Israel's UN ambassador calls Jimmy Carter 'a bigot'

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Israel's UN ambassador calls Jimmy Carter 'a bigot'

By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press Writer 4 minutes ago

Israel's ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday called former President Jimmy Carter "a bigot" for meeting with the leader of the militant Hamas movement in Syria.

Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, "went to the region with soiled hands and came back with bloody hands after shaking the hand of Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas," Ambassador Dan Gillerman told a luncheon briefing for reporters. The diplomat was questioned about problems facing his country during a wide-ranging discussion with reporters lasting more than an hour. The briefing was sponsored by The Israel Project, a Washington-based, media-oriented advocacy group.

The ambassador's harsh words for Carter came days after the ex-president met with Mashaal for seven hours in Damascus to negotiate a cease-fire with Gaza's Hamas rulers. Carter then called Mashaal on Monday to try to get him to agree to a one-month truce without conditions, but the Hamas leader rejected the idea.

The ambassador called last weekend's encounter "a very sad episode in American history." He said it was "a shame" to see Carter, who had done "good things" as a former president, "turn into what I believe to be a bigot."

that continue to fail Israel, the Middle East and the world.

Looking at these Ambassador's and 'spokepersons' one has to wonder what qualifies someone tol hold those posts.
This applies to most countries and many organizations.

that was blown up last September by the Israelis, that the US came out today with pictures of, but which was so "obliterated" that there is no evidence at this time to prove it? And any connection to the Condi Rice lies? No stone must be turned over, otherwise we may discover the truth...

Hmmm

Didn't you see the North Korean looking guy in the video wearing that Hard Rock Pyongyang T-shirt?

He gets too close to the truth and interferes with important secret matters between our government and the present government of Israel. So all these stories break on the same day? With pictures of a nuclear facility that no longer exists but don't ask how they got the pictures?? Or why they didn't tell us about it before today. Maybe we did not have the "need to know" until today??

for Chicken and Rice to find common ground for peace between Israel and Palestine, that will be a long wait.

Sadly, BO has spoken out against Carter and that reveals much about BO's knowledge of ME affairs and his desire for peace or lack thereof on both counts.

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... They try to intellectualize it by describing it as "conflating criticism of Zionism and criticism of Judaism", but it's easier to just say "fucking lying".

how can making laws supporting Zionism not be making laws supporting Judaism?

Those who make that claim are opening a door to even bigger issues when it comes to US support.

:P

Just mentioning them in less than boot-licking, subservient terms terms will get your post, ot the entire thread deleted.

Strangely, they don't seem to realize that this will be their undoing. The continued existence of Israel will measured in minutes without our backing, and they are ensuring that our support will be withdrawn as America looks inward and tries to deal with it's own problems.

:wtf:

Aren't the statements of the Israeli ambassador something like the pot calling the kettle black?

Regards

Corporatists don't like Carter

there is no money in peace

...i`m getting tired of this semite tribal warfare...

And it's worked out so well that now they control the Palestinian government. I don't exactly like Hamas but trying to de-legitimize them by classifying them as terrorists ain't working out so well.

  Come on, let us know how you really feel!

Next up: Yigal Amir released from prison just in time for Carter's visit to Rabin Square.

:eyes:

PB

Is that why the Likud Zionists hate him so much? Because they HATE peace?

And that's actually good, for anyone who dares to listen, they tell us straight up what they really think. Last week, former Prime Minister Netanyahu said these words:

"We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq,"

Nice to see someone's loss can be anther's gain. And of course, Iran is like Germany in the 30's:

"Speaking Wednesday at a news conference on the Iran threat, Netanyahu compared Ahmadinejad to Adolf Hitler and likened Tehran's nuclear program to the threat the Nazis posed to Europe in the late 1930s."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/975574.html

The present Regime of Israel is similar to the present Regime of the US. They both suck!

And let's hope he never is again!!!

The current government is an uneasy coalition, including people of various views ranging from some comparatively dovish types to Avigdor "nutcase" Lieberman.

Israel's UN ambassador is a moron.

on the planet. :puke: Go Jimmy!!

Only Bushco's environment would facilitate a climate where a so called diplomat would dare insult the former head of state.

I doubt anyone will even know this ambassador's name 10 years from now. No, make that five years from now.
Just another little self-important jerk-off who wants the US to keep the money flowing to Israel.
I'm in favor of turning off the spigot.

Not everyone who disagrees with some aspect of Israeli policy is automatically a raging Anti-Semite.

can plant his lips square on my rosy red ass.

:crazy:

Yes, it is apartheid
By Yossi Sarid (published in Haaretz)


The anchorwoman was clearly shocked: I don't have time now to respond to what you have said, she told the former U.S. president, allowing Jimmy Carter to make a narrow escape from her clutches. Then she added that she did not want to imagine what would happen to him if he bumped into her colleague from the security affairs desk in Channel 2's dark alley. And the pundit sitting there, sunk in deep thought as always, nodded his heavy head, confirming: He's lucky, the bastard, that we didn't gang up on him and cut him to shreds.

That's how it is here: The rulers set the tone, and the media begins to gripe: Not only did Carter's mission not help, it did damage. He alone was the reason Gilad Shalit was not ransomed out of captivity during the holiday. That's what happens when an enemy of the human race, the twin of the Twin Towers' bin Laden, sticks his nose where it does not belong.

Let's let old Carter be, so he may let sleeping warriors lie; he will not be back. The contents of his words, however, should not be ignored. "Apartheid," he said, "apartheid" - a dark, scary word coined by Afrikaners and meaning segregation, racial segregation.
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What does he want from us, that evil man: What do we have to do with apartheid? Does a separation fence constitute separation? Do separate roads for Jewish settlers and Palestinians really separate? Are Palestinian enclaves between Jewish settlements Bantustans?

There is no hint of similarity between South Africa and Israel, and only a sick mind could draw such shadowy connections between them. Roadblocks and inspections at every turn; licenses and permits for every little matter; the arbitrary seizure of land; special privileges in water use; cheap, hard labor; forming and uniting families by bureaucratic whim - none of these are apartheid, in any way. They are an incontrovertible security necessity, period.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/977947.html

only Israel has clean hands, in the crisis in the Middle East? Did you ever stop and think about the history of occupation of another territory ? When that occurs, sh!t happens! When Israel gets entirely out of the occupied land, only then will there be peace.


"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." - Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001, to Shimon Peres, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio.

Israel has many faults, and the Occupation should end; but Israel does *not* control America, or think it does.