Jimmy Carter supports Hamas?
Posted by Moonage on 21 Feb 2006 | Tagged as: International Politics
Here’s one headline:
Carter Says Hamas Will Be €śPeaceful€ť, Advocates Giving Money to UN (VIDEO)
In a released statement, Carter elaborates further:
"During this time of fluidity in the formation of the new government, it is important that Israel and the United States play positive roles," Carter wrote in a piece in Monday’s edition of The Washington Post.
"Any tacit or formal collusion between the two powers to disrupt the process by punishing the Palestinian people could be counterproductive and have devastating consequences."
Here’s another:
Hamas drops call for destruction of Israel from manifesto
Lookin good? Not quite so fast:
"Hamas is talking about the end of the occupation as the basis for a state, but at the same time Hamas is still not ready to recognise the right of Israel to exist," he said. "We cannot give up the right of the armed struggle because our territory is occupied in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. That is the territory we are fighting to liberate."
Now, what exactly is Carter’s evidence Hamas is a good thing? What exactly makes him think that if the US and Israel play good guys Hamas end their only purpose of an autonomous state where Israel used to be? Why exactly is anyone still listening to him?
- Technorati Jimmy Carter, Hamas
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on 17 Jul 2007 at 2:23 pm 1.Moonage Political Webdream
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