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Carter: Stop favoring Fatah over Hamas--Hamas official wants dialogue with Fatah
Jerusalem Post ^ | 6-17-07

Posted on 06/19/2007 8:17:51 AM PDT by SJackson

Carter: Stop favoring Fatah over Hamas By ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBLIN, Ireland

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The United States, Israel and the European Union must end their policy of favoring Fatah over Hamas, or they will doom the Palestinian people to deepening conflict between the rival movements, former US President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday.

Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was addressing a conference of Irish human rights officials, said the Bush administration's refusal to accept the 2006 election victory of Hamas was "criminal."

Carter said Hamas, besides winning a fair and democratic mandate that should have entitled it to lead the Palestinian government, had proven itself to be far more organized in its political and military showdowns with the Fatah movement of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

Hamas fighters routed Fatah in their violent takeover of the Gaza Strip last week. The split prompted Abbas to dissolve the power-sharing government with his rivals in Hamas and set up a Fatah-led administration to govern the West Bank.

Carter said the American-Israeli-European consensus to reopen direct aid to the new government in the West Bank, but to deny the same to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, represented an "effort to divide Palestinians into two peoples."

While seeking to boycott the Hamas leadership because of its refusal to renounce violence and recognize Israel, Europe and the US have continued to send humanitarian aid to Gaza through the United Nations and other organizations.

During his speech to Ireland's eighth annual Forum on Human Rights, the 83-year-old former president said monitors from his Carter Center observed the 2006 election in which Hamas won 42 percent of the popular vote and a majority of parliamentary seats.

Carter said that election was "orderly and fair" and Hamas triumphed, in part, because it was "shrewd in selecting candidates," whereas a divided, corrupt Fatah ran multiple candidates for single seats.

Far from encouraging Hamas's move into parliamentary politics, Carter said the US and Israel, with European Union acquiescence, has sought to subvert the outcome by shunning Hamas and helping Abbas to keep the reins of political and military power.

"That action was criminal," he said in a news conference after his speech.

"The United States and Israel decided to punish all the people in Palestine and did everything they could to deter a compromise between Hamas and Fatah," he said.

Carter said the United States and others supplied the Fatah-controlled security forces in Gaza with vastly superior weaponry in hopes they would "conquer Hamas in Gaza" - but Hamas this month routed Fatah because of its "superior skills and discipline."

He said plans to reopen international aid to the West Bank, but clamp down on aid to Gaza, would imprison 1.4 million Gazans. He called for both territories to be treated equally.

"This effort to divide Palestinians into two peoples now is a step in the wrong direction," he said. "All efforts of the international community should be to reconcile the two, but there's no effort from the outside to bring the two together."

Carter was pessimistic this would happen soon. "I don't see at this point any possibility that public officials in the United States, or in Israel, or the European Union are going to take action to bring about reconciliation," he said.

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Hamas official wants dialogue with Fatah By AP AND JPOST STAFF

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Facing growing international isolation, the Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday called for a "national dialogue" with their vanquished Fatah foes.

"We are shocked and surprised by the voices forbidding discussions with us, while they enter discussions with Israel," Khalil al-Haya, a prominent Hamas lawmaker, said at a news conference. "We are still prepared for a brotherly serious and responsible national dialogue."

The statement followed a decision made by Fatah's top leadership body to cut off all contacts with Hamas, a participant said. The decision was made in a meeting of the Fatah Central Committee, said Azzam al-Ahmed.

"The Fatah Central Committee decided today not to conduct any kind of contact, dialogue or meetings with Hamas unless it ends its military coup in Gaza and restores the situation to normal," al-Ahmed said. "Fatah will have no relationship with Hamas on any level."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benlabolt; deranged; jimmycarter; moron; peanuthead; robertmalley; terroristsfriend; threepeat; tombaldwin
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1 posted on 06/19/2007 8:17:52 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

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2 posted on 06/19/2007 8:19:34 AM PDT by Vaquero
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Yeah....Jimmy Carter....a legend in his own mind....


3 posted on 06/19/2007 8:20:02 AM PDT by NRA1995 (Hillary sings like Granny Clampett auditioning for "American Idol")
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Nice to to see Jimmy back from pandering to the Maoists in Nepal. Bet he's glad to be back to his day job, supporting Hamas.


4 posted on 06/19/2007 8:21:53 AM PDT by SJackson (isolationism never was, never will be acceptable response to[expansionist] tyrannical governments)
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Jimmy is such a know-it-all; if only Reagan hadn’t beaten him, this all would have been solved in Carter’s second term.


