Israel Ambassador Calls Carter a "Bigot"

NEW YORK -- Israel's ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday called former President Jimmy Carter "a bigot" for meeting with the leader of the militant Hamas movement in Syria.

Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, "went to the region with soiled hands and came back with bloody hands after shaking the hand of Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas," Ambassador Dan Gillerman told a luncheon briefing for reporters.

...The ambassador's harsh words for Carter came days after the ex-president met with Mashaal for seven hours in Damascus to negotiate a cease-fire with Gaza's Hamas rulers. Carter then called Mashaal on Monday to try to get him to agree to a one-month truce without conditions, but the Hamas leader rejected the idea.

The ambassador called last weekend's encounter "a very sad episode in American history."

He said it was "a shame" to see Carter, who had done "good things" as a former president, "turn into what I believe to be a bigot."

Good call.

Jimmy Carter, Hamas, and the Beijing Olympics

A Palestinian boy wears a Hamas headband during a protest organized by the Hamas movement calling for an end to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip April 11, 2008. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA)

There was a time when I had a great deal of respect for Jimmy Carter. Yes, he was a disaster as president, but I thought he was honorable and decent, a man of character. Not anymore.

I see Jimmy Carter as an old, desperate, selfish man.

WASHINGTON -- Former President Carter said he feels "quite at ease" about meeting Hamas militants over the objections of Washington because the Palestinian group is essential to a future peace with Israel.

Carter, interviewed Saturday for ABC News' "This Week," airing Sunday, also said he would oppose a U.S. Olympic boycott and hopes all countries will join in the Beijing games.

He spoke from Katmandu, Nepal, where his team of observers from the Carter Center monitored an election that appeared likely to transform rule by royal dynasty into a democracy with former Maoist rebels in a strong position, judging by incomplete returns.

Several State Department officials, including the secretary, Condoleezza Rice, criticized Carter's plans to talk in Syria this week with exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in the first public contact in two years between a prominent American figure and the group. Carter said he had not heard the objections directly, although a State Department spokesman said earlier that a senior official from the department had called the former president.

"President Carter is a private citizen. We respect his views," Stephen Hadley, President Bush's national security adviser, said Sunday on ABC.

"The position of the government is that Hamas is a terrorist organization and we don't negotiate with terrorists. We think that's a very important principle to maintain," Hadley said. "The State Department made clear we think it's not useful for people to be running to Hamas at this point and having meetings."

Carter demurred.

"I feel quite at ease in doing this," he said. "I think there's no doubt in anyone's mind that, if Israel is ever going to find peace with justice concerning the relationship with their next-door neighbors, the Palestinians, that Hamas will have to be included in the process."

Although he said the meeting would not be a negotiation, he outlined distinct goals.

"I think that it's very important that at least someone meet with the Hamas leaders to express their views, to ascertain what flexibility they have, to try to induce them to stop all attacks against innocent civilians in Israel and to cooperate with the Fatah as a group that unites the Palestinians, maybe to get them to agree to a cease-fire — things of this kind," he said.

The State Department says it advised Carter twice against meeting representatives of Hamas, which Washington considers a terrorist organization.

"I find it hard to understand what is going to be gained by having discussions with Hamas about peace when Hamas is, in fact, the impediment to peace," Rice said Friday, after reports of the planned meeting surfaced.

It's true that Carter is a private citizen, but he's not your average private citizen. He was president of the United States.

And he feels "quite at ease" with undercutting the policy of the current administration.

There's something seriously wrong with Carter if he can feel "quite at ease" with that.

Carter said he'd be meeting Syrians, Egyptians, Jordanians, Saudi Arabians and others "who might have to play a crucial role in any future peace agreement that involves the Middle East."

Asked whether it was right to meet a group that has not renounced violence or recognized Israel, he said, "Well, you can't always get prerequisites adopted by other people before you even talk to them."

Carter claims that he's not negotiating.

Then what is it that he's doing? Having casual chats about peace agreements in the Middle East?

Pressure to drop the meeting has come from his own party. Democratic Reps. Artur Davis of Alabama, Shelley Berkley of Nevada, Adam Schiff of California and Adam Smith of Washington state wrote a letter to Carter saying the meeting could confer legitimacy on a group that embraces violence.

