Carter Pays Tribute to Terrorists
Via Little Green Footballs comes the following: The former president and his wife Rosalynn Carter laid a wreath on the tomb of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Ramallah. The wreath bore the words: “President and Mrs Carter.”
As if that’s not enough, there’s also this:
Former President Jimmy Carter embraced a leading Hamas figure Tuesday, according to participants in a meeting that infuriated Israeli officials already upset by Carter’s freelance Mideast peace mission…
At a reception in the West Bank town of Ramallah organized by Carter’s office, the former president hugged Nasser Shaer, a senior Hamas politician, meeting participants said. Embraces between men are a common custom in Arab culture.
“He gave me a hug. We hugged each other, and it was a warm reception,” Shaer told The Associated Press. “Carter asked what he can do to achieve peace between the Palestinians and Israel … and I told him the possibility for peace is high.”
To call this man a disgrace is a tremendous understatement. In the last couple of years, Carter has shown his true face; he’s more than willing to meet with terrorists. And he doesn’t just meet with them, he considers them to be jolly good fellows, friends even. Remember that Hamas is the same organization that commits suicide attacks as often as possible, that tries to kill as many Jews as it possibly can, and that says in its own charter that Israel has to be destroyed.
And Carter hugs its leaders.
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Remember that group of idiot far-lefties produced some kind of "I’m Sorry" video a few years back, which consisted of Americans looking at the camera and saying "I’m sorry" for the Afghanistan war or the Iraq war, or something they just didn’t like? Maybe those of us on the other side can produce a "I’m sorry for former-President Carter and his apologies for terrorists and murderers" video?
I wouldn’t say I really support Carter in this, but I’m also not sure that the traditional method of talking to our enemies only with air strikes and sanctions has really been working. If someone has to hug an ***hole so that in the future a lot (or even a few) less innocent people die, that seems just fine to me.
The question shouldn’t be of how nice Carter is being, nor how evil the person he’s being nice to is, but rather if these actions are beneficial to the Israeli and Palestinian people or not. I’m not sure they are, but I’m pretty sure the bluster and ad hominem attacks of your posts on the subject aren’t helping anyone.