From Fox New:
Former US President Jimmy Carter, seen here in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, is visiting the battle-scarred Palestinian territory after urging Israel to lift a blockade on the enclave and stop treating its residents like "savages.” Carter to Obama: Remove Hamas From Terror List
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Former President Jimmy Carter will urge the Obama administration to remove Hamas from the terrorist list, FOX News has learned.
Carter, a chief defender of the U.S.-designated terror group, said Tuesday he will meet with officials in the Obama administration in two days to discuss his latest trip to the Middle East.
Meanwhile, two Palestinian sources told FOX News that the group had discovered two roadside bombs planted near a crossing between Israel and Gaza on a path Carter’s convoy took to meet with the group’s leaders.
Carter was granted special waivers by the U.S. Secret Service allowing him to enter Gaza. Employees of the U.S. executive branch are not allowed into the strip since a roadside bomb killed three U.S. security personnel in 2003…
Carter said he feels personally responsible that American weapons were used to fight in Gaza Strip last year, when Israeli Defense Forces entered the strip to stop the launch of rockets from there into Israel…
According to two eyewitnesses, including a 15-year-old boy, the bombs were intended to hit Carter’s vehicle as he exited Gaza. There is some suspicion that Hamas extremists linked to Al Qaeda may be behind the attempt.
The boy told FOX News he saw three Palestinian men planting bombs, four of which were later found near a mound less than a mile from the Israel-Gaza border. The boy said he notified Hamas police, who detonated the bombs and took the three men into custody.
But Hamas aren’t terrorists.
Not at all.
Meanwhile, Reuters is reporting his musings from the Gaza strip:
Carter says Gaza Palestinians treated like animals
Tue Jun 16, 2009
GAZA (Reuters) – Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are being "treated more like animals than human beings," former U.S. president Jimmy Carter said on Tuesday.
On a visit to the enclave, he condemned Israel’s January bombardment of Gaza and its continuing trade blockade, which he said forbids even children’s toys.
"I understand that even paper and crayons are treated as a security hazard," he told Gazans at a local United Nations office. "I sought an explanation of this when I met with Israeli officials and I received none, because there is no explanation." …
He ignored a U.S. government ban on dealings with Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas and had talks with its leaders…
Carter, a Democrat, said he had seen for himself there had been almost no reconstruction in Gaza over the past five months.
"Never before in history has a large community like this been savaged by bombs and missiles and then been deprived of the means to repair itself," he said.
And more from the Deutsche Presse Agentur:
Carter says ‘holding back tears’ inspecting Gaza damage
16 June 2009
GAZA CITY – Former US President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday he was dismayed when inspecting the devastation caused by Israel’s 22-day offensive in Gaza last winter.
“I have to hold back tears when I see the deliberate destruction that has been raged against your people,” he told reporters at the destroyed International American School in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia, hit in an Israeli airstrike…
Of course what Mr. Carter is saying and doing is beyond anything that can be explained by mere ignorance and naivety.
His rabid anti-Semitism has poisoned his mind and turned him into an enemy of Israel and the United States.
He ignored a U.S. government ban on dealings with Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas and had talks with its leaders.
Why hasn’t he been prosecuted?
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