Carter denounces Israel’s new plan to redraw border
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Former president Jimmy Carter has denounced plans by Israel’s new prime minister to unilaterally establish the geographical boundaries of the Jewish state, saying that such a move would be in violation of international accords.
“It is inconceivable that any Palestinian, Arab leader, or any objective member of the international community would accept this illegal action as a permanent solution to the continuing altercation in the Middle East,” Carter said in a commentary published Tuesday in USA Today.
He said Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s plan, which would involve Israel ceding some ground but taking about one half of the Palestinian West Bank and encapsulating the urban areas within a concrete wall and fence barrier, was a recipe for disaster.
“This confiscation of land is to be carried out without resorting to peace talks with the Palestinians, and in direct contravention of the ‘road map for peace’, which President (George W.) Bush helped initiate and has strongly supported,” said Carter, the architect of the 1978 Camp David peace accords between Egypt and Israel.
He added that Olmert’s plan would be in clear violation of the Camp David treaty as well as the 1993 Oslo accords and UN Security Council resolutions.
Carter said a better course would be for Israel to launch peace talks with Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority, under the auspices of the international Quartet, made up of the United States, the European Union, United Nations and Russia.
“A mutual Israeli-Palestinian agreement would undoubtedly result in full recognition of Israel by all Arab nations, with normal diplomatic and economic relations, and permanent peace and justice for the Palestinians,” Carter, who now heads the non-profit Carter Center, said.
“It would also remove one of the major causes of international terrorism and greatly ease tensions that could precipitate a regional or even global conflict.”
Wild Thing’s comment……
Memo to Jimmy: STFU you pathetic snivelling weasel!! The documents and past negotiations you cite are “no longer operative” since the Palis have violated them at every turn and have now elected the most openly terrorist leadership yet. Israel can do anything it deems necessary to its security and the Palis and their terror masters can just stuff it. Jimmy, how DARE you cite the “road map” and Oslo as somehow binding on Israel when the Palis have violated both the spirit and the details of every such effort to achieve peace?
I have an idea for peace: let’s watch Israel define its own borders (preferably as expansively as possible), seal them as completely as possible, and declare that ‘negotiations’ are no longer possible due to the failure of the Pali terrorists to observe the most elemental norms of human civilization.
Chrissie
Once again you have said what is true and what Carter and his ilk fail to take note of. The thing they would really love to see is that the tiny couragous country of Israel ceased to exist. Thats there obscene remedy.Go get um Chrissie
Agreed Chrissie. Expand and seal the borders, dont’ split anything with them.
He needs to go back to building houses for welfare people. This clown was ignored for two decades, even by Democrats and now he’s trying to make a legacy for himself.
As a people the Palestinians are worthless. They’ve contributed nothing to the world except pain and misery. Even the other Arab nations don’t want them as they are nothing but leaches which feed off the lifeblood of others. The generate no income and no economic growth. The depend on other nations for money so they can pay salaries and feed their people. They produce nothing, not even their own food.
If the Jews were to just pack up and leave, giving Israel to the Palestinians, in less than 6 months every city would be a disease infested rat hole.
Hi Jack thank you, this stuff really tricks me off.
razOr thanks, I really hate giving in to the enemy in any way.
Bob you are so right!!!! Well said Bob!
Jimmy Carter is a true mental case, also defined as liberal. If he had been reelected he would have given away the Statue of Liberty, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Liberty Bell. I say, give Panama Jimmy Carter and take our Canal back!
Israel will eventually have to retake land it has negotiated away, again. No big deal. The IDF can whip arab ass anytime they decide to.
Arrrggh!!! Carter and UNRWA both are feeding the hatred of Israel, and Carter is portraying himself as a Christian no less. I’m Impressed that the Communists allow Carter in their club, what’s that? A useful idiot!! Must be the answer. Maybe that’s why the U.S. average annual contribution to UNRWA’s General Fund has been $86.45 million, UNRWA exists solely to create phoney jobs and provide welfare for the Palestinians. It’s long past time to cut Carter’s citizenship and ban him from re-entry, he’s more Cuban than American anyway, and what are we doing subsidizing terror through UNRWA?
What’s that expression about, as a man ages, he gets the face he deserves? Carter looks more and more like something that oozed out of a mushroom farm on its way to a mud puddle.
Carter’s life has been one long, uninterrupted drama of self-aggrandizement, combined with the medical necessity to drain the venom from his soul on a daily basis.
The man’s also a liar, one of his most notable lies being his claim that he was a nuclear physicist while he only took one, no-credit course in Physics in college. He’s a racist, a self-admitted satyr, and in my opinion, a disturbed masochist. The last is the only explanation for his need to bikini-wax every dictator he can find on planet Earth.
As bad as he is, he managed to find others even more stupid and craven than himself to do his bidding, like Brzezinksi…the man who opened the floodgates of Islamic fascism and even today claims that it doesn’t exist. Brzezinksi’s policies were described by Ayatollah Khomeini as “a chicken running around without his head”.
If only Carter had been mistaken for Daniel Perl.
….uhh, I guess the remark was “a chicken running around with ITS head”. Chickens are girls, and on close inspection, we might also find that Carter lacks certain machinery too. Hugo Chavez probably knows. I’ll ask him.
Tom he sure would have given all that stuff away given half a chance on a re-election. You’re right about the IDF they do kick ass and I can just imagine what they have in store for Iran. yeowie
I agree Jack, he could go retire in a cave and hang out with Osama. Then when we bomb the said cave (hypothetically of course as they say on TV) bye bye Carter. heh heh
“oozed out of a mushroom farm on its way to a mud puddle.”
LMAO oh my gawd how perfect is that!
Oh man……. your whole post… both of them actually have me laughing so hard here. (eyes are watering) rotflmao
Just wait till Al Gore gets really old…I think he will even outdo Jimmy. I only mention that because it just seems like every time some creep dies there is always another to take his place. Then again who was the creep before Carter???
Serrahome:
There were lots of them. George McGovern comes to mind, who had some respectable qualities. At least more than Carter.
Rhod…THAT’s RIGHT…I was thinking “who was that asshat”. Carter is just sickining but I think Gore is going to far out do even Jimmah
Sierrahome:
You’re on target with Gore. I think he’s insane, but unless he completely deteriorates and ends pushing marbles with his nose around a hospital sidewalk, he’ll be in the public eye.
He’s clever enough to be building a support network among the gullible and stupid-by-varying-degrees young, so that he’ll always have an audience the way Tiny Tim had an audience. You can’t believe what you’re seeing; it’s grotesque and embarrassing, but you’re unlikely to ever see anything like it again.
He has the logistical and
“pushing marbles with his nose around a hospital sidewalk”…I’d pay REAL money to see that.
Sierrahome rotfl