Jimmy Carter Meddling Again

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It’s simply amazing this guy was once our President. Here is Jimmy Carter speaking about the Israeli conflict this morning:

CARTER: … We’ve had a chance to meet two times with the leaders of Hamas, both those in Gaza and those that are top leaders in Damascus, Syria.

VIEIRA: And you’ve been criticized for that, sir, because Hamas is considered a terrorist group.

CARTER: By some, they are, and they’ve done some bad things. But for instance, the year before we had the cease-fire, that I helped to orchestrate last June, the 19th, there was one Israeli killed by rockets. And on an average, 49 Palestinians killed every month during that previous year. And as soon as the cease-fire went into effect, Hamas obeyed it completely. There was no serious rocket fire during the next four or five months.

Whereas, Israel did not restore providing provisions for the Palestinians and Gaza. But Hamas has pledged to me — and publicly — that they will accept any cease-fire that is negotiated between the Fatah leader, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Israelis, provided the cease- fire, in turn, is then submitted to the Palestinian people for approval and a referendum. So, that’s a major step forward.

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VIEIRA: Do you believe that Hamas can be trusted?

CARTER: Yes, I do. I think they can, because of their own self- interest, not because they’re benevolent, or kind, or that sort of thing. But yes, I do. I think they can. And they’ve never betrayed any commitment that they’ve made to me, or publicly, as a matter of fact. …

VIEIRA: But Hamas has said its goal is to destroy Israel. How can you involve them in a peace process when they said their goal is to destroy Israel? They don’t recognize Israel.

CARTER: I’m not here to defend Hamas, but to tell you what they have pledged to me, and publicly: That if any agreement is negotiated between Fatah leaders and Israel, that Hamas will accept the agreement if it’s submitted to the Palestinian people in a referendum. And that’s a very good step forward. And I think they will do that because of their own self-interest.

And Hamas complied very thoroughly with the cease-fire agreement that I had worked out for the last June the 19th. For five months, there were no rockets fired until Israel did attack Gaza again on November 4th.

He’s not here to defend Hamas? Pretty much all he did.

His logic in this case is pretty much indefensible. Hamas didn’t violate the cease fire because there was no SERIOUS rocket fire. What the hell does that mean? They continued to lob rockets into civilian areas, plain and simple. 126 rockets and 71 mortars in November alone….guess that isn’t serious. Baloney. It’s a violation of the cease fire.

Then he dismisses out of hand the fact that Hamas doesn’t recognize Israel and wants them destroyed.

David Greenberg and Stephen Hess describe Carter perfectly:

There they stood, all four living U.S. presidents at the White House, smiling and posing with the soon-to-be newest member of the club, Barack Obama. But at that historic gathering earlier this month, one member of the group, Jimmy Carter, appeared to be cut off from the rest, as if he had crashed the party but could stay if he didn’t cause any trouble.

“It was fascinating,” said Stephen Hess, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, who said the photo opportunity showed the others as clubby while Carter was a step apart. And there’s probably a good reason for that too, Hess said.

“He’s a person who has stuck his thumb in the eye of every president who has followed him,” he said.

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“I think in my view, he’s jumped the shark,” said David Greenberg, a presidential historian with Rutgers University. “He passed the point of no return when he wrote the book.”

Greenberg said he believes Carter has morphed from an angry and resentful ex-president after losing to Ronald Reagan to a self-righteous man who has damaged his reputation with his acts.

“Now a lot of people don’t know or follow it closely,” he said. “They see a man who does conflict resolution and Habitat for Humanity and admire that part. And that is part of the record.

“But when you look at the whole record, with the Middle East and the meddling with other presidents’ foreign policy, I think he has, one, behaved badly and, two, discredited himself in a deep way.”

The man is an embarrassment who has meddled in every Administration since he was kicked out of office after one term. I would call him one of the principal reasons the North Korea deal went south during Clinton’s run. He ran interference for the North Koreans and they got themselves some nukes.

Whatta guy!

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This is a perfect reason why former Presidents have typically gone silent after they leave office. We can only have one President at a time, right?

There would be huge amounts of outcry if former President G. W. Bush started talking about policy. Why is former President Carter not held to the same standard?

They don’t make them any dumber than Jimmy.

My best CArter pronouncement was the world will be out of oil by the year 2,000.

And as soon as the cease-fire went into effect, Hamas obeyed it completely. There was no serious rocket fire during the next four or five months.

“This is a list of 2008 rocket and mortar attacks on Israel, by Hamas and Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip. This was part of a rapidly escalating attacks by Hamas on Israel. Until the ceasefire in June 19 2008 2378 rockets and mortars were launched. This is more than the 1,639 attacks launched in all of 2007, the rate of fire per month had increased more than 240%. A six-month 2008 Israel–Hamas ceasefire was agreed to by both sides and began on June 19, 2008.[1] Rocket and mortar attacks still continued throughout the cease-fire although less frequently than before the cease-fire went into effect. A total of 20 rockets and 18 mortars were launched from the signing of the ceasefire until the beginning of November. This represented a 98% reduction in rocket fire four and a half month period prior to the signing of the ceasefire during which over 1,800 rockets were fired from Gaza.[2] On November 4, the Israeli military attacked cross-border tunnel on the Gaza side killing two Hamas gunman. The resulted in rocket and mortar attacks and subsequent Israel Air Force strikes on launching sites and killed an additional four Hamas gunmen. Israeli officials allege Hamas was constructing a tunnel to be used to abduct Israeli soldiers.[3] Following, this event the number of rockets fired from Gaza escalated, 125 being launched in the month of November. This page lists rocket attacks on Israel by Palestinian militants. According to the Israeli military’s count on December 27th, 3,000 rockets hit Israel since the beginning of the year. A total of eight people were killed by Qassam rocket, Grad rocket and mortar attacks on Israel in 2008. Four of these deaths occurred between 27-29 December[4][5]. ”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rocket_and_mortar_attacks_in_Israel_in_2008

Carter appears to be relatively correct in that both sides were fairly well maintaining the peace during the last cease-fire, BUT Carter ignores 2 things:
1) Hamas broke dug a tunnel into Israel to abduct Israeli soldiers-that’s not exactly a great way to maintain a cease-fire, and Israel responded
2) Hamas-NOT ISRAEL-ended the cease-fire

December 18th; Hamas declares the end of the 6 Month Truce with Israel. Three rockets are fired at Israel by the Al-Quds Brigades

When 2 warring entities have a cease-fire, and one says…no more cease-fire, then the onus for breaking the cease fire rests w that party. Hamas brought it upon themselves.

Best part though…yeah, right…Hamas can be trusted (let’s just ignore that little tunnel into Israel, ’cause it’s a trustworthy thing to do).

Jimmy the Dhimmi is such a moron…

Carter is an example of how good men don’t necessarily make good national leaders.

Carter deserves credit for bringing about the only substantive, enduring improvement in the mid-East situation; the end to the Israeli-Egyptian conflict, which was the worst and most potentially disastrous of the various mid-East conflicts of the late 20th century. He has also played a useful role as an election monitor and with respect to efforts against tropical diseases.

His mistake was trying to go beyond running his own personal United Nations by then trying to run his own personal State Department. Carter Center for conflict resolution.

I read that, of all the various hard feelings between ex-Presidents, the greatest by far are between Clinton and Carter.

– Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach, CA

Umm Larry, he DID NOT serve a useful role as an election monitor unless you are looking at things from the POV of the tyrants he helped!

jimmy just needs to know whento shut up, he has stuck his nose into so many things that nobody wants to listen to him anymore. he assumes that because he is an ex-president he still holds influence, he doesn’t. nobody like s a busybody, and he should realize that his days in the sun are over and go back to building houses for the poor. he should go jump in front of a dozer like the reject rachel corrie did a few years ago, he is only causing trouble.

Hamas will accept the agreement if it’s submitted to the Palestinian people in a referendum.

This ought to make those Prop 8 protesters look like cub scouts.

I’m always struck by Carter’s bitterness and nastiness. He brings NOTHING to any table and needs to keep quite. Every time he speaks he reaffirms that he is a complete ass.

What do you expect from a guy who gets attacked by a rabbit?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter_rabbit_incident

Carter = slime. This man (for lack of a better term) is one of the biggest embarrassments to America and the human race in general. How he can sleep at nights while spending his days supporting terrorists is beyond me?

Thank you, Jimmy (I love cold blodded killers) Carter.

@Mike’s America:

I saw the video on the evening news the night it happened, so I know it’s real. Rabbit swims up to the boat, and Carter swats at it with his fishing pole, rabbit swims away. Funny as all get-out. Proof positive that animals can instinctually recognize a predatory critter, even if it’s disquised as a president of the USA.

I think that Jimmy should just quietly go away. He was a joke as a president and he has maintained joke status as he gets older.

He is not so funny anymore.

Let us not forget: Jimmy was a one term President, just like fawning acolyte BO will be.

“They don’t make them any dumber than Jimmy.”

No, he isn’t dumb; he’s depraved.

He makes one wonder if he has been growing peanuts so long that his brain is now one.

Geez…He trusts Hamas! How dumb does one have to be to believe they can be trusted!

Yep, his brains HAVE turned into a peanut