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."
And a fitting definition of Jummuh....
Why does anyone even bother to publish anything he has to say? If his performance in The White House didn't destroy his credibility, this personal foreign policy after leaving office should have.
Does anyone remember any republican presidents that didn't follow the accepted protocol that former presidents stayed the hell of national/international politics?
WE get advice and interference from Slick, Maddy Halfbright, Jimmah, etc all the time. I Wish someone could get it through to them that they are not in office now...we have elected officials ...ahhh, time for bed -
Hey Carter, have a heart attack already!
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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
…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
…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
Not everyone gets to be the worst president and the worst ex-president. That is quite an accomplishment.
Unfortunately, the Palestinians don't carry out their half of any agreement. Neville Chamberlain got an agreement, too, at Munich.
And, whenever I see "international Quartet", my first thought is "how is Israel going to get screwed this time?".
Thanks Jimmy.. for allowing 7th century Islamic madmen to gain control of Iran's oil and misuse the massive exported petroleum profits to murder the Israelis, murder Americans & other Coalition troops in Iraq, in Afghanistan, plus the current nuclear confrontation with Iran, which is right around the corner. Thanks Jimmy...thanks for nothing!
OMG, and to think this cretan was our president!
Carter is an embarrassment to this country. Talk about WORST.PRESIDENT.EVER............. he should retire and shutup.
Ah, so Carter has finally discovered a violation of the Oslo Accord.
Miz Lillian had the biggest pair of boobs in Georgia!
Is jimmahcarter still alive?
He's got lots of friends because he never met a dictator or tyrant he didn't like. He's praised Castro and when he disgraced America before the world by allowing Americans to be held hostage by Iran for more than a year he even was afraid he'd hurt the feelings of Ayatollah Khomeini if he acted like a real president. Reagan cleaned up his mess and the hostages were released just before his inauguration -- because they knew he wouldn't tolerate the humiliation of the USA and engage in the cowardly crap that Carter did for more than 400 days!
I would sure like to see Ol Jimmy-bob just come clean one of these days...step up and really do something to help the Palestinian Intafada,...... he could strap one on and go kaboom,
Now that would be the first Good News ever generated by this Carter guy !
Forgive me, father, for I have sinned; I voted for Jimmy Carter while still a zombie of National Public Radio.
One mediocre, terrorist-loving, mushy brained man has done the world an incalculable amount of harm! This is the U.S. president who brought the Ayatollahs to power in the Middle East.
Too bad his lust for the world's dictators was not just in his head, so he could have just left it at that.
These dictators are not paying him peanuts.
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