News – Former President Jimmy Carter deplored Palestinian militant attacks on Israel as a "despicable crime" as he toured a rocket-battered town on Monday.
Finally, an official recognition from a Nobel Peace Prize honoree.
If you'll remember, Yasir Arafat was a Nobel Peace Prize Honoree as well. So much for having that distinction!!!!
WTF is your point, jerk. My point is: a U.S. Nobel winner is taking the only common-sense approach to getting to a peace deal. The current cowards in Washington want to prolong this dispute so for my tax money, whatever Carter does is light years ahead of what Bushitters are doing, which is nothing.
And.... You actually believe that? My point is that Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize the same way that Arafat did- Right place, right time. Had nothing to do with ability or anything else for that matter. Sadat was the genuine recipient of the peace award because he asked for peace. Carter was just there. It could have been Mickey Mouse in the white house and he would have gotten credit for making peace with Israel and Egypt. Arafat, what can I say.... big joke on all of us, but more so on the Nobel prize committee. Don't be in such a hurry to give Carter credit for anything, either past or present.
I respect your response, Edmar14. What American with any influence has his/her boots on the ground there??
No Islamic nation is going to really listen to a female (Dr. Rice). Bush and Co. refuse to engage in any dialogue. How long are we suppose to wait for someone with a pair of balls to make a move.
Who's gonna blink first?? There can be no dialogue without talking ... with all parties involved, and let there be no doubt, Hamas is involved.
Remembered what happened after Carter's book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," was published?
Because of the book's inaccuracies and imbalance and Carter's subsequent behavior, 14 members of the Carter Center's Board of Councilors have resigned -- many in anguish because they so respect Carter's other work. All are Jews
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
That book made it clear how Cater feels about Israel
Respectfully, there will be no peace until Israel gets its ass out of Palestine. Don't mean to be so very blunt, but Israel has a responsibility in this matter, also. They are suffocating innocent peoples lives ... making an entire population suffer ... and block any real effort to sustain any meaningful dialogue. Is this any way for the 'chosen people' to respond?? I don't think so, walden3 (I apologise for my calling you Jerk. Passionate response.)
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Carter met with police officials and with the mayor of Sderot, a southern town a mile from the Gaza Strip border. He was shown a house badly damaged by a rocket strike, and rusting piles of projectiles that had hit the town.
"I think it's a despicable crime for any deliberate effort to be made to kill innocent civilians, and my hope is there will be a cease-fire soon," Carter told reporters.
Carter brokered Israel's historic peace accord with Egypt in 1979, the first treaty it signed with an Arab country. But he has been unpopular in Israel since publishing a book two years ago drawing comparisons between Israeli policies in the West Bank and Gaza and apartheid in South Africa.
He was the only president to broker an actual peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state.
Egypt was chomping at the bit for a peace treaty with Israel after the 1973 war. Sadat knew that the country couldn't sustain another loss, either economically or morale wise. Carter just happened to be in office at the right time. Anybody who would have been in office at the time would have been in the position to have brokered the peace. Otherwise, Carter was ineffective in foreign policy, as we all saw with the Iran hostage crisis. His ineffectiveness as a president was one of several reasons why he wasn't re-elected. I don't think that his brother Billy did him any good either. Just for historical reference, Jordan's kind Abdullah the First was killed for trying to make peace with Israel many years before Egypt did.