter really is polishing up the old resume.

carljr   April 13th, 2008 - 6:47 pm

Carter, unelected and non-appointed, chooses to meet with terrorist groups. Aren’t there other US citizens in jail for such stuff?

Anyway… that man has a terrible presidential history of dealing in matters of state. What makes him think he is better at now that he is a senile citizen?

Wowee   April 13th, 2008 - 9:30 pm

Jimah maybe find out when the terrorist that your meeting with want to wipe Isreal the democracy, off the map or when they plan to push them into the Med. Then you can go tell the Israelis so they can prepare. Hamas main goal is to destoy Isreal not negotiate for peace. I guess he should wait for obama so they can do their hangin with middle eastern terrorist tour together. I can see them now in the plane singin along with the rolling stones song “Sympathy for the devil”

someguy   April 13th, 2008 - 10:57 pm

Continuing his career defending the despicable, he now defends meeting with HAMAS in Gaza and Maoists in Nepal. What a disgrace.

MaoCheDem   April 14th, 2008 - 12:42 am

Carter, like Bill Clinton, desperately wants a valuable and respected legacy. Deep down, they both know that they were either very historically unhelpful, or of little consequence.

Carter and Clinton both lack wisdom and judgement.

Obama is the perfect mixture of the two. The judgement of Carter and the public persona of Clinton. Hence, the dems have found their perfect identity based candidate.

Mick   April 14th, 2008 - 2:22 am

What a jerk! I remember watching the Iran hostage mess he was responsible for back when I was in high school. This moron hasn’t learned a thing from his past stupid mistakes. With any luck at all, someone from Hamas will kill him and rid us of his stupidity!

Texan   April 14th, 2008 - 4:56 am

President Carter, keep what little dignity you have left and go back to building houses the poor people your party keeps poor.

Craig   April 14th, 2008 - 8:21 am

Lets continue to keep our head buried in the sand and keep tossing bombs.

Jill   April 14th, 2008 - 9:25 am

Remember: Obama is Carter II.

Mona   April 14th, 2008 - 6:01 pm

Nazi Israel: Jewish UN Envoy

Falk believes that up to now Israel had been successful in avoiding the criticism that it was due.

LONDON — The incoming UN human rights investigator in the occupied Palestinian territories insisted on Tuesday, April, 8 that Israeli atrocities against Palestinians were similar to those of Nazi Germany.
“If this kind of situation had existed for instance in the manner in which China was dealing with Tibet or the Sudanese government was dealing with Darfur, I think there would be no reluctance to make that comparison,” Richard Falk told the BBC News.

Falk, a world-renowned Jewish-American professor of international law at the prestigious Princeton University, first made the comparison last June.

“Is it an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with this criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity? I think not,” he wrote in an essay titled “Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust”.

“It is especially painful for me, as an American Jew, to feel compelled to portray the ongoing and intensifying abuse of the Palestinian people by Israel through a reliance on such an inflammatory metaphor as ‘holocaust.’”

He said the comparison which could sound provocative to some was meant to shake the American public from its torpor over Israel’s collective punishment of the 1.6 Gaza strip population.

Falk, appointed in March by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for a six-year tenure as the special rapporteur on human rights for the Palestinian territories, will take over from outgoing John Dugard next June.

Infuriated, Israel said Tuesday it won’t grant him a visa to enter Israel, Gaza or the West Bank.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said it intends to protest with the UN Human Rights Council choosing Falk for the post.

Holocaust

The prominent Jewish-American professor believes Israel has for long been able to dodge having its policies held up to international law and morality.

He attributed Israel’s shield from international criticism to a particular historical sensitivity of the Jewish people.

In his writings, Falk has repeatedly warned that the Israeli pattern of conduct in Gaza was “a holocaust-in-the-making.”

Deputy Israeli Defense Minister Matan Vilnai threatened on Friday, February 29, to turn the Gaza Strip into a “bigger holocaust” for the Palestinians.

Shortly afterwards Israel unleashed an air and ground blitz against the sealed off coastal strip that claimed the lives of more than 129 people, including more than 40 children, toddlers and newborn babies, as well as 13 women.

Falk is not the first international figure to liken the Israeli aggressions against Palestinians to the Nazis’.

Last August, a 27-strong group of German bishops visiting occupied al-Quds compared the discriminatory treatment helpless Palestinians suffer under Israel’s stifling checkpoints and occupation to infamous Nazi tactics.