"I've been meeting with Hamas leaders for years," Carter said.

Carter says he has been meeting with Hamas leaders for years.

Perhaps that's why he feels so comfortable getting cozy with terrorists. Perhaps that's why he spouts opinions that verge on the anti-Semitic.

In spite of Carter's years of meetings, Hamas is no closer to rejecting terrorism.

Carter can add that to his list of failures.

The Carter Center said his "study mission" was taking him to Israel, the West Bank, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan this week.

"Study mission."

Good grief.

Apparently, Carter's idea of a "study mission" is spitting in the face of the American government.

Carter, a broker of the 1978 Camp David peace accords between Egypt and Israel, won the Nobel Peace Prize for his conflict mediation as president and since.

Carter isn't acting as a peacemaker. He's serving to legitimize terrorists. He's complicating matters. He's an obstacle to peace.

As president, Carter led the boycott of the Moscow Olympics in protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. "That was a totally different experience in 1980, when the Soviet Union had brutally invaded and killed thousands and thousands of people," he said, rejecting the idea of boycotting the Beijing games to protest China's crackdown in Tibet. He did not address whether just the opening ceremonies should be boycotted.

Carter is clueless. He was clueless as president and he's grown more clueless.

Boycotting the Moscow Olympics punished American athletes, not the Soviet Union. It didn't change a thing in Afghanistan. Carter reveals how myopic he is when he says, "That was a totally different experience in 1980, when the Soviet Union had brutally invaded and killed thousands and thousands of people."

How many people have been treated brutally and killed by the Chinese government?

It's ridiculous for him to suggest that the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan was a greater affront to humanity than China's abysmal record on human rights. If Carter had any sense of history and personal honor, he would admit that the Olympic boycott he led was a mistake.

I believe since Carter left office he's been on a crusade to alter his page in American history. His presidency was an unmitigated disaster. I don't think he's come to terms with being rejected and tossed out of office. He clings to the Camp David Accords but that accomplishment doesn't erase his complete impotence in dealing with the Iranian hostage crisis, the Soviet Union, and domestic issues.

Carter is not a humble man. He has a massive ego. He acts as if he has all the answers.

For all the talk from the Left that George W. Bush behaves in a messianic manner, it seems to me that Carter is the messianic one.

There's no defending Carter meeting with Hamas, or his pro-Palestinian bias.

Hey, Jimmy Carter! Read This!

JERUSALEM -- An 8-year-old boy and his older brother were seriously wounded Saturday when a rocket from Gaza slammed into the Israeli border town of Sderot, police and medics said.

The younger boy's legs were at least partially severed by the explosion, Israel's Army Radio reported. His 19-year-old brother was also badly hurt. A medic, who only gave his first name as Gil, said he heard a loud explosion and rushed toward the scene.

"I found two injured people, one boy very seriously wounded in the legs," the medic told Army Radio.

Israel threatened retaliation.

"Israel will take resolute and decisive measures to protect our citizens," government spokesman David Baker said. "We will not allow Israeli families to be victimized by Palestinian rockets in the heart of their own cities."

The militant group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for firing two rockets toward Sderot around the time of the attack. Two rockets had fallen earlier in the day, but caused no damage or injuries.

The Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip had vowed to persist in their attacks despite an Israeli cutback in power supply to the coastal territory that was meant to pressure Palestinians to stop the launchings.

The Israeli army and government have been reluctant to launch a large military campaign in Gaza against the rocket operation for fear both soldiers and Palestinian civilians would suffer a great number of casualties. But analysts say any serious rocket attacks will put great pressure on the political echelon to approve such a broad operation.

Jimmy Carter's Pro-Palestian Bias

During an interview with Charlie Rose on November 30 2006, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Carter's true colors were evident.

He acted as a PR man for the anti-Israel contingent.

He insisted that "Israel wants to confiscate Palestinian land."

He legitimized Hamas' refusal to recognize Israel's right to exist.

Carter said, "Hamas can't recognize Israel until it stays within its borders."

He even claimed that he hadn't seen any proof that Hamas was responsible for lobbing missiles at Israel.

Sorry but that's not someone who's an unbiased peace broker.

Carter doesn't seem to understand that peace can't come at the price of appeasing terrorists.

