Carter is a Statesman.

Give him a chance.

Published on April 18, 2008 By adnauseam In Current Events

If George Bush, Condoleeza Rice and Tony Blair--and many others before them--cannot solve the Palestinian problem, why criticize Jimmy Carter for trying to do something about it by meeting Hamas.

I doubt Carter will make significant headway but the US government feels he should not be talking to the "bad boys". How do you make any progress if you don't talk to the enemy? How do you justify criticism when your own policy on Palestine is ineffective and goes no further than "peace-speak'" but not "action-speak".

Give Carter a chance---He has done a darn sight more for the World than Rice or Blair!

Comments (Page 7)

ParaTed2k

on May 13, 2008

The fist mistake the US made was recognizing a terrorist slime like Arafat. Once Carter did that, terrorism became a successful means of bringing the US to the table. No US president should ever have given him that kind of respect.

You can't bow down to a turd without putting your face in the sewer.

Dr Guy

on May 13, 2008

Ahh yes, it's all up to the Palestinians to make the choice to live in peace and everything will be rosy. Thanks for clarifying! Meanwhile, the Israelis will continue to practice their form of "tough love" until the attitude change you spoke of comes to pass?

As I said before, if it was any other nation on the face of the earth, there would be no Palestinians, as no nation would tolerate that kind of agression against their citizens (and last for long). You may love them, and think they are poor and picked on. But Israel has long retaliated in very measured responses - instead of whole sale war.

You just proved it.

Adventure-Dude

on May 14, 2008

But Israel has long retaliated in very measured responses - instead of whole sale war.

Always interesting when you look at the order of events. Interestingly how even in the global world we still seem to punish the second one (who gets caught)?

Anyone know the ratio of UN sanctions against Israel vs surrounding countries?

ParaTed2k

on May 14, 2008

The latest Hamas rocket attacks on Israel shows how naive this statement is. How do you "negotiate" with people whose only demand is your extermination?

Adventure-Dude

on May 14, 2008

The latest Hamas rocket attacks on Israel shows how naive this statement is. How do you "negotiate" with people whose only demand is your extermination?

Yeah I noticed that too Ted but there is also a report that IDF killed 5 Palestinians and wounded 30 in searching for rocket launching sites. I'm keeping a close eye to see if they are related because this one happened first (at dawn). I will let you know what I find out.

ParaTed2k

on May 14, 2008

Dude: I'm not saying that Israel is innocent in all this, however, only one side is fighting out of the concept that the other has no right to exist at all.

Palestinians are nothing but todays Nazis, trying to exterminate the Jews. We shouldn't treat Palestinians any better than we would treat a Nazi thug.

Adventure-Dude

on May 14, 2008

Palestinians are nothing but todays Nazis, trying to exterminate the Jews. We shouldn't treat Palestinians any better than we would treat a Nazi thug.

Ted, I'm gonna respectfully disagree here. I don't see Palestinians being the problem here. It is Hamas. Their election resembled to the Soviet style elections. There is a fundamental difference between Palestinians and Hamas.

ParaTed2k

on May 14, 2008

Hamas today, the PLO yesterday, blah blah blah. The fact remains that the whole doctrine of Palistinian world view is that Israel has no right to exist and Israelis are to be exterminated.

They aren't a race or an ethnic group, they are a political entity made up of Arabs who have decide taking on the name Palistinians gains them some sort of historical relevance.

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