Appalled by incessant crimes against innocent Palestinians, Israeli academics also drew a parallel between them and the Nazi holocaust against Jews.

Dugard, the outgoing special rapporteur on human rights, has branded Israeli actions in the occupied Palestinian territories as apartheid.

Ari   April 14th, 2008 - 6:20 pm

Hamas is dedicated to freedom; that is good right? Please see below….

Israelis Enjoy Torturing Palestinians

Egypt Press…

Grossman said the study shows a pattern practiced by hundreds and thousands.

CAIRO — Israeli soldiers enjoy torturing Palestinians, both men and women, and many of them use it to discharge energy, according to a recent study by an Israeli psychologist.
“At one point or another of their service, the majority of the interviewees enjoyed violence,” Nufar Yishai-Karin, a clinical psychologist at the Hebrew University, told The Observer on Sunday, October 21.

Interviewing 18 Israeli soldiers and three officers, Yishai-Karin heard confessions of brutal assaults troops routinely commit against Palestinians.

All of the interviewees were among those serving with her at an army base in Rafah in the Gaza Strip.

After finishing service, Yishai-Karin spent seven years investigating soldiers’ abuse of Palestinians during the first intifada in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Some of the interviews soldiers revealed how they enjoyed the intoxication of power when they abuse helpless Palestinians.

“It’s like a drug,” one solider told her.

“If I don’t go into Rafah and if there isn’t some kind of riot once in some week, I go nuts.”

God

For some of the Israeli soldiers, bashing the Palestinians made them feel important.

“You feel that you are the law. You are the law. You are the one who decides,” another soldier said.

“As though from the moment you leave the place that is called Eretz Yisrael [Israel] and go through the Erez checkpoint into the Gaza Strip, you are the law. You are God.”

With such pleasure in power, soldiers said, nothing was prohibited.

One soldier described an incident when a Palestinian passer-by was shot for no fault of his.

“We were in a weapons carrier when this guy, around 25, passed by in the street and, just like that, for no reason – he didn’t throw a stone, did nothing – bang, a bullet in the stomach, he shot him in the stomach and the guy is dying on the pavement and we keep going, apathetic,” he recalled.

“No one gave him a second look.”

A fourth soldier revealed how he had “no problem” abusing Palestinian women in particular, recalling when he brutally beat one woman for throwing a clog on him.

“I kicked her here [pointing to the crotch], I broke everything there. She can’t have children.”

Another woman’s fault was to spat at him.

“I gave her the rifle butt in the face. She doesn’t have what to spit with any more.”

Georgia   April 15th, 2008 - 12:54 am

Hey Tex, I’m sure Jimmy has plenty of dignity & common sense & could spare some to Billy who has none, poor thing.The latest, I heard he said he could see God in the Popes eyes. WOW. I thought that no one could see God while alive.How arrogant. Or stupid.But keep on supporting him. Good job.

Alex   April 15th, 2008 - 1:46 am

I’m no expert on Middle East affaris, but I am a proud American and want peace for all people in the Holy Land regardless of what religion they are or if they were born on the wrong side of some line. That said:

World to Israel’s radical right and Americans: the Apartheid State of Israel is a symbol of EVIL according to IHT and BBC which list Israel as the least liked country on the planet.

Shame on anyone degrading Carter as you are only subsituting one form of bigotry with another.

Besides most Jews are NOT semites; thus any white or non-semite Jew (or gentile) who hurls insults at Arabs IS an anti-semite!

Time to wake up and stop Israeli Apartheid.

notacarterfan   April 15th, 2008 - 12:28 pm

What a pathetic man Carter is. The only reason he won the Nobel Peace Prize is because the people making the nominations are all leftwing idiots; it was more of a thumb in the eye to a sitting president than for anything that Carter ever accomplished. Here we have an ex-president of the United States cozying up to Islamic terrorists–our sworn enemies; old Jimmy never met a communist dictator or socialist thug he didn’t like. He was and will always be the worst president we ever had. He is a disgrace to this country and should be indicted for sedition and treason. I know that will never happen, so I hope the senile old gasbag kicks off soon. It would be poetic justice if one of the terrorists did that for us.

Arthur   April 15th, 2008 - 3:46 pm

Well, at last Jimmy got it right. He said “I think that it’s very important that at least someone meet with the Hamas…” and he’s certainly the “least” someone I know. Least informed, least articulate, least honest and least honorable. As the wise one said of another fool: “May the fleas of a thousand camels infest his netherparts…”

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