carters at it again:(

Jimmy Carter is at it again, this time attacking Israel and defending the Palestinians, and to those who think we can ignore him - and that he'll somehow go away, he won't.

What we must now do is speak out, condemn Carter's actions and make him so controversial of a figure that he will be unable to advance his foreign policy agenda of American appeasement and surrender to the demands of the world's tyrants and dictators.

The latest offensive action by Carter came yesterday, when the former president wrote an OpEd in USA Today that attacked Israel and defended the Palestinian regime now led by the terrorist group, Hamas.

This is only the most recent incident where Carter has attacked Israel, while simultaneously defending the Palestinian people who have declared Israel and the United States to be their most hated enemies.

Carter's working for the wrong side again, folks. On September 11th we were all frozen in horror and disbelief at the sickening images of so many innocent American civilians being slaughtered by Islamic terrorists.

Yet the streets of the Palestinian territory were a different story. Many Palestinians were delighted to see the United States wounded, and they took to the streets with spontaneous celebrations. How can Jimmy Carter always manage to pick the wrong side to sympathize with?

Israel's new plan: A land grab
Posted 5/15/2006 8:48 PM ET E-mail | Save | Print | Subscribe to stories like this


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By Jimmy Carter
New Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has announced that Israel will take unilateral steps to establish its own geographical boundaries during the next four years of his administration. His plan, as described during the recent Israeli election and the formation of a new governing coalition, would take about half of the Palestinian West Bank and encapsulate the urban areas within a huge concrete wall and the more rural parts of Palestine within a high fence. The barrier is not located on the internationally recognized boundary between Israel and Palestine, but entirely within and deeply penetrating the occupied territories.
The only division of territory between Israel and the Palestinians that is recognized by the United States or the international community awarded 77% of the land to the nation of Israel and the other small portion divided between the West Bank and Gaza. Only about twice the size of Washington, D.C., Gaza is now a politically and economically non-viable region, almost completely isolated from the West Bank, Israel and the outside world.

West Bank dissected

The Olmert plan would leave the remnant of the Palestinian West Bank with the same unacceptable characteristics. Deep intrusions would effectively divide it into three portions. The prime minister has also announced that Israeli soldiers will likely remain in the Palestinian territory, which will be completely encapsulated by Israel's control of its eastern border in the Jordan River valley.

It is inconceivable that any Palestinian, Arab leader, or any objective member of the international community could accept this illegal action as a permanent solution to the continuing altercation in the Middle East. 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 Bush helped to initiate and has strongly supported.

Although former prime minister Ariel Sharon and the Israeli government rejected the key provisions of the road map by the Quartet of negotiators ? the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia ? it has been endorsed unequivocally by the moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Israel's government had adopted carefully negotiated agreements at Camp David in 1978 and in Oslo in 1993. Israeli leaders Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres received Nobel Peace Prizes for these major steps toward peace, along with their Arab counterparts. The basic terms of both of these historic accords would also be violated by Olmert's plan, as would all of the U.N. Security Council's resolutions on which the agreements were predicated and the nation of Israel was founded.

What is the alternative to this ill-advised move toward the unilateral confiscation and colonization of a major portion of the West Bank?

A better course


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