Moreover, Carter doesn't seem to understand that his Hamas buddies are terrorists.
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Watch the interview.

Bigot Arun Gandhi

UPDATE, January 27, 2008--

From the Tehran Times:

Gandhi grandson falls victim to Zionist lobby
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- Arun Gandhi said he learned at his grandfather's feet that the world's major conflicts can only be tackled by first solving the little problems.

"It's the little problems that accumulate and become big problems," the fifth grandson of revered pacifist Mahatma Gandhi said when he moved his M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence to the University of Rochester last June.

Now, intemperate remarks about Israel and Jews being "the biggest players" in a global culture of violence have gotten Gandhi removed as president of the peace center he launched in 1991.

"My intention was to generate a healthy discussion on the proliferation of violence," Gandhi said Friday, a day after the institute's board accepted his resignation. "Instead, unintentionally, my words have resulted in pain, anger, confusion and embarrassment. I deeply regret these consequences."

The institute offers courses, workshops and seminars on nonviolence and will "continue its mission" at the University of Rochester, which provides office space and staff support, said the school's president, Joel Seligman.

...Gandhi's resignation "was appropriate" because his remarks "did not reflect the core values" of either the university or the institute, Seligman said in a statement.

...Gandhi was on a panel of scholars, writers and clergy who discuss a new topic weekly on the Washington Post's "On Faith" page and his comments, posted Jan. 7, drew a torrent of criticism, much of it unfavorable.

Gandhi wrote that Jewish identity "has been locked into the holocaust experience—a German burden that the Jews have not been able to shed. It is a very good example of (how) a community can overplay a historic experience to the point that it begins to repulse friends.

"The holocaust was the result of the warped mind of an individual who was able to influence his followers into doing something dreadful. ... The world did feel sorry for the episode but when an individual or a nation refuses to forgive and move on, the regret turns into anger."

Describing Israel as "a nation that believes its survival can only be ensured by weapons and bombs," Gandhi asked whether it would "not be better to befriend those who hate you?"

"Apparently, in the modern world so determined to live by the bomb, this is an alien concept," he wrote. "You don't befriend anyone, you dominate them. We have created a culture of violence (Israel and the Jews are the biggest players) and that Culture of Violence is eventually going to destroy humanity."

It sounds like Gandhi has a lot in common with Jimmy Carter and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

I see a Nobel Peace Prize nomination in Gandhi's future.

Draft Gore

The "Draft Gore" movement is picking up steam.

Yesterday, there was that full-page ad in the New York Times.

Today, Gore's Nobel Peace Prize win is sparking speculation that he will use that as a springboard to leap into the '08 presidential race.

Alas, I'm afraid that all of this will prove to be just a deep tissue massage to Gore's ego and nothing more.

I'd love to see him run. (I mean for president, not literally.)

I wish the Democrats would put him at the top of their ticket.

It would guarantee that the Republican nominee would win the presidency.

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Al Gore

Was there really ever any doubt about how this was going to play out?

First, the Oscar. Then, the Emmy. Now, the Nobel Peace Prize.

The gluttonous Al Gore is the 2007 winner.


Al Gore and the private jet

OSLO, Norway -- Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s climate change panel won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for spreading awareness of man-made climate change and laying the foundations for counteracting it.

Gore, whose film on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," won an Academy Award earlier this year, had been widely tipped to win Friday's prize, which expanded the Norwegian committee's interpretation of peacemaking and disarmament efforts that have traditionally been the award's foundations.

"We face a true planetary emergency," Gore said. "The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity."

The Nobel committee chairman, Ole Danbolt Mjoes, asserted that the prize was not aimed at the Bush administration, which rejected Kyoto and was widely criticized outside the U.S. for not taking global warming seriously enough.

"We would encourage all countries, including the big countries, to challenge, all of them, to think again and to say what can they do to conquer global warming," Mjoes said. "The bigger the powers, the better that they come in front of this."

Gore was expected to take advantage of the global stage the prize will give him to push for a resolution over climate change, instead.

The question: What does climate change have to do with peace?

The Norwegian Nobel Committee explains:

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.

Indications of changes in the earth's future climate must be treated with the utmost seriousness, and with the precautionary principle uppermost in our minds. Extensive climate changes may alter and threaten the living conditions of much of mankind. They may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the earth's resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world's most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states.

