Posted on 04/17/2008 11:43:48 PM PDT by Nachum
(IsraelNN.com) Former US President Jimmy Carter says Palestinian Authority Arabs living in Gaza are being “starved to death” by Israel.
Carter made the claim speaking with students at the American University in Cairo on Thursday, saying that Gaza Arabs are receiving fewer calories per day than people in the poorest regions of Africa.
“It’s an atrocity, what is being perpetrated as punishment on the people in Gaza,” said Carter. “It is a crime… I think it is an abomination that this continues to go on.”
The former president has not actually visited Gaza; Israel declined to authorize his use of the Israel-Gaza crossings and there were no indications he requested an entry from Egypt.
Carter neglected to mention that the region’s crossings with the rest of Israel have been closed since the Islamist Hamas terrorist organization seized total control of the area and began launching constant attacks on Israeli civilians. He also didn’t mention that the crossings are opened daily for the delivery of humanitarian aid, including truckloads of food, medical and other supplies into Gaza.
On Thursday, while Carter was denigrating Israeli treatment of Gaza residents, Hamas terrorists infiltrated through the Kerem Shalom Crossing and attacked an IDF post while trucks were passing through the crossing with essentials for Gaza.
The terrorists attacked the same area in which IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit was kidnapped in June 2006. Two soldiers were murdered and another soldier was seriously injured during that attack as well. Shalit’s condition and whereabouts are unknown; his parents have been hoping that Carter will be able to find out information about their son, if not convince his Hamas captors to free him altogether.
Despite the opposition of the American government, Carter was to meet Friday in Damascus with Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal, who is the apparent power behind Shalit’s kidnappers.
Carter met Thursday in Cairo with two senior Hamas officials from Gaza, Mahmoud al-Zahar and Said Seyam. The Israeli government refused to allow the former US president to meet in Gaza with the Hamas terrorists.
jimmah al-carter is clearly a willing propaganda tool for the palestinian terrorists
He is their favorite “useful infidel”..
It is shocking what our government allows this terrorist sympathizer and Jew hater to get away with.
Carter is a knowing liar with regard to what is taking place regarding the Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Egypt and Israel.
He is meeting with the leaders if Hamas and Syria. He is giving terrorists stature, while the U.S. policy is to build up respect for more moderate Arabs. Anotherwords, Carter is working in a manner diametrically opposed to U.S. foreign policy. And that qualifies him for prosecution for trying to conduct foreign policy on the behalf of the United States.
He should land in prison for what he is doing.
Maybe something better will happen to him. Prison’s too good.
it’s absolutely amazing that jimmah al-carter can run around playing super-ambassador with impunity.
> (IsraelNN.com) Former US President Jimmy Carter says Palestinian Authority Arabs living in Gaza are being “starved to death” by Israel.
This buffoon is a risible embarrassment and I marvel that you Yanks tolerate him for one moment.
Can’t somebody organize a simple kidnapping or something? Disappear him somewhere back to America, where you can put him on trial for treason? I’m sure the Israelis could organize that if the CIA has forgotten how.
Or give him back to the Iranians — they’re birds-of-a-feather and they should flock together. Like they did for 444 days so many years ago.
I don’t often criticize your President: he generally has done a fine job. But this trip should never have been permitted, and if Carter gets away with it unpunished, it will be a blight on GWB’s final days in office. That would indeed be a shame.
There remains nothing left to do but to arrest him upon his return and file charges. The damage will have been done, but in all not the worst of outcomes.
Logan Act?
Here’s a headline for Mr. Carter from 1979: Jimmy Carter kills economy, straves Americans.
Jimmah is a tool for communists as well. It's disgusting how he kissed Castro's @$$ after Castro played him for a fool with the Mariel boatlift.
Cartuh is the biggest jack@$$ in the long history of democrat jack@$$e$.
Perhaps Carter would be copacetic if Israel supplied Gaza with greenhouses so the Pali's could grow their own groceries? Well, they did when abandoning Gaza.
Who says he is an infidel?
I’ve not seen any evidence of him heaving his buttocks Heavenward five times a day..
The day he dies I’ll dance in the street.
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