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Carter knows what is happening


in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  Msm sure doesn't get it.  A horrible humanitarian crisis is evolving caused by the West's refusal to accept a democratically elected government.

Carter said Hamas, besides winning a fair and democratic mandate that should have entitled it to lead the Palestinian government, had proven itself to be far more organized in its political and military showdowns with Abbas' moderate Fatah movement.

Hamas fighters routed Fatah in their violent takeover of the Gaza Strip last week. The split prompted Abbas to dissolve the power-sharing government with his rivals in Hamas and set up a Fatah-led administration to govern the West Bank.

Carter said the consensus of the U.S., Israel and the EU to start funneling aid to Abbas' new government in the West Bank but continue blocking Hamas in the Gaza Strip represented an "effort to divide Palestinians into two peoples."

"All efforts of the international community should be to reconcile the two, but there's no effort from the outside to bring the two together," he said. 

Carter goes on:

Far from encouraging Hamas' move into parliamentary politics, Carter said the U.S. and Israel, with European Union acquiescence, sought to subvert the outcome by shunning Hamas and helping Abbas to keep the reins of political and military power.

"That action was criminal," he said in a news conference after his speech.

 Here is the whole story.

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This entry was written by John and posted on June 20, 2007 at 10:57 pm and filed under Israel, Palestine. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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  1. I can appreciate President Carter’s viewpoint, but Hamas will not seek peace with Israel and will not work with the non-religious polical people in Palestine.

    How would you work out a similar problem if it occured in the United State? Radical religious people all have many of the same characteristics…

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    1. Above comment written by Pat CampbellNo Gravatar on June 21st, 2007 at 7:30 pm (replies, if any, are attributed separately above).

  2. Many consider the Israeli government to be a radical religious group that will not work with other groups and that will not work towards peace with Palestine. Your viewpoint and how much of the mainstream media reporting you accept as accurate determines how you see this conflict.

    Taking sides and withdrawing aid to a democratically elected government only serves to make a troubling situation worse. Then to dump aid to one side and withhold it from the other again just makes the situation worse. The aid should not have been withdrawn and now it should be reinstated by trying to help both sides on a humanitarian basis only.

    To use your hypothetical, if the Democrats held impeachment proceedings and removed Bush and Cheney and then installed Pelosi as President, would you be OK with Russia, France and Great Britain providing financial support to enable Bush and Cheney to continue to rule?

    The situation is complicated. The Western and Israeli governments are using their financial clout to favor “their guy” with little apparent regard to the consequences that causes to the people of Palestine.

    What is glaringly missing here is diplomacy. Remember that? We used to practice it before “endless war”. Seems like such a distant memory.

    Who can we kill or help others to kill next? That’s what American diplomacy has become.

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    2. Above comment written by bushtoolNo Gravatar on June 21st, 2007 at 7:55 pm (replies, if any, are attributed separately above).

  3. There is one solution to ending all this war, terror, etc. Our President should sit down with the Russian President and suggest that together, both countries draw up a list of Muslim religious sites, along with the most important cities of the Muslim world, each on a separate list, and numbered.

    The both countries, together, present to the Arab league the list. Explain to them that they, the Muslim countries, have 60 days to stop the terrorist activities, because after 60 days, one terrorist activity happens, numbers will be drawn, and what ever number is drawn, that city and religious site will cease to exist.

    It will, I’m sure, take one set of numbers to set the example, and then the Muslim countries will understand this BS is over.

    Israel should be made to with draw to the borders it was given during the UN mandate in 1948, or all aid to Israel will be cut off.

    If this happened, there would be peace in the mid east again. Cruel, harsh, yes it is, but it’s better than what is happening today.

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    3. Above comment written by AllenNo Gravatar on June 22nd, 2007 at 8:04 am (replies, if any, are attributed separately above).

  4. Some actual reporting of the Hamas side by the mainstream media. I am in shock.

    Hamas scores publicity coup in U.S.

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    4. Above comment written by bushtoolNo Gravatar on June 22nd, 2007 at 1:43 pm (replies, if any, are attributed separately above).
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