Here is the transcript of Jimmy Carter's speech in Gaza to graduates of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency schools, in which he said that the citizens of Gaza are being treated more like animals than human beings. It includes an appeal to Hamas to accept the state of Israel and, in its vision of a future, the suggestion of collaboration with Barack Obama:
Palestinians want more than just to survive. They hope to lead the Arab world, to be a bridge between modern political life and traditions that date back to the Biblical era. The nation you will create must be pluralistic and democratic – the new Palestine that your intellectuals have dreamt about. Palestine must combine the best of the East and the West. The Palestinian state, like the land, must be blessed for all people. Jerusalem must be shared with everyone who loves it – Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
With our new leaders in Washington, my country will move into the forefront of this birth of a new Palestine. We were all reminded of this renewed hope and commitment by President Obama's recent speech in Cairo.
President Obama's resolve to resume the Israeli-Palestinian diplomatic process based on the principle of two states for two peoples must be welcomed. This vision of two sovereign nations living as neighbors is not a mere convenient phrase. It is the basis for a lasting peace for this entire region, including Syria and Lebanon.
We all know that a necessary step is the ending of the siege of Gaza – the starving of 1 ½ million people of the necessities of life. Never before in history has a large community been savaged by bombs and missiles and then deprived of the means to repair itself.
All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when... the Holy Land of the three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra -- (applause) -- as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer.
And Zionist founder Theodor Herzl, in an exchange at the Vatican with Cardinal Secretary of State del Val in 1903:
del Val: "How... can we agree to [Jews'] regaining possession of the Holy Land?"
Herzl: "We are asking only for the profane earth; the Holy Places are to be extraterritorialized."
Herzl frequently made this promise, beginning in 1896.
Carter's words are beautiful, moving and powerful. Imagine his audience — the children of Palestine who have nothing but . . . the audacity of hope. These are children who will not be allowed to attend American schools on scholarships because Israel refuses to give them visas (frightened, perhaps, that higher education may breed another Edward Said?). Coupled with the earlier report on mondoweiss from Helena Cobban that Carter's first order of business was to report back to George Mitchell . . . wow, man, perchance to dream. Obama wants to change the world, and Israel better not get in the way.
It tells us a lot about Israel supporters that they deride Jimmy Carter – a man that speaks so much sense. I invite any of them to find a fault in what he said.
God, the witness who can't be called.
there will ALWAYS be an excuse why an occupation is protecting its occupiers in numbers vast and wide streaming the airwaves with how diversified the society is and the audacity after campaigns such as "never again" we have the right to protect our occupiers is just…crazyness when not to expect rockets or anyother means to maintain or take back property a bit at a time, there seems to be no effort to pay and buy like ordinary people transact a sale of property. It and reparations would be far too easiy for the occupiers to do and just down right moral in thew least of what an onslaught can be after 55+ years.
The following the american indians line for the reason to continue the occupations onslaught and completely egnor any and all laws of resolutions passed and never carried out to the american indians which 200+ years ago was our bad past or at least a part of it anyhow. I believe the reparations to the blacks for the slavery as well, it is only ink and paper mainly it will not flood the economy but actually help.The indians is not in my view a real comparison unless it is a moraless base from which it is looked at in the first place. the occupation will end completely but at what cost..the 18 million + displaced killed and driven off by force with the help of the usa and britian among others. Whom are the bad guys
Carter's POV is so obvious in the language of the most humanist part of all religions (the only part they have in common) it is killed, over and over again. What does this mean in terms of real politics? What does this mean in terms of the net effect of any traditional religion?
Carter can only believe
if he has no genuine understanding of the nature of Zionism. After a few somewhat irrelevant introductory paragraphs, Palestinian Dream, Zionist Hasbara, America describes the threat that Zionism represents to American.
sorry, Thors, did u respond to the question?
President Carter is a great manm a man with soul.
President Carter is a great man, a man with soul and understanding
Heres a new videoof Gilad Atzmon talking about AIPAC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgRa2rv9x3E It will probably skimp through Zion watch Blumenthal's video was withdrawn for "violation of services contract" What was that?
