President Carter Has Lost His Marbles

Just when you thought he couldn’t go any further off the deep end.

First the apartheid book.

Then his comments about Bush being the worst president in history of the U.S.

Given Carter’s foreign policy record, this is especially ironic.

Well, now Carter has this bit of wisdom:
Carter: Stop favoring Fatah over Hamas

The United States, Israel and the European Union must end their policy of favoring Fatah over Hamas, or they will doom the Palestinian people to deepening conflict between the rival movements, former US President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday.

Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was addressing a conference of Irish human rights officials, said the Bush administration’s refusal to accept the 2006 election victory of Hamas was “criminal.”

Carter said Hamas, besides winning a fair and democratic mandate that should have entitled it to lead the Palestinian government, had proven itself to be far more organized in its political and military showdowns with the Fatah movement of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

Hamas fighters routed Fatah in their violent takeover of the Gaza Strip last week. The split prompted Abbas to dissolve the power-sharing government with his rivals in Hamas and set up a Fatah-led administration to govern the West Bank.

Carter said the American-Israeli-European consensus to reopen direct aid to the new government in the West Bank, but to deny the same to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, represented an “effort to divide Palestinians into two peoples.”

While seeking to boycott the Hamas leadership for of its refusal to renounce violence and recognize Israel, Europe and the US have continued to send humanitarian aid to Gaza through the United Nations and other organizations.

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Our refusal to recognize a political party founded on hatred of Jews and violence against Israel is “criminal”? What sort of lunacy is this? To the best of my knowledge, the governments’ of every democratic country on the planet consider Hamas a terrorist organization. It is not only the U.S. and Israel. The IDF withdrew Israeli settlers from Gaza only to have Hamas terrorists fire rockets into Israeli. Hamas is not only unable to control these elements—which was Fatah’s excuse—it supports attacks against civilians as a matter of policy.