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 Jimmy Carter on Peace in the Middle EastPosted on Jan 27, 2009
What’s that you say, Jimmy Carter? Peace in the Middle East is possible? The former president paid a visit to “The Daily Show” Monday night to advance this bold thesis—and to describe what it was like to mingle with Bill Clinton, two Bushes and Obama at the White House. How ’bout that Oval Office rug, gents? Comedy Central: Part 1: Part 2:
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By Inherit The Wind, January 30, 2009 at 8:59 am Link to this comment
Robert, January 28 at 4:35 pm #
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Sue Cook said..
“Why won’t this guy just go away!
He had his shot at the presidency and blew it.
It’s like he’s trying to mend his sorry legacy by doing now what he should have done while in office.
Unfortunetly for him, nobody cares!”
Speak for yourself. I join with the others who believe he is one of the best leaders this country has.
He has played many roles behind the scenes that have improved the lives of many. What a stupid statement to make…
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Robert, you are wrong as usual….
No, scratch that! (scratch, scratch, scratch—sorry, saying Robert was wrong was an autonomic reflex…:) )
Robert, for once (and this may be the only time), I have to say I agree with you 100%.
Now pick your jaw up off the floor, wipe the coffee off the screen from the spit-take, and enjoy the moment. It may never happen again.
So I’ll repeat it: Robert, I agree with you completely. I think Jimmy Carter is an impressive individual and a far-sighted and far-thinking visionary President who happened to be lousy at politics and too honest at the worst possible moment.
Report thisBy Fadel Abdallah, January 30, 2009 at 6:26 am Link to this comment
The ugly Zionists, enemies of the Truth, are raising hell against 60 Minutes for the segment in the link below, in which it exposes Israel’s apartheid, brutality and savagery!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYAgyv2MKyI&feature; =email
Report thisBy diamond, January 29, 2009 at 1:17 pm Link to this comment
There was a better interview than this. Margaret Warner on ‘McNeil Lehrer’ tried to tell Jimmy Carter that Hamas came to power in a coup. Jimmy wasn’t having it. He told her bluntly that Hamas was elected fair and square but that Abbas’s ‘government’ in the West Bank was completely illegal. How is it possible that a journalist who is supposed to inform the public doesn’t know that Hamas was elected and that Fatah attempted to stage a coup and was driven out of Gaza by Hamas? Is it ignorance or is it deceit? The mainstream media displaying deceit? Couldn’t be!
Report thisBy nefertiti, January 29, 2009 at 11:58 am Link to this comment
why do US politicians Come forward and start sounding compassionate towards the Palestinian cause when they become useless (or almost like carter now ) ? I wish he did something while he was a president .
Report thisBy Hank Van den Berg, January 29, 2009 at 5:09 am Link to this comment
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Stewart’s worst interview ever. He did Israel’s bidding by talking nonsense with Carter, effectively undermining Carter’s message about Palestine. My admiration for John Stewart fell by about half with this interview. Terrible.
There is so much to say about Palestine and the recent Israeli murder of 1,500 Gazans. Why does Steqart want to sweep this under the rug like the rest of the corrupt or intimidated U.S. press?
Report thisBy diamond, January 29, 2009 at 12:50 am Link to this comment
Mr. Gurfinkel did you take a pill that deletes all logic from your brain? The people who lived in South Africa were all South Africans- some of them were black and some of them were white, that’s all. The entire history and logic of the situation between Israel and the Palestinians is different. You know this only too well and the comparison is completely invalid. You will do anything to deny that the Palestinians need their own state and you will apply any tortured logic or illogic to prove that giving the Palestinians their own state is an injustice. An injustice to who? To the Palestinians? Maybe you should have a referendum and ask the Palestinians what they think. Now let’s consider this carefully - do they want to live in the ruins of Gaza and be methodically starved to death and deprived of medical treatment because there are no drugs because the Israelis won’t let them through? Do they want to be locked up in an open air prison where the Israelis can fly over like God almighty and pick them off as if they were geese? Do they want to be murdered in their beds because Israel doesn’t like how they voted? Or do they want to rule themselves, be safe from Israeli attack and oppression, have their own armed forces, and their own state? Tough choice. Which way would the vote go? Such suspense. You know damn well what the answer would be. As for apartheid: the situation of Muslims in Israel is apartheid, pure and simple. Israel is a racist, intolerant state run by the secret police and the army.But Jimmy Carter is that rare thing, a former US President who is also an intelligent and moral man. More power to his arm.
Report thisBy Robert, January 28, 2009 at 4:35 pm Link to this comment
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Sue Cook said..
“Why won’t this guy just go away!
He had his shot at the presidency and blew it.
It’s like he’s trying to mend his sorry legacy by doing now what he should have done while in office.
Unfortunetly for him, nobody cares!”
Speak for yourself. I join with the others who believe he is one of the best leaders this country has.
He has played many roles behind the scenes that have improved the lives of many. What a stupid statement to make…
Report thisBy writeon, January 28, 2009 at 1:55 pm Link to this comment
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We have to try to look at the problem rationally and calmly, though after something like the onslaught on Gaza it gets harder and harder.