Through the scientific reports it has issued over the past two decades, the IPCC has created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming. Thousands of scientists and officials from over one hundred countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the warming. Whereas in the 1980s global warming seemed to be merely an interesting hypothesis, the 1990s produced firmer evidence in its support. In the last few years, the connections have become even clearer and the consequences still more apparent.

Al Gore has for a long time been one of the world's leading environmentalist politicians. He became aware at an early stage of the climatic challenges the world is facing. His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change. He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted.

By awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC and Al Gore, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is seeking to contribute to a sharper focus on the processes and decisions that appear to be necessary to protect the world’s future climate, and thereby to reduce the threat to the security of mankind. Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man’s control.

Oslo, 12 October 2007

This press release is more sappy and silly than those fraudulent photos of the polar bears stranded on an iceberg, doomed to die because, to quote Al Gore, "The planet has a fever."

This paragraph officially marks the moment the Norwegian Nobel Committee has jumped the shark, or jumped the polar bear if you prefer:

Indications of changes in the earth's future climate must be treated with the utmost seriousness, and with the precautionary principle uppermost in our minds. Extensive climate changes may alter and threaten the living conditions of much of mankind. They may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the earth's resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world's most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states.

Imagine how difficult it must have been for the Committee members to come up with some justification for linking global warming and Al Gore to peace.

I'm sure they must have struggled.

It's as if they decided Al Gore was the winner before they came up with reasons why.

The Committee has to cook up potential "increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states" to make a connection between global warming and peace.

So, Al Gore joins that illustrious list of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, including:

JIMMY CARTER JR., former President of the United States of America, for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.

The truth is Jimmy Carter has been the chief PR man for terrorists and the anti-Israel contingent for years.

He has gone beyond being an apologist for Hamas and terrorists. He is firmly entrenched in their corner. In short, Carter is an enemy of Israel.

That became clear with the release of his book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid.

He should quit pretending to be the wise elder statesman, the peacemaker. He was never wise and he was never a statesman. In my opinion, he wasn't much of a peacemaker either.

KOFI ANNAN, United Nations Secretary General, for ?

While Annan was Secretary General of the United Nations, the organization was steeped in scandal and anti-Semitism.

The astounding corruption, the human rights abuses, and the shocking incompetence of the UN during Annan's tenure is jaw-dropping.

The appeasement of terrorists and refusal to address genocide are just two of this peacemaker's accomplishments.

YASSER ARAFAT, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO, President of the Palestinian National Authority, for his efforts to create peace in the Middle East.

The list of terrorist Arafat's disgraces is endless.

One highlight: He was a mastermind behind Black September's slaughter of the Israeli 1972 Summer Olympic team in Munich.

Give the man a Peace Prize!

MIKHAIL SERGEYEVICH GORBACHEV, President of the USSR, helped to bring the Cold War to an end.

The Committee has a distorted view of Peacemaker Gorbachev.

"Ending the Cold War was given as a gift" to the United States, but it only strengthened its arrogance and unilateralism, he said. "The winner's complex is worse than an inferiority complex, because it's harder to cure."

Gorbachev claims that the USSR ended the Cold War as a gift to the U.S.

That is such a load!

What is he talking about?

The U.S. isn't arrogant.

The former Soviet Union was arrogant and that is why it fell apart under Gorbachev's watch.

In terms of a "winner's complex," the millions of people who were freed from Soviet oppression were the greatest winners in the implosion of the USSR.

THE UNITED NATIONS PEACE-KEEPING FORCES

A quick scan of the list of abuses by the UN "peace-keepers" leaves me ill.

UN peace-keepers have abused women and little girls in Liberia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Cambodia, East Timor, and Congo.

The UN has adopted a policy of "robust peacekeeping" to secure peace.

United Nations soldiers in the east have at their disposal tanks, armored personnel carriers, Mi-25 attack helicopters, mortars and rocket-propelled grenade launchers - all of which are getting heavy use....

"It may look like war but it's peacekeeping," said Lt. Gen. Babacar Gaye of Senegal, the force commander in Congo, of the largest and most robust of the 18 United Nations peacekeeping operations around the world.

Let's not forget the peace-keepers' Food-for-Sex program.

