I was looking through the online NY Times this morning so I could know what was going on in the world, when I noticed a topic near and dear to my heart right on the front page. Jimmy Carter talking to Hamas.
Ok. A few things come to mind here. Some good, some bad. I'll start with the good, and I have about 10 minutes to communicate this, so I'm sorry if it's unclear.
The good: Jimmy Carter has a history of doing things like this, and while people fling him crap for his foreign policy while he was president, he tried, and I feel like he had something (or someone) working against him. Yeah. I'm a bit of a conspiracy theorist.
I feel bad for the Palestinians, and I think someone needs to advocate their position. Whatever God's plan is in this, they still need love, because he created them and loves them just as much as anyone. I'm glad someone seems to be (I suspect there's some political motive on the part of whichever candidate he is supporting [Obama?] who said at the beginning of his candidacy that he would be open to talks with anyone regardless of affiliation) loving them and interested in what they want.
The bad: I am by no means a fan of George Bush (there, I said it,) but I would like to know under what political authority Carter is acting, and as such what legitimacy his remarks actually have.
Carter is saying that Hamas would agree to the 1967 borders if approved by a vote amongst the Palestinian people.
Question: how does someone organize that? You have (last I checked) two separate Palestinian states as well as Israel itself. And they can't agree on anything anyway. How in the WORLD are you going to cover every (maybe not...) ethnic Palestinian in this vote? And even if you can organize it, what happens if the Palestinian vote doesn't agree with the 1967 borders? You now have an even more emboldened Hamas, working with a "mandate of the people."
Carter was President for awhile. That merit alone means he knows WAY more than I do. He knows what he's doing, but this seriously just looks like election season remarks against the Establishment. My guess is it's political.
I'll post something actually worth reading later today. Hopefully it doesn't amount to wasted bandwidth.
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actually he founded the Carter Center which is a humanitarian service deicated to human rights and solving conflicts (hence his involvement here) heres the website for more: http://www.cartercenter.org/homepage.html
I only know about this because he referenced it in his interview about the possibility of an Olympic boycot
For whatever it's worth, check out what Joel Rosenberg has to say about former President Jimmy Carter and his current involvement with Hamas. . .
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