JIMMY CARTER SAYS PALESTINIANS LIVE IN A “CAGE”
20. Oct, 2010
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By ALBERT AJI
Associated Press Writer
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, left, embraces former U.S. President Jimmy Carter as former Irish President Mary Robinson, right, looks on in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. Following a meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad, the Elders, an independent group founded in 2007 to support worldwide peace-making and challenge injustice, headed into a meeting with Mashaal. The Elders, who combined Carter, Robinson, former Algerian Foreign Minister Lakhdar Brahimi and Indian activist Ela Bhatt, are on a regional tour to promote peace talks between Israel and the Arabs.
Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that Palestinians are “living in a cage” in Gaza and that the militant group Hamas must be included in all major efforts for peace.
Carter was in Syria with an international group of veteran statesmen known as the Elders, which includes Ireland’s former President Mary Robinson.
“We believe that Hamas should be included in all the major efforts to peace … It is part of the Palestinian people,” Carter said. He added that “1.5 million Palestinians are held in a cage or prison while their human rights are taken away.”
Israel imposed its blockade of Gaza, a densely populated coastal strip along Israel’s southwest border, following Hamas’ violent takeover in June 2007. The rival Palestinian faction Fatah, led by Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, controls the West Bank.
Carter’s remarks came as reconciliation talks between the two Palestinian factions were postponed Tuesday.
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, left, shakes hands with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter as former Irish President Mari Robinson, right, looks on in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. Following a meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad, the Elders, an independent group founded in 2007 to support worldwide peace-making and challenge injustice, headed into a meeting with Mashaal. The Elders, consisting of Carter, Robinson, former Algerian Foreign Minister Lakhdar Brahimi and Indian activist Ela Bhatt, are on a regional tour to promote peace talks between Israel and the Arabs
Hamas did not give a reason for the postponement but said in a statement that Fatah officials have said they will not attend talks slated for Wednesday.
A Fatah official said they had suggested to Hamas the talks be held in Lebanon but the rivals insisted on Damascus. The Fatah official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, right, meets with members of the The Elders, the independent group of eminent global leaders, brought together by Nelson Mandela who offer their collective influence and experience to support peace building, help address major causes of human suffering and promote the shared interests of humanity. At centre left is former Irish President Mary Robinson, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, third left, Indian activist Ela Bhatt, second left and Algerian Foreign Minister Lakhdar Brahimi, in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010.
During a meeting in Syria last month, the factions announced they have agreed on steps to reconcile and they scheduled a meeting for this week in Damascus.
Hamas said a new date will be announced.
Deep divisions among Palestinian groups remain. On Tuesday, nine Damascus-based groups that oppose Abbas denounced his recent comments, which said Palestinians would be willing to end all historic claims against Israel if a Palestinian state is established on lands captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war.
The factions, including Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, said such remarks “pose a dangerous violation of all Palestinian rights.”
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I don’t want to believe that,Jimmy Carter along with other leaders will or can bring any good to the Palestinians.Its just a show business to kill valuable time and to divert attention of Palestinians from freedom through arm struggle to different dimension.
Peace can be established only through the withdrawal of occupation from the Palestinian land.
May ALLAH bless all the human being on earth.
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pete Reply:
April 18th, 2012 at 12:12 am
You are probably right old friend. It is disgusting to see our polaticians grovel before that crappy little country.We have sold our souls here in America for the proverbial thity pieces of silver.As far as peace ,Israel will never withdraw from the occupied territories. They just keep stealing arab land. Soon there will not be enough land left to build a palestinian state. And the west just sits back & are afraid to critizize the nazi state of Israel.To me this is acrime of the greatist magnitude.What have we fallen too America.
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Carter met with M. Begin…. http://100777.com/node/603
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pete Reply:
April 18th, 2012 at 12:02 am
bucktooth begin was a murderous piece of shit. He never even lived through the holocaust. He immigrated to palastine before ww2. I personaaly hope the worems are eating eyeballs. God,I detested that man. Sorry Elias but that is how I truly feel.
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@Fakhrul Ferdous
The real enemy of the Palestinians sits in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates – the perpetrators who buy US weapons, weapons they can’t even use.
Arabs and all Muslims Shia/Sunna must unite or they will be murdered.
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To: Holocaust Gaza
You are absolutely right.Thank you.
May ALLAH bless all the human being on earth.
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“… following Hamas’ violent takeover …”
HAMAS WAS DEMOCRATICLY ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF GAZA, IN THE 2006 ELECTIONS THAT WERE DECLARED FREE AND FAIR BY INTERNATIONAL MONITORS.
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