Posted on 05/16/2006 7:28:56 PM PDT by ncountylee
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."
"It is inconceivable that any Palestinian, Arab leader, or any objective member of the international community ...
Well, that was enough for me right there. Objective member, jeesh. Excuse me, I have to get rid of this bile in my mouth.
Ohhh boy, there he goes again
Jimmy Carter -- The worst President ever!
As far as I'm concerned: he can take a peanut and stick it where the sun don't shine
Gee .. I don't remember the peaNUT making such a stink when they were blowing up and murdering innocent Israelis
Shut Up Jimmy
Peanut butter for brains ping.
Yet again Carter shows his kool-aid drinking abilities with statements like this. As far as I know 'Jihad' predates Israel.
He's the best friend of Chavez, too, don't forget.
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.
Then, if the Palis continue with terrorism, announce that land will be taken for every rocket attack, etc. until the Palis recognize that they are wrecking their last chance to have any nation at all.
Does anyone else find it humerous that he's griping about a 13-year old treat that was supposed to solve this problem ages ago? that was hailed as a breakthrough?
There goes another Nobel Prize!
Say, I know this is changing the subject, but did the Iranian Mullahs ever finish erecting that statue to Carter?
What an embarassment this man continues to be. I had an occasion to visit Electic Boat in Groton, Connecticut....and witness the last Seawolf sub being built and *named* for this embarassing blemish on American politics.....*sigh*...
I honestly don't know who's worse: X42 or this buckt-oothed crap weasel. I can almost cut slick some slack since he's nothing more than a sociopath. Jimmah, however, is an endlessly self-righteous blowhard. The only justice in that scrawny little turd's life is that he's married to Roselyn.
It's like he is living in an alternative reality.
"The West has given more significance to the myth of the genocide of the Jews, even more significant than God, religion, and the prophets...."—Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The Holocaust Chronicle ~
"Palestine is the wrong name for their State. It should be called Anarchy."—FReeper sgtbono2002
"Then let's wait and see what the Arabs do after they take Gaza. There's nothing like Arab reality to break up a Jewish fantasy."—FReeper Noachian
A student told his professor he was going to "Palestine" to "fight for freedom, peace and justice,"—Orwellian leftist code words that mean "murder Jews."
The Nature Of Bruce ~
Carter was a joke as a young fool; but a puke as an old fool.
Since 99% of them don't even recognize Israel's right to exist, nor even acknowledge its existence on maps, I say let the Israelis do what they want.
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