Disgusting, but worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.


BETTY WILLIAMS, co-founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People).

Ah, yes. Betty Williams, that peacemaker who has repeatedly stated that she wants George W. Bush dead.

From the Dallas Morning News:

Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams came from Ireland to Texas to declare that President Bush should be impeached.

In a keynote speech at the International Women's Peace Conference on Wednesday night, Ms. Williams told a crowd of about 1,000 that the Bush administration has been treacherous and wrong and acted unconstitutionally.

"Right now, I could kill George Bush," she said at the Adam's Mark Hotel and Conference Center in Dallas. "No, I don't mean that. How could you nonviolently kill somebody? I would love to be able to do that."

About half the crowd gave her a standing ovation after she called for Mr. Bush's removal from power.

Williams also publicly voiced her wish to kill President Bush before. While addressing a group of young people in Brisbane. Williams said, "Right now, I would love to kill George Bush." The audience cheered.

Rather than being a model peacemaker, she tranformed the event into something creepy, like a Hitler Youth rally.

Clearly, included among the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates are a strikingly large number of nutjobs.

It's rather embarrassing; but embarrassment requires a sense of conscience and shame, something the Norwegian Nobel Institute apparently lacks.

Hypocrites, terrorists, anti-Semites, and people prone to violent outbursts as symbols of peace?

Weird.

I wonder if deep down Bono is jealous that he didn't make the list for his work and Gore managed to become a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate for making a seriously flawed film and being a hypocrite.

He should be relieved that he didn't.
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Upon winning the Peace Prize, Al Gore speaks:

"The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level."

I think he wants an "Amen."

Betty Williams Wants Bush Dead

Included among the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates are a strikingly large number of nutjobs.

It's rather embarrassing; but embarrassment requires a sense of conscience and shame, something the Norwegian Nobel Institute apparently lacks.

Terrorists, anti-Semites, and people prone to violent outbursts as symbols of peace?

Weird.

One of the weirdest is Betty Williams.

This is stunning.

From The Dallas Morning News:

Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams came from Ireland to Texas to declare that President Bush should be impeached.

In a keynote speech at the International Women's Peace Conference on Wednesday night, Ms. Williams told a crowd of about 1,000 that the Bush administration has been treacherous and wrong and acted unconstitutionally.

"Right now, I could kill George Bush," she said at the Adam's Mark Hotel and Conference Center in Dallas. "No, I don't mean that. How could you nonviolently kill somebody? I would love to be able to do that."

About half the crowd gave her a standing ovation after she called for Mr. Bush's removal from power.

"The Muslim world right now is suffering beyond belief," she said.

"Unless the president of the United States is held responsible for what he's doing and what he has done, there's no one in the Muslim world who will forgive him."

When an audience member told Ms. Williams that Vice President Dick Cheney would become president if George Bush were impeached, she said, "Can't you impeach them both?"

"It's twisted. It's all wrong," she said. "There are so many lies being told. It's hard to be an American and go out into the world right now."

Williams has been serving up this disgusting shtick for at least a year.

She's publicly voiced her wish to kill President Bush before. While addressing a group of young people in Brisbane, Williams said, "Right now, I would love to kill George Bush." The audience cheered.

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The fact is a legitimate peace activist doesn't publicly state, "I would love to kill George Bush."

I wonder if Williams was pleased that her young audience cheered her statement and, in effect, agreed with her "Death to Bush!" message.

That response should have troubled her. She transformed the event into something creepy, like a Hitler Youth rally.

It's really unbelievable. A Nobel Peace Prize Laureate tells kids she would love to kill the President of the United States. That's sick.

It's just another sign of the extremism that has engulfed the Left.

Williams disgraced herself and the Norwegian Nobel Institute.

She's not a peacemaker. She promotes violence. Really sick.

Jimmy Carter: Worst Ex-President Ever

I can't help but rant about Jimmy Carter. The guy's behavior is so out of line that it just drives me nuts.

Yes, I think he qualifies as one of the worst U.S. presidents ever.

I haven't extensively researched how other former presidents conducted themselves after leaving office, and I don't intend to. (Where's Michael Beschloss when you need him?)

But if you look at the post-World War II presidents, Carter wins the title of worst ex-president, hands down.

