[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

"The prime source of animosity towards the United States is the lack of progress in dealing with the Palestinian issue,"

You've said that before, Jimmy, just a part of your final solution

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Jimmy Carter, on Israel and the Jews

1979: "I have never met an Arab leader that in private professed a desire for an independent Palestinian state. Publicly, they all espouse an independent Palestinian state -- almost all of them -- because that is what they committed themselves to do at Rabat (the 1974 Arab League summit conference)."
--President Jimmy Carter
a 1979 press conference

Early 1980: …at a March 1980 meeting with his senior political advisers, angrily snapped, "If I get back in, I`m going to f--- the Jews."
Jimmy Carter, March 1980

Late 1980: Cyrus Vance…confirmed to then-New York mayor Ed Koch that Carter, if reelected, would "sell out" the Jews
Jimmy Carter shortly before the 1980 election

2003: …had I been elected to a second term, with the prestige and authority and influence and reputation I had in the region, we could have moved to a final solution
Jimmy Carter, 12-1-2003

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"We take the world like you find it; and Israel is a small state with a small population. It's a democracy and it exists in a neighborhood that in many - over a period of time has opined from time to time that they'd prefer it not be there and they'd like it to be put in the sea. And Israel has opined that it would prefer not to get put in the sea, and as a result, over a period of decades, it has arranged itself so it hasn't been put in the sea."

Donald Rumsfeld

[adam_az]

Rumsfeld sure has a way with words.

I have immense respect for the man.

I hope he is SecDef for another 5 years.

[dennisw]

How about that mofunker on Israel? Damn rotter!

[Howlin]

…had I been elected to a second term, with the prestige and authority and influence and reputation I had in the region

ROFLMAO. What a dweeb.

[mrustow]

The prime source of animosity towards the United States is the lack of progress in dealing with the Palestinian issue, Buchanan said, adding that past U.S. administrations since Harry Truman's have maintained a "balanced position" in dealing with the rights of the Arab population within the Jewish nation.

I slightly edited a passage -- strange bedfellows, and all that.