Jimmah Cahtah: Don’t Be A Menace To Hamas
There are some people out there who just don’t know when to shut their malodorous pie hole. Fat obnoxious lesbians who act like they have a degree in steel melting. Paris Hilton whining “it’s not right” in a courtroom on her way back to jail.
Or, more to the point, Jimmy Carter endorsing Hamas. In his own words:
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.”
A-frickin’-mazing.This coming from the crowd that runs around with bumper stickers and t-shirts saying “Don’t blame me, I voted for Kerry” in the aftermath of the 2004 presidential election.
The election that put Hamas into power was indeed democratic, in that a majority of Palestinian voters did vote for Hamas candidates. Big frickin’ deal. There is nothing in international law, or for that matter, in Palestinian election law, that forbids us to draw the consequences of such an election, and therefore to react to it according to our national interest. And this may be fresh news to people like the Wise Peanut of Jihad, but here it is, in words that he can understand: Palestininian voters putting a terrorist organization that includes not only a refusal to recognize, but to eradicate Israel in its charter is NOT in our best national interest.
During his speech to Ireland’s eighth annual Forum on Human Rights, the 83-year-old former president said monitors from his Carter Center observed the 2006 election in which Hamas won 42 percent of the popular vote and a majority of parliamentary seats.
Carter said that election was “orderly and fair” and Hamas triumphed, in part, because it was “shrewd in selecting candidates,” whereas a divided, corrupt Fatah ran multiple candidates for single seats.
Far from encouraging Hamas’s move into parliamentary politics, Carter said the US and Israel, with European Union acquiescence, has sought to subvert the outcome by shunning Hamas and helping Abbas to keep the reins of political and military power.
“That action was criminal,” he said in a news conference after his speech.
“The United States and Israel decided to punish all the people in Palestine and did everything they could to deter a compromise between Hamas and Fatah,” he said.
Here’s one thing I can’t help but notice: nowhere in any of the quotes I use in this post, or in the entire article these quotes are pulled from, does Uncle Jimmah come up with one good reason based on its political platform to explain Hamas’ victory as a basis for dealing with them. His only explanation for why we should now accept them as bona fide political players: they did a better job of selecting candidates. Well, to be completely honest, he makes a decent point: No Hamas candidate ever said “I agreed to kill as many Jews as possible after I disagreed to.” No flip-flopping there. (Ummmm, John Kerry, how does it feel to have run a worse political strategy than a Hamas thug?) You see, we should recognize Hamas and treat them like any other political party carried to to a leadership position not because they’re a bunch of murderous thugs who have throughout the years literally bribed and brainwashed the Palestinian population into being their tools of mayhem and murder, but we should dutifully recognize them because they are politically savvy murderous thugs who have throughout the years literally bribed and brainwashed the Palestinian population into being their tools of mayhem and murder.
Subtle difference, in a moral relativistic kind of way, ain’t it?
What is criminal is not the necessary and logical American and (gasp) European reaction to the ultimate mainstreaming of a terrorist group by a group of people who have been fed a steady dose of despair, corruption, violence and hate, as Carter would have us believe. What is criminal is Carter’s gut-wrenching willingness to prostitute the very meaning of the word “terrorism” by condoning Hamas’ rise to power while, at the same time, paying vacuous lip service to principles of peace, justice, and understanding. The old opportunist described by the left as a tireless fighter for a better world seems to lay his arms down might fast when it come to really confronting the problems of this world.
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Posted by RagingAnura on June 21, 2007 11:50 am
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I think President Carter is concerned that we may be going againsts our own priciples of
democracy, freedom, and justice.
Matt,
Our own principles of democracy and justice aren’t worth a peanut (pun intended) if the people or institutions we deal with do not recognize them beyond empty speeches.
Refusing to entertain relationships with people who are self-avowedly our enemies is a right and a principle we should use whenever necessary. Such is the case now.
RagingAnura,
I think democracy, freedom, and justice are worth a great deal.
Since Hamas was fairly elected, we should work out our differences with them
instead of ignoring the will of their people. We need to stand on our principles to gain
their respect and trust and avoid their wrath. Their wrath is counter productive to our
interests. Everyone has both seeds of violence and seeds of reason in them. If we
employ provocative measures it will invoke their seeds of violence. By staying true
to our principles we will command their respect and bring out their ability to reason.
Nonviolent and nonprovocative actions require courage and patience but they bring results.
Violence has been used in that region for too long and nothing but misery comes of it.
Perhaps only the arms dealers like the situation there.
If JIMMY CARTER were lost at sea and a shark bit him it would end up with the taate of peanut butter in its mouth