| Author | Message | | Guest | | Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 5:08 am Post subject: Jimmy Carter: "We're in bed with the Israelis." |
| From:
Al Geiersbach An AMERICAN for AMERICA Milwaukee WI USA
Subject: Carter bashes Bush Mideast policy, says US 'in bed' with Israel
Organization: Copyright 2002 by Agence France-Presse (via ClariNet) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:00:06 PDT
WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (AFP) - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter on
Monday accused President George W. Bush of abandoning the pursuit of Middle
East peace and said his administration was treating the Palestinians
unfairly by being "in bed" with Israel.
"We're doing very little," Carter said of Bush's peace attempts. "As a
matter of fact, this administration has basically abandoned any real effort
to bring about reconciliation between the Israelis and the Palestinians."
"We are completely committed to the Israelis," he said in an interview with
the Sky Radio Network, a service that provides audio business features to
six major US airlines, that was made available on Monday.
"We're in bed, you might say, with the Israelis and we won't even talk to
the leaders of the Palestinians," Carter said, referring to the Bush
administration's decision to sideline Yasser Arafat.
The former president, whose work in mediating a peace agreement between
Israel and Egypt while in office was noted on Friday in his Nobel Peace
Prize citation, said Bush was not now in a position to bring the two sides
to the table for talks.
"You have to be trusted by both sides ... you have to deal equally with
both sides, we're not doing that," Carter said, lamenting what he said was
the end of a nearly 30-year US commitment to Middle East peace.
"In effect, we have abandoned the effort that existed when I was president
and when Reagan was president and when Bush senior was president and
Clinton was president to bring peace to the Middle East," he said.
"I hope that eventually we will see the error of this procedure and get
back into a real mediation role," he added.
Carter's comments were released ahead of a trip to Washington this week by
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. | |  | | Guest | | | | Guest | | Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 8:17 am Post subject: |
| "Carter's comments were released ahead of a trip to Washington this week by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon."
This may come as a surprise to some, but Carter's comments don't really have much impact on a whole lot of people who have long memories of his one-man attempts to play center stage following his failure as a President. | | | | Guest | | Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 9:57 pm Post subject: Re: Jimmy Carter: "We're in bed with the Israelis." |
| | Anonymous wrote: | From:
Al Geiersbach An AMERICAN for AMERICA Milwaukee WI USA
Subject: Carter bashes Bush Mideast policy, says US 'in bed' with Israel
Organization: Copyright 2002 by Agence France-Presse (via ClariNet) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:00:06 PDT
WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (AFP) - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter on
Monday accused President George W. Bush of abandoning the pursuit of Middle
East peace and said his administration was treating the Palestinians
unfairly by being "in bed" with Israel.
"We're doing very little," Carter said of Bush's peace attempts. "As a
matter of fact, this administration has basically abandoned any real effort
to bring about reconciliation between the Israelis and the Palestinians."
"We are completely committed to the Israelis," he said in an interview with
the Sky Radio Network, a service that provides audio business features to
six major US airlines, that was made available on Monday.
"We're in bed, you might say, with the Israelis and we won't even talk to
the leaders of the Palestinians," Carter said, referring to the Bush
administration's decision to sideline Yasser Arafat.
The former president, whose work in mediating a peace agreement between
Israel and Egypt while in office was noted on Friday in his Nobel Peace
Prize citation, said Bush was not now in a position to bring the two sides
to the table for talks.
"You have to be trusted by both sides ... you have to deal equally with
both sides, we're not doing that," Carter said, lamenting what he said was
the end of a nearly 30-year US commitment to Middle East peace.
"In effect, we have abandoned the effort that existed when I was president
and when Reagan was president and when Bush senior was president and
Clinton was president to bring peace to the Middle East," he said.
"I hope that eventually we will see the error of this procedure and get
back into a real mediation role," he added.
Carter's comments were released ahead of a trip to Washington this week by
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. |
Just wondering if anyone was laughing at the reporting about ex-President Jimmy Carter winning the nobel prize on Channel 4, okay no great licks in it's self after all what credability can a peace prize have that awards it to Henry Kissenger. It was just that the over obsequious commentator describe Carter as being a peace broker in East Timor, this started a pulse in the old medula, because I had vague recollections of a genocide happenig in that very country, around the time of his tenure in office. I thought I look further into this and I found this interesting snippet on zmag.org by Sunhil Shama.
"Indeed by late 1977 the Indonesians literally began to run out of weapons in its campaign to destroy the Timorese. The Carter Administration stepped in and increased military aid and weapons sales to the Indonesians, which resulted in Indonesia’s stepped up campaigns of 1978 to 1980 when the level of killing reached genocidal levels."
So not content with distorting reportage on current events, they would rewrite history.
Still a least the Nobel Prize giving committee is consistent | | | | Guest | | | | *Mutt American | | Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 6:03 am Post subject: |
| | Arafat and Perez both got a peace prize. And members of the committee later expressed regret giving the prize to... PEREZ! | | | | | ©2002-2009 WarWithoutEnd.co.uk |
