Iran Hostage Crisis, Tehran, 1977Ex-President Jimmy Carter organized a Tea Time with Terrorists when he met with Hamas officials last Tuesday at a reception in Ramallah. Carter also announced his intentions to meet with exiled Hamas political chief, Khaled Mashaal, in Damascus, Syria, on Friday. Carter met with Hamas at the West Bank, part of a series of planned meet-ups between the ex-president and Hamas officials in what he describes as discussions towards a "final peace agreement".
We decided to put together a short list of Carter's accomplishments as President: signing away the Panama Canal, signing a treaty with Soviet Russia shortly before they invaded Afghanistan, and the colossal inept bumbling of the Iran Hostage Crisis.
Ex- President Jimmy Carter lays a wreath at the tomb of Yasser Arafat, April 15, 2008Carter defended meeting with the terrorist group Hamas, stating that their involvement was necessary for a "final peace agreement":
"Since Syria and Hamas will have to be involved in the final peace agreement, they ought to be involved in the discussions leading up to... peace."
Carter also met with Nasser al-Shaer, a senior Hamas official at a reception, organized by the Carter 's office in Ramallah. According to USA Today, al-Shaer was greeted by Carter with a hug and kisses.
He gave me a hug. We hugged each other, and it was a warm reception," Shaer told the Associated Press. "Carter asked what he can do to achieve peace between the Palestinians and Israel ... and I told him the possibility for peace is high."
While Carter is meeting up with Hamas we thought it might be fun to take a little trip down memory lane in regards to Jimmy Carter's presidency to gain a clearer perspective on Carter's proclivity for "peace" at all costs.
We begin with September, 1977, with Carter signing away the Panama Canal.
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"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it."
--Hamas charter
Former president and current professional terrorist apologist, Jimmy Carter, once again demonstrates he needs to get on the phone to Vanna White and buy a clue.
Carter's answer to protests that he's meeting with militants from the terrorist group, Hamas, was positively beauty pageant-esque: "I'm quite at ease". Carter went on to say that Hamas was "essential" to any future peace with Israel.
Of course, Jimmy knows that the stated goal of Hamas is to destroy Israel. What kind of essential peace will Jimmy be able to achieve with a group whose charter states:
"There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors."
Carter, like a bad yeast infection, just won't go away. He spoke on ABC's This Week also said he would oppose a U.S. Olympic boycott and hopes all countries will join in the Beijing games--presumably after holding hands, singing songs and exchanging wet kisses.
Also at DBKP.com: "Carter, Hamas: Jimmy Needs to Make the Call".
At least Carter has some experience with Olympic boycotts. The U.S. boycott of the Olympics in 1980 was the only time Carter showed any spine. Like most of his other forays into the international arena, it was ineffective and only hurt U.S. athletes.
Several State Department officials, including the secretary, Condoleezza Rice, criticized Carter's plans to talk in Syria this week with exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in the first public contact in two years between a prominent American figure and the group. Carter said he had not heard the objections directly, although a State Department spokesman said earlier that a senior official from the department had called the former president.
"President Carter is a private citizen. We respect his views," Stephen Hadley, President Bush's national security adviser, said Sunday on ABC.
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Jimmy Carter had his chance at playing "International Politics Mystery Date". It came back during 1977-81. The USA's flirtation with the peanut-farmer-turned-Georgia governor resembled a bad one night stand: both suffered regrets and tried forgetting about the whole thing--and neither party respected the other in the morning.
If Jimmy Carter were not so smugly self-assured, he might listen to just one piece of advice before he leaves for his pow wow with Hamas.
It's not to late.
Jimmy, pick up the phone and make that call to Vanna.
by Mondoreb
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* Jimmy Carter Defends Meeting with Hamas
* Carter, Hamas: Jimmy Needs to Make the Call
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He Left with Love!
They Lived with Blood!
Bush: "...confront terrorism and incitement, whether committed by Palestinians or Israelis."
Chills!!!
They Came By Plane!
They Came by Boat!
They Came by Car [bomber]!
The Critics Rave!
"Bush has lost his mind and his moral compass.
"An outrage."
"A lie and a blood libel. Israel has never committed any acts of terrorism."
--Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugged
"No Lasting Peace"
--Ralph Peters, New York Post
"...[Q]uaaludes and orange juice"
--Lawyers, Guns and Money
Starring: George Bush Mahmoud Abbas and Ehud Olmert as "Santa Claus" With: Condelezza Rice, The Rockettes and a cast of 40! Screenplay by: Jimmy Carter and Yassir "That's my Baby" Arafat Catering: LG & M Filmed in Dhimmicolor Tickets at the box office and all Ticketron Outlets
by Mondoreb
Sources:
NY Times: Text of Bush's Speech
Atlas Shrugged: Bush: We Are All Terrorists Now
Lawyers, Guns and Money: If you're not with us...
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This just in: nature abhors a vaccuum. Film at 11.
No real news to write about? No problem.
If you're the creative type, you play a game of 'what if' and get someone to comment on it. The result: hot copy ready to serve up to readers.
That's a recipe used to put together the following story. Reporter A has to write about something, but instead starts day-dreaming. What if they put on a peace conference and something concrete came out of it. What if Israel would decide to withdraw from the West Bank? What if...well you get the story.
And so did Report A, who dug up a quote from a ranking Hamas official to comment on the scenario. There were no surpises: the Hamas leader said, in effect, "You leave, we move in". More of the usual in the Middle East from Yahoo News:A top Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip warned on Friday that the Islamist movement would seize control of the West Bank if Israel withdrew from the occupied territory.
Hamas wants land held by Israel? How can that be? The story continues
"Israel says the party in power in Ramallah (Fatah) serves its interests and if Israel withdraws from the West Bank, Hamas will take control. That's true," Mahmud Zahar told a party rally in Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip.
Little Green Footballs has this to say about the peace conference-party crashers from Hamas:
He called on Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party to "learn the lesson of what happened in Gaza" -- where nearly five months ago Hamas routed the moderate leader's loyalists and security officers in the coastal enclave.
Zahar also said an international meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that the United States is preparing to host later this month would fail.Here’s an alternative opinion from Hamas on the upcoming Annapolis “peace conference” between Israel and the Fatah party, at which Israeli PM Olmert seems determined to make serious concessions on the issue of withdrawing settlements in the West Bank: Hamas says it will seize West Bank if Israel withdraws.
This was a story that had to written--on a slow news day. As a slow news day in the Middle East usually means a day without a bomb blast and death, so that's not a bad thing.
This story could have just as easily been filed under "science" with the headline, "Nature Abhors a Vaccuum".
by Mondoreb
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