There isn’t just demographic timebomb ticking away. Already, inside Israel, about 20% of the population are Palestinians. Because of their high birthrate, in couple, max as few decades they will probably become the largest ethnic group in Israel. This is the democratic timebomb. How will Israel’s Jewish majority, those who beleive in Israel as a Jewish state, those Zionists, who after all created a Jewish state, how will they deal with a Palestinian majority? Can Israel survive as a democracy when its character is ‘threatened’ in this way?
The far-right in Israel want to drive the remaining Palestinians out of the country, for good, one way or another. This, of course, is a recipe for disaster. Ethinic cleansing on such a scale is impossible without terrible consequences. Arguably such a policy would bring down all the pro-Western regimes in the entire region, replaced by radical revolutionaries ready to go to war to protect their Palestinian brothers. Israel would pay an enormous price for such a reckless, inhuman and illegal course. So the stakes are very high.
But if one can’t drive the Palestinians out, if one cant’ make them disappear, what can one do? One could decide not to give them equal rights as citizens inside Israel, because they are not deemed loyal to Israel, but how realistic is that? Could Israel really deny half the population the vote?
Realistically Israel doesn’t have choice. It cannot seek to dominate all the land from the Jordan to the sea, their simply aren’t enough Jews for that and too many Arabs. So Israel has to withdraw to its 1967 borders and quickly, before it’s too late, because already there’s a Palestinian majority inside the occupied territories and Israel. The idea of a Greater Israel, is crazy fantasy that threatens Israel’s future.
But even this withdrawal still leaves the democratic timebomb ticking. How will Israel deal with the Palestinians inside Israel?
If one is brutally honest, the Zionist dream of creating a ethnically pure Jewish state in Palestine and trying to ignore that another people, the Palestinians, were already there and had no intention of leaving to make way for the Jewish state, was always highly problematic and fraught with problems and danger. For how long can a minority, the Israelis, hope to impose their will on the Palestinian majority? Israel’s policies don’t make sense and like all policies based on irrationality they are doomed to fail over the long-run.
Report thisBy Russian Paul, January 28, 2009 at 11:47 am Link to this comment
You can reach the Daily Show here.
http://www.comedycentral.com/help/questionsCC.jhtml
Report thisBy Russian Paul, January 28, 2009 at 11:08 am Link to this comment
This interview was a dissapointment. Jon Stewart spoke the truth about Israel about three weeks ago, for 5 minutes. Ever since then, he has played it safe, probably responding to pressure from above.
Just look at this statement - “A rocket goes here, a settlement goes there…it seems too easy for radical elements on both sides to submarine the peace…”
He is spinning the story in the same manner the other TV networks do! Which is exactly what his show is supposed to be making fun of!
After he spoke out on Israel, there was a letter going around telling people to write him a letter of thanks. I think now would be an appropriate time for everyone to write him a letter of dissapointment…
Report thisBy Sue Cook, January 28, 2009 at 10:55 am Link to this comment
Why won’t this guy just go away!
Report thisHe had his shot at the presidency and blew it.
It’s like he’s trying to mend his sorry legacy by doing now what he should have done while in office.
Unfortunetly for him, nobody cares!
By Fadel Abdallah, January 28, 2009 at 8:12 am Link to this comment
Watch the following segment from the CBS 60 Minutes Exposing Israeli Apartheid and its crimes and violations of basic human rights! And you will learn about the real obstacles to peace in the Palestine/ the Middle East!
Report thishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYAgyv2MKyI&feature; =email
By Allan Gurfinkle, January 28, 2009 at 7:59 am Link to this comment
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If Carter had supported the two state solution in South Africa, he would have been correctly condemned as an imperialist and a racist. Yet, he proposed a two state solution for Palestine and is hailed as a great humanitarian. Go figure.
Report thisBy Nozferatu, January 27, 2009 at 10:43 pm Link to this comment
Indeed….Carter is a good guy. Probably one of the more moral people leading this morally bankrupt country.
Report thisBy Fadel Abdallah, January 27, 2009 at 5:52 pm Link to this comment
Jimmy Carter is a breed apart! A true noble human being among the savages and half-savages that ruled the U.S. since my fate brought me to this land that I call home now.
He is a true man of peace and sublime humanity unmatched in modern human history. Yet, despite all what he did for Israel- by bringing it peace with Egypt and Jordan- he was torn apart and labeled with the worst words the fanatic Zionists reserve for their worst enemies by calling him anti-Semitic when he spoke the simple evident truths in his book “Palestine: Peace not Apartheid.”
If you need to find a modern proverbial example of the savages that bite the hands that fed them, then you have the sickly Zionists versus the noble Carter! A story that needs to be written as an epic for future generation about extreme nobility versus extreme savagery and ingratitude!
Report thisBy jon, January 27, 2009 at 5:08 pm Link to this comment
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interesting how the Israeli flag is framed behind Pres. Carter’s head…a la the two “crosses” behind Bush during his final speech to the country…
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