Jimmy Carter took to the talk show circuit to try to defend meeting with murderers.
“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,” Carter said in an exclusive interview with George Stephanopoulos on “This Week.”
“There’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that, if Israel is ever going to find peace with justice concerning the relationship with their next-door neighbors, the Palestinians, that Hamas will have to be included in the process,” Carter added. “I think someone should be meeting with Hamas to see what we can do to encourage them to be cooperative and to find out what their attitude.”
Hm. Wonder if this will help find out their attitude:
“Hamas will not back down. We will not give up on a single metre of our homeland,†Meshaal said to thunderous applause.
“We will and we must continue in the path of resistance,†he added.
Or this:
In an anniversary message to Hamas TV, the group’s top leader in exile, Khaled Mashaal, said Hamas will not abandon violence. “This is our real choice, our trump card, which causes the enemy to succumb to us,†he said.
He said moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who controls the West Bank, does not have the mandate to negotiate with Israel. “Our people are able to launch a third and fourth uprising until the dawn of victory arrives,†he warned.
Or perhaps this part of the Hamas charter:
Article Six:
The Islamic Resistance Movement is a distinguished Palestinian movement, whose allegiance is to Allah, and whose way of life is Islam. It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine […].
In the meantime, Carter is perfectly okay with the policies of countries like China. He’s against a boycott, apparently because China hasn’t killed enough people yet. And it was a popular cause, too.
“That was a totally different experience in 1980, when the Soviet Union had brutally invaded and killed thousands and thousands of people, who — in Afghanistan then,” he said. “They were threatening to go further south and take over other countries. Fifty-four nations in the world decided to boycott the Olympics. Two-thirds of the U.S. Olympic Committee, a relatively independent group, decided not to go. The Congress voted overwhelmingly not to go.”
Jimmy Carter—ever the hero. He’s going to be the subject of my podcast this week. I had the feeling if I only waited until Sunday to write it, he’d say even more stupid things.
Let’s hope that Khalid Meshaal puts up Carter in the Terry Anderson suite.
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(IIRC, AP reporter Terry Anderson was imprisoned by Arab terrorists for six years. He was moved back and forth between Lebanon and Syria.)
But,Meryl,he said he wouldn’t be representing the US gov’t-just in case anyone thought someone who’s been out of office for 28 years,a failure while in ofice,a critic to US policies while overseas,a whore for big ticket donors and someone who lends the presige of his former office to terrorists by meeting them-so what’s the problem?
When I see/hear Jimmuh doding things like this,I tryt to imagine how bad Bill Clinton can become.It helps me cope
I think Hamas would do better to ask for money to KEEP him over there…
I’d gladly pay.
All joking aside:
I want to add that Carter has done good in the world. He has done more charity and lent his name to more good programs than the rest of the current crop of presidents combined, and I admire him for that. HE could sit back, write books, and relax. But he keeps on doing his “thing”. It just seems that he’s “to good”. He refuses to see and operate in reality.
I TRULY hope that Carter is protected during his trip. While we may joke about his antics it would be one hell of moral booster for Hamas if terrorists actually managed to get their hands on a former president.
And as much as I dislike his bleeding heart politics I would support bombing the hell out of any country that allowed him to be kidnapped or worse…
I would hope Hamas would realize what would happen if they did something so stupid, but quite honestly it seems they are attracted to “stupid ideas” as of late.
Long rifle,
Certainly Carter has done good.But there’s no checking account of good vs bad which allows credit for massively stupid deeds with evil people.BY your reasoning Cater is a “better ” person than Churchill.And,there’s a story on LGF to the effect these meetings are ongoing.I’m not a Jew,even a non observant one,so I don’t think I can be accused of oversensitivity.And my support of Israel is on shared values and admiration-not on being a Christian.But CArter seems to blame the victim again and again.And,I don’t like to think it’s possible an American president could be anti Semitic,but I wouldn’t bet the farm in this case.Overall,I find total of his activities to be a net evil
“I want to add that Carter has done good in the world.”
Carter is a fanatic, dyed-in-the-wool antisemite who hates Jew with a passion. I have seen him myself spewing antisemitic venom in an unguarded moment during an interview with Bill Moyers. He also once called for a “final solution” to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and there can be no doubt he perfectly understood the implications of that awful phrase.
I would say Carter can go to hell, if it weren’t for the fact that he has alredy been there for decades.
OK, he’s done many fine things. No doubt about that. Meanwhile, every Yom Kippur I beg forgiveness for my sins of not only voting for him twice but in 1980 doing a bit of work for him in the Missouri caucus.
My wife has pointed out that I may have insulted victims of Alzheimer’s or senile dementia by a previous comment that suggested that Dhimmi might be acting in this way because of a mental disorder. When someone is suffering the ills of old age, the true personality will burst forth. A tzaddik will speak of holy matters, even if he is no longer capable of maintaining his learning, a man like Carter will …
Neville Chamberlain didn’t have himself as an example. Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, and for liberals like Carter, history began yesterday.
For those that are suffering from BDS and believe the Leftstream propoganda against he war on terror, remember, Iran has two major borders: Iran to the west, Afghanistan to the east, not to mention the Persian Gulf to the south. I wonder why the Iranians are so concerned with fostering “insurgency” in those two countries? If Chamberlain hadn’t kowtowed to Hitler in the 30’s, there’s always a chance that there wouldn’t have been a Holocaust – we’ll never know. There’s a chance for Middle East peace in the 21st Century, to end the threat to not only Israel, but to the civilized world by Islam, but if liberals get their way, we’ll never know that either…
Robert