Posted on 12/01/2003 11:56:56 AM PST by white trash redneck
Former US President Jimmy Carter unleashed a fierce attack against the Israeli and American governments in his speech at the Geneva Initiative's ceremony in Switzerland.
Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, blamed US President George W. Bush for anti-American sentiment and worldwide terror.
"Bush's inordinate support for Israel allows the Palestinians to suffer," Carter said. "This is a source of anti-American sentiment in the world and encourages terror."
Carter said Israel's settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the security fence are the main obstacles to peace. He called repeatedly for the return of Palestinian refugees to the territories, beyond what is called for in the Geneva Initiative.
"Settlements prevent the return of the refugees who led their homes after the 1948 and 1967 wars," Carter said. "No matter what leaders the Palestinians may choose, Israel must choose between peace and settlements."
Carter said the main flaw of the US-brokered road map is its step-by-step approach, which he said has allowed Israel to stop its advance by building "an enormous barrier wall" and with "the colonialization of Gaza."
"The people support a peace settlement, but political leaders are the obstacle to peace," Carter said.
Carter said that not a single word of the peace he negotiated between Israel and Egypt has been violated. He said that peace prevailed after the Oslo Accord was signed in 1993, but the peace was extinguished by suicide bombers and house demolitions.
The former president also called for the implementation of the Saudi Initiative, which called on the Arab world to recognize Israel in return for Israel accepting into its borders the flood of 4 million Palestinians who claim to be refugees.
Other speakers in the ceremony included Nobel laureates Lech Walesa of Poland and John Hume of Northern Ireland.
Palestinian General Zuheir Manasra defended both Palestinian uprisings as legitimate struggles for Palestinian independence.
"The Palestinian fight is a fight for peace," Manasra said.
Both Palestinian and Israeli speakers criticized the government of Israel. Neither criticized the Palestinian leadership.
Lord Michael Levy read a letter from British Prime Minister Tony Blair endorsing the initiative and calling for an Israeli and Palestinian return to the negotiating table.
"This initiative gives a chance to what might be achievable with goodwill on both sides," Blair wrote. "The debate stimulated by this initiative is important. A better understanding of the nature of a possible settlement can remind people why the difficult steps in the road map are worth taking."
Bush, a distinguished gentlemen of the highest honor for American security, ought to shove his shiny boot up Jimmy's prize.
Jimmy Carter.. take your white flag and go back to your peanut farm, you sucked at defending us against foreign enemies and you suck at being an American. What a disgrace. I hope his recent quote goes into children's history books for future generations to remember him by.
Hmmm. Is this the Jimmy Carter
who confirmed to then-New York mayor Ed Koch that Carter, if reelected, would "sell out" the Jews
or the peanut President who
according to investigative journalists Andrew and Leslie Cockburn, Carter, at a March 1980 meeting with his senior political advisers, angrily snapped, "If I get back in, I`m going to f--- the Jews."
Yes, but no thanks to the the dumb Jews who still give the Dems 80% of their vote. -Tom
Lately, he's been showing his true colors—opening his yap and sounding like a complete dumb@$$ to the core.
I know. I used to believe that he was a decent person, but a bad leader. Now, I realize that he's a vain, petty and bitter little man.
You forgot how he hectored us about "national malaise" and pretty much got his ass kicked by a killer rabit.
And now you know why the Eurobumpkins awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize.
Because he did his best to undermine this great nation and bring us to our collective knees -- and not in a Lewinsky-like way?
Something that rhymes with "hick," which, incidentally, he also happens to be?
Yeah, and it's all the fault of Bush and the Jews...
"Under the last Democratic administration 60 percent of all weapons that went into the Middle East were for Israel. Nowadays - 75 percent were for Israel before. Now [under the Nixon and Ford administrations] 60 percent go to the Arab countries, and this does not include Iran. If you include Iran, our present shipment of weapons to the Middle East, only 20 percent goes to Israel. This is a deviation from idealism; it's a deviation from a commitment to our major ally in the Middle East, which is Israel; it's a yielding to economic pressure on the part of the Arabs on the oil issue; and it's also a tremendous indication that under the Ford administration we have not addressed the energy policy adequately. We still have no comprehensive energy policy in this country."
" . . . in 1975, we almost brought Israel to their knees after the uh - Yom Kippur War by the so-called reassessment of our relationship to Israel. [The Ford Administration] in effect tried to make Israel the scapegoat for the problems in the Middle East. And this weakened our relationships with Israel a great deal and put a cloud on the total commitment that our people feel toward the Israelis. There ought to be a clear, unequivocal commitment without change to Israel.
Now Carter and his gang of like-minded leftists are making Israel the scapegoat for the turmoil in the Middle East. How times change . . .
I used to think Jimmy Carter was a nice, if misguided, man.
I now see that Jimmy Carter is Clinton without the hard-on.
Peanut d**k.
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