5 posted on 06/19/2007 8:22:07 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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Carter should just shut the hell up and stay out in his pasture.


6 posted on 06/19/2007 8:22:38 AM PDT by RedCell (WHERE'S THE FENCE?!!!!)
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To: SJackson

Imagine those unreasonable Israelis, slighting Hamas simply because its charter calls for the destruction of Israel. I mean, how petty can you be! /sarcasm off


7 posted on 06/19/2007 8:23:48 AM PDT by NoBullZone
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Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate

It sickens me to see that title assigned to peanut boy as if it were some kind of honor. Whatever legitimacy that prize had went right out the window when the committee went political and awarded Carter the prize simply to spite Bush.
8 posted on 06/19/2007 8:24:29 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (God is great!)
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Shut up Jimmy, your hug a dictator theories are so 1970’s.


9 posted on 06/19/2007 8:25:04 AM PDT by Badeye ("In 2 weeks, I join the list of UNEMPLOYED". ...Goldi-Lox (karma comes around))
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To: Steve_Seattle
Jimmy is such a know-it-all; if only Reagan hadn’t beaten him, this all would have been solved in Carter’s second term.

Just started reading RR's Diary; he takes some good shots at JC.

10 posted on 06/19/2007 8:26:02 AM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
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To: SJackson
Hamas = Muslim Brotherhood = Qtb cleric in Egypt = Hezbollah = Al Qaida = Trouble.

Jimmy Carter is an old man who is unafraid of committing us all to his reasonable suicide pact of appeasement.

11 posted on 06/19/2007 8:29:55 AM PDT by x_plus_one (As long as we pretend to not be fighting Iran in Iraq, we can't pretend to win the war.)
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To: reagan_fanatic

Nobel Prize Laureate? Same people will probably give one to Al Gore also. Hell they gave one to Yasser Arifat. Tells you something about the Nobel Prize.


12 posted on 06/19/2007 8:30:05 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Old Retired Army Guy
Tells you something about the Nobel Prize.

Tells me that it is the next set of coordinates that I would like to dial into my GPS...

13 posted on 06/19/2007 8:33:36 AM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: SJackson
The United States, Israel and the European Union must end their policy of favoring Fatah over Hamas, or they will doom the Palestinian people to deepening conflict between the rival movements, former US President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday.

And when do the Palestinian people - and I find that term highly suspect - take responsibility for themselves?

14 posted on 06/19/2007 8:38:17 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate

Carter is as deserving of the peace prize as much as the current holder of Arafat's Nobel (who just acquired it during the Hamas takeover).

15 posted on 06/19/2007 8:41:29 AM PDT by C210N (Bush SPIED, Terrorists DIED!)
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...Tells you something about the Nobel Prize....

Right. It's awarded for the 'Pet Project at the Moment'.

16 posted on 06/19/2007 8:43:42 AM PDT by Inquisitive1 (I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance - Socrates)
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To: SJackson

Ronald Reagan brought more peace to this world than Jimmah, yet this fool of fools gets a peace prize. What a joke.

Carter meanwhile allowed a radical Islamic state to rise in Iran, gave control of the Panama canal to a dope dealing sleaze bag, allowed Nicaragua to fall to the communist backed leftist, allowed Castro to unload his prison and mental hospital populations on south Florida and certified the election of lunatic in Venezuela. His actions have caused more death, destruction and unrest than any other person to hold such a high office as the Presidency of the United States, and they gave this fool a peace prize.

Alfred Nobel must have been rolling over in his grave when that occurred.


17 posted on 06/19/2007 8:43:59 AM PDT by jerod
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What Jimmy Cater doesn’t know could fill oceans.

What he has accomplished that helped his nation couldn’t fill a thimble.

The poor schnook has positively no idea of what’s going on - anywhere.

He should’ve stuck to peanuts.


18 posted on 06/19/2007 8:44:24 AM PDT by RexBeach (Americans never quit. -Douglas MacArthur)
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To: SJackson

This moron get all the MSM ink he wants....George Bush freed 50 million people and the press wants to piss on him...


19 posted on 06/19/2007 8:45:26 AM PDT by halfright (How come you never see any Suicide Mullah's?)
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To: x_plus_one

I’m convinced this country is so clueless we have no hope against the jihad.


20 posted on 06/19/2007 8:56:03 AM PDT by pacelvi
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