Sorry, probably I should have pointed directly to the Fighting the Dystopic Future section. Two states simply does not do anything as long as the whole web of Zionist control remains and Jews refuse to show acknowledge, remorse, contrition and atonement for the myriads of crimes that have grown out of Jewish culture and politics since the 1850s. Israeli Zionists will simply repeat the atrocities that we are seeing right now, and the looting of the world economic system will continue (as it obviously is thanks to the Zionist clique to whom Obama has entrusted the economy). I cannot emphasize too much how almost complete responsibility for the financial/world economic mess lies with corrupt Jewish social networking system, whose keystone is the State of Israel: Chop Shop Economics and Stealth Zionism. It may seem cruel, but it is much more important to clawback the $5-6 trillion which the Israel Lobby as the public face of the Zionist imperial system has defrauded from the USA than it is to worry about the two state solution. At that point the USA will be financially healthy and the Lobby will be emasculated. Then eliminating the Zionist problem in the ME will be easy.
I find two faults with it. 1) It is utterly unconnected with reality and 2) Carter's generosity with another country's capital. "The nation you will create must be pluralistic and democratic – the new Palestine that your intellectuals have dreamt about. Palestine must combine the best of the East and the West. The Palestinian state, like the land, must be blessed for all people." This to a people that routinely persecutes Christians and murders gays. It makes a nice speech, but it isn't going to happen. The Palestinians are on their way to creating (if Israel lets them) another despotic theocracy, just like so many in the M.E. As to sharing Jerusalem with everyone who loves it, since the 6 day war, when Israel took East Jerusalem, Jews, Christians, and Muslims have been allowed to go there, which you could not say about that half of the city when the Arabs had it from 1948 to 1967. As for letting the Arabs have sovereignty, sure, as soon as the U.S. gives half of Washington DC to the Taliban.
Wow, yet another raving lunatic "Jewish conspiracy" site. Not quite to the level of Barbara L's but "Judonia"? Is that anything like "Fredonia" other than both being figments of someone's imagination? Birds of a feather Phil and Adam. You are attracting these whackjobs for a reason.
Carter is a dupe for dictators. He was surprised that Brezhnev lied to him about the invasion of Afghanistan. He apparently still hasn't gotten any better about detecting the falsity of honeyed words from leaders of murderous regimes. He is was a fool to believe Brezhnev's lies and he is a fool to believe Hamas's lies.
The good news is he never fell for AIPAC's lies. And unlike them, he always puts America first.
I prefer to think of myself as a rogue Jewish studies expert. Anyone in E. European studies will tell you that conspiracy is an intrinsic part of E. European politics. Why should E. European Jews have been different from E. European non-Jews? We now have much more access to Soviet archives and we find that ethnic Ashkenazi Americans were tremendously involved in Soviet subversion throughout Eastern, Central and Western Europe as well as throughout N. America. Why should E. European Zionist Jews be any different from E. European Communist Jews? I explain the term Judonia in Introduction: The Virtual Colonial Motherland as Political Innovation. It has a completely respectable model in Polonia, and in 1896 Kautsky even wrote a famous essay entitled "Finis Poloniae." The NY Times used the term in 1887. Obviously we have a problem in the USA, and the first step is admitting to ourselves that the nation and the human race is threatened by a vast Jewish Zionist conspiracy, whose keystone is the State of Israel and whose efforts are directed to looting the world economic system.
The bad news is that he thinks America's allies are lying and that America's enemies are telling the truth, when the opposite is true. Other than Bush, Carter is the worst president the U.S. has had since Hoover.
Bush is the worst president by far. He got us into two wars, destroyed our economy for a generation, and turned the Arab world against us by supporting Likud policies in Israel and neocon ones at home. On top of everything he pushed no-income mortgage verificiation and -down loans for deadbeat borrowers which blew trillions in retirement income for people who actually work for a living.
You aren't an expert on anything. You are a loony Syrian-descended Arab with crazed Islamo-fascist race-theories you have invented yourself. You aren't getting any prizes for any of this. I bet you can't even figure out why.
The blundering errors people post here!!! Bush wasn't pursuing LIkud policies because, for one thing, Likud wasn't in power. Bush didn't turn the Arab world against us; the Arabs have ALWAYS hated the USA. The 9/11 mass-murderers were training to fly Jumbos when BILL CLINTON was president. They didn't cook up 9/11 before the elections… Carter still has my vote for worst pres. And he's such a moron.. and still is…
Correction: 9/11 WAS cooked up before the elections. I meant that they couldn't have cooked it up after the elections…. Flight training and their logistics took toolong, I thin it wa 2-3 years altogether… from mid Clinton administration… Don't blame bush. Blame Clinton. P.S. In 5 years from now, you will be blaming Hussein-Obama, who is repeating Clinton's mistakes, only worse.
Nice coherent reply. If Daniel Pipes can spin conspