I've got to hand it to our worst president and ex-president: just when I think he couldn't become any more of a pathetic, dictator-coddling, appeasement-craving old fool, he finds yet another way to kiss up to thugs and terrorists:
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 then goes on to praise the "skill and discipline" of Hamas' militias. Yeah, like the skill and discipline they showed last week when tossing people from buildings, or slaughtering husbands and fathers in front of their wives and children. Carter decries as "criminal" a refusal to deal with an organization that has in their charter a clause demanding the destruction of Israel and ethnic cleansing against the Jews. According to Jimmy, the troubles in the Middle East are all the fault of the West and those annoying Jews.
Carter's ignorance and his need to cozy-up to fascists is just astounding. He truly is America's worst ex-president. We should be grateful he was president for only one term.
LINKS: Ed Morrissey is also aghast at Carter's statement, and offers another example of Hamas' skill and discipline. More at Little Green Footballs and Power Line, which provides video of how a former president's slanders against his own country were covered on Irish TV. Gaius at Blue Crab Boulevard just wishes Jimmy would shut up and go away -- preferably out of the country. Not a bad idea.
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