Carter’s failure: Even the media recognizes it

Even as Jimmy Carter makes speeches about what Hamas agreed to during his talks with them, they deny that they will abide by what they said. Even the AP is printing the contradictions in the same story that they headline one of the biggest lies I’ve ever heard:

Carter: Hamas is willing to accept Israel as its neighbor
Former US President Jimmy Carter on Monday said Hamas is prepared to accept the right of Israel to “live as a neighbor next door in peace.” His comments came after he met last week with the top Hamas leaders in Syria.

Carter also said Hamas won’t undermine Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ efforts to reach a peace deal with Israel. He said Hamas is ready to accept a Palestinian state the West Bank and Gaza.

And the yuks just keep on coming.

“They said they would accept a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders if approved by Palestinians … Even though Hamas might disagree with some terms of the agreement,” Carter said.

“It means that Hamas will not undermine Abbas’s efforts to negotiate an agreement and Hamas will accept an agreement if the Palestinians support it in a free vote,” he said.

However, Hamas said Monday it won’t necessarily accept the results of any Palestinian referendum on peace with Israel.

Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman said Carter’s comments ”do not mean that Hamas is going to accept the result of the referendum.”

You just have to love it. The AP denies the agreement that Carter says he reached, even as Carter is announcing the supposed agreement. But wait. there’s more. It’s time for Jimmy to blame Israel for not reaching an agreement with a terrorist group that has worked for her destruction for decades.

“The problem is not that I met with Hamas in Syria,” he said. “The problem is that Israel and the United States refuse to meet with someone who must be involved.”

“There’s no doubt that both the Arab world and Hamas will accept Israel’s right to exist in peace within 1967 borders,” he said, referring to Israel’s frontiers before it captured large swaths of Arab lands in the 1967 Mideast war.

Hm. Let’s stop and remember what else Jimmy had no doubts about. He had no doubts that the Russians would not invade Afghanistan. He had no doubts that the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good ruler and usher in an era of democracy for Iran. He had no doubts that North Korea would stop production on nuclear weapons and would not get the bomb.

Well. That just gives me so much confidence in what he says about Israel and the Arab world, how about you? Oh, and speaking of the Arab world—does that mean he’s deliberately excluding Persian Iran?

And last, but not least: Hamas refused to release Gilad Shalit (big shock there), but says they’ll send another letter to his parents. Don’t hold your breath.

Meantime, Israeli authorities are stating the obvious: Carter’s effort was a waste of time and energy, because he has no authority over Hamas, and now that he’s conferred legitimacy on them, nothing else that they want.

Israel Radio reported that other government officials believe Carter is not able to follow through with what he has promised, both because he doesn’t have the tools to do so, and because the key to the solution is in Damascus-based Hamas chief Khalid Mashaal’s hands.

And Carter did not feel it necessary to speak to any Israeli officials before speechifying about his deal with Hama:

The government hasn’t received an update about former US president Jimmy Carter’s activities in Damascus, said Ofer Dekel, the official charged by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with dealing with the kidnapped soldiers’ issue, on Monday.

Way to go, Old Man and the Ego. Because when all is said and done, it’s not about Israel. It’s about YOU.

Really, that’s what irritates me the most about the man. His insufferable hubris, thinking that he will succeed where generations of people have failed, as well as his oversized ego—he is Jimmy Carter, therefore, he doesn’t have to abide by rules given to lesser mortals. Well, that, and his contempt for Israel (and Jews), which gets more and more blatant as he gets older.