A human rights crime (Barf Alert - Jimmy Carter on poor, poor Hamas)

The Guardian ^ | 5/8/2008 | Jimmy (Dhimmi) Carter

[mojito]

The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world. An entire population is being brutally punished.

This gross mistreatment of the Palestinians in Gaza was escalated dramatically by Israel, with United States backing, after political candidates representing Hamas won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Authority parliament in 2006. The election was unanimously judged to be honest and fair by all international observers.

Israel and the US refused to accept the right of Palestinians to form a unity government with Hamas and Fatah and now, after internal strife, Hamas alone controls Gaza. Forty-one of the 43 victorious Hamas candidates who lived in the West Bank have been imprisoned by Israel, plus an additional 10 who assumed positions in the short-lived coalition cabinet.

Regardless of one's choice in the partisan struggle between Fatah and Hamas within occupied Palestine, we must remember that economic sanctions and restrictions on the supply of water, food, electricity and fuel are causing extreme hardship among the innocent people in Gaza, about one million of whom are refugees.

Israeli bombs and missiles periodically strike the area, causing high casualties among both militants and innocent women and children. Prior to the highly publicised killing of a woman and her four children last week, this pattern had been illustrated by a report from B'Tselem, the leading Israeli human rights organisation, which stated that 106 Palestinians were killed between February 27 and March 3. Fifty-four of them were civilians, and 25 were under 18 years of age.

[mojito]

This despicable idiot never met an enemy of his country that he didn't love. This article presents such an outrageous cherry-picking of events that even al-jazeera seems honest in comparison. On top of it, he doesn't seem to recognize, still, that Hamas rejected the so-called "agreement" that this fool thought he was negotiating.

[roaddog727]

Dear Jimmah....:

A majority of terrorists voted in by a pack of terrorist supporters does not a democracy make.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Sigh....what a tool.

[Sherman Logan]

A majority of terrorists voted in by a pack of terrorist supporters does not a democracy make.

Sure it does. Not a civilized government, to be sure, but exactly what the people want.

[Viking2002]

I refuse to read this thread on the grounds that I just ate some delicious chipotle wings, and I intend to keep them down. I can easily imagine the rhetorical offal that spilt out of that puckered rectal sluice on Jimmah's shoulders.

[Godwin1]

Here is an ex president who goes abroad to criticize his country in an America-hating left wing newspaper. And let us not forget; he is a Democrat super-delegate who will back Hussein Obama and have a prominent place at the Democrat Convention.
In the life-death struggle between Hamas and Israel, Carter favors Hamas. It's just that simple.

[Alouette]

imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world.

"No access to the outside world" except for CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, BBC, Reuters, AP, AFP...

[roaddog727]

“Sure it does. Not a civilized government, to be sure, but exactly what the people want.”

I suppose.......

[Old North State]

I don't know where Cater gets this notion that holding elections inoculates a regime from the consequences of its actions. If the Palestinians elect a bunch of murderous thugs who continue to assault Israel what are the Jews supposed to do? shrug it off? The Pali’s can choose their leaders but they cannot choose the consequences of their actions.

[deadrock]

I know it is not healthy, but I really hate this man.

[Darren McCarty]

worst....president...in...my....lifetime

[StarCMC]

what a tool.

You're WAAAAAY nicer than me.

[StarCMC]

worst....president...in...my....lifetime

I pray it remains that way.

[red state girl]

I don’t think I hate anyone as much as I do Carter. They need to lock him away somewhere.

[Convert from ECUSA]

There will be a great blessing given to the world when Dhimmi Jimmuh finally, finally, finally, finally, finally, kicks the bucket and gives up his prune pit soul into the next life, where he will hopefully sit in a very warm place having all the bleepy things he’s said about Israel and the Jewish people played over and over and over, while he looks at a sign on the pearly gates that says “sorry, Jimmuh, no vacancy.”

[reagan_fanatic]

How can one man be so breathtakingly ignorant?

[Kakaze]

Ahh more wisdom, from a man that certifies every dictatorial election in this world as fair, then claims the votes of Michigan & Florida are invalid.