Carter is up to his spiteful attacks again.

This time he's on foreign soil. That always makes things worse.

Terrorist apologist Carter was speaking in Ireland at a human rights conference. (Oh, the irony!)

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Former President Jimmy Carter accused the U.S., Israel and the European Union on Tuesday of seeking to divide the Palestinian people by reopening aid to President Mahmoud Abbas' new government in the West Bank while denying the same to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who was addressing a human rights conference in Ireland, also said the Bush administration's refusal to accept Hamas' 2006 election victory 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 Abbas' moderate Fatah movement.

...Carter said the consensus of the U.S., Israel and the EU to start funneling aid to Abbas' new government in the West Bank but continue blocking Hamas in the Gaza Strip represented an "effort to divide Palestinians into two peoples."

"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," he said.

The U.S. and European countries cut off the Hamas-led government last year because of the Islamic militant group's refusal to renounce violence and recognize Israel. They have continued to send humanitarian aid to Gaza through the United Nations and other organizations.

...During his speech to Ireland's annual Forum on Human Rights, the 83-year-old former president said monitors from his Carter Center observed the 2006 election that Hamas won. He said the vote 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' move into parliamentary politics, Carter said the U.S. and Israel, with European Union acquiescence, 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 U.S. and others supplied the Fatah-controlled security forces in Gaza with vastly superior weaponry in hopes they would "conquer Hamas in Gaza" — but Hamas routed Fatah in the fighting last week because of its "superior skills and discipline."

I am so sick of Carter's drivel and his infatuation with Hamas.

"Superior skills and discipline."

Good grief.

Carter has a crush on Hamas.


Hamas is to Carter as Sanjaya is to Ashley Feri.

I think that Nobel Prize really went to Carter's head. He trots around the world and bounces around network and cable news channels, spewing his garbage.

He wants to be seen as an elder statesman, respected and revered. Talk about looking through a distorted lens! Only radical libs, fans of terrorists, and terrorists can view Carter in those terms.

In reality, when it comes to foreign policy and terrorism, Carter has the smarts of Rosie O'Donnell.

The man was a disaster as president. On both domestic and foreign policy matters, Carter was a miserable failure. As if he didn't do enough damage to the United States and to the world while he was president, Carter is bent on continuing to chip away at our country. He does the bidding of terrorists. He harbors an almost shocking hostility toward Israel.

I really think his viciousness as an ex-president stems from selfishness.

Carter is bitter because he can't stand the fact that history will not look kindly on his failed presidency. So, he lashes out.

The problem is Carter doesn't make his comments in a vacuum. He's on the world stage.

His words carry weight and that makes his irresponsible assaults on the United States unforgivable.

Gaza Turmoil: Blame Bush

Like with everything else that has happened in the world since he took office on January 20, 2001, the state of emergency in Gaza is George Bush's fault.

At least that's the way The Washington Post sees it.

Five years ago this month, President Bush stood in the Rose Garden and laid out a vision for the Middle East that included Israel and a state called Palestine living together in peace. "I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders, leaders not compromised by terror," the president declared.

The takeover this week of the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group dedicated to the elimination of Israel demonstrates how much that vision has failed to materialize, in part because of actions taken by the administration. The United States championed Israel's departure from the Gaza Strip as a first step toward peace and then pressed both Israelis and Palestinians to schedule legislative elections, which Hamas unexpectedly won. Now Hamas is the unchallenged power in Gaza.

After his reelection in 2004, Bush said he would use his "political capital" to help create a Palestinian state by the end of his second term. In his final 18 months as president, he faces the prospect of a shattered Palestinian Authority, a radical Islamic state on Israel's border and increasingly dwindling options to turn the tide against Hamas and create a functioning Palestinian state.

"The two-state vision is dead. It really is," said Edward G. Abington Jr., a former State Department official who was once an adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Abbas, whose bouts of vacillation have irritated U.S. officials, yesterday dissolved the Palestinian government in response to Hamas's takeover of Gaza. U.S. officials signaled that they will move quickly to persuade an international peace monitoring group -- known as the Quartet -- to lift aid restrictions on the Palestinian government, allowing direct aid to flow to the West Bank-based emergency government that Abbas will lead.

"There is no more Hamas-led government. It is gone," said a senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the administration must still consult with other members of the Quartet. He said that humanitarian aid will continue to Gaza, but that the dissolution of the Palestinian government is a singular moment that will allow the United States and its allies to create a "new model of engagement."

The glee that The Post takes in the chaos in the Middle East is disgusting.

The lib rag delights in saying Bush was wrong. He failed. Things didn't work out. No peace for the Palestinians. Ha, ha!

Here's a newsflash: There hasn't been peace in the region since Israel was created. All efforts by all U.S. presidents to establish peace have failed. All past visions of peace in the region have been shattered.

Israel, for its part, made compromises, abandoning its settlements in the Gaza Strip. Those compromises weren't enough.

The Post mocks that, stating, "After his reelection in 2004, Bush said he would use his "political capital" to help create a Palestinian state by the end of his second term. In his final 18 months as president, he faces the prospect of a shattered Palestinian Authority, a radical Islamic state on Israel's border and increasingly dwindling options to turn the tide against Hamas and create a functioning Palestinian state."

In other words: Yippee! No peace in the Middle East.

Are you happy, libs?

What a bunch of sickos!

Why would any decent human being rooting for the failure of peace to take hold?

Why doesn't The Post point out that Jimmy Carter wrote an op-ed PIECE THAT APPEARED IN THE POST, calling for the Hamas government to be respected and given a chance?

Nooo. This is all the result of Bush's flawed vision. It's another Bush screw-up.

Instead of blaming Bush, why not blame the Palestinian people for electing Hamas, a terrorist regime?

Blame the people for being unwilling to live in peace. Blame them for embracing terrorists.

The Associated Press reports:

In Gaza, it was a day of major victories for Hamas and its backers in Iran and Syria — and of devastating setbacks for the Western-backed Fatah. In one particularly humiliating scene, masked Hamas fighters marched agents of the once-feared Preventive Security Service out of their headquarters, arms raised in the air, stripped to the waist and ducking at the sound of a gunshot.

"The era of justice and Islamic rule has arrived," Hamas spokesman Islam Shahawan said.

The violence has killed at least 90 people in the past five days, including 33 on Thursday alone. Witnesses, Fatah officials and a doctor reported executions by Hamas militants of defeated Fatah fighters Thursday; Fatah said seven of its men were shot in the head gangland-style. Hamas denied any such killings.

If gangland-style executions mark the beginning of "the era of justice and Islamic rule," then I would say Islamic rule is barbaric and Islamic justice is no justice at all.

What's happening in Gaza can't be blamed on Bush's policies. It can't be blamed on the failed efforts of previous U.S. administrations.

Blame the people of the region.

...Fatah officials, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, said Hamas shot dead seven Fatah fighters after they had surrendered. A doctor at Shifa Hospital said he examined two bodies that had been shot in the head at close range.

A witness named Amjad who lives in a high-rise building that overlooks the Preventive Security complex said men were killed in front of their wives and children.

"They are executing them one by one," Amjad said in a telephone interview, declining to give his full name for fear of reprisals. "They are carrying one of them on their shoulders, putting him on a sand dune, turning him around and shooting."

The killers, he said, ignored appeals from neighborhood residents to spare the men's lives.

...Hamas TV showed smoke billowing from the top two floors of the mortar-pocked, five-story intelligence building. Five masked gunmen posed inside for the TV camera, including one who raised two assault rifles in triumph.

Another gunman, wearing a Hamas headband around his helmet, stood in a pose of prayer, a hand to each side of his head, screaming "Allah is Great" at the top of his voice.

"Allah is Great."

Very nice.

Does Allah look kindly on execution-style killings?

Is killing men in front of their wives and children something to celebrate? Is that done for the glory of God?

No, don't blame Bush's vision for the fighting and bloodshed in Gaza.

Blame the supporters of an ideology that's rooted in hatred and a twisted notion of justice.

Libs should find no joy in the violence.

This isn't the time for Dems to be exploiting the Gaza upheaval and spinning it for their personal political gain.

This isn't the time for lib media outlets to be trumpeting Bush's failure.

If anything, the "Allah is Great" Hamas crowd have shown just how peace-loving and good they really are.

I can see it now: Hamas leaders win Nobel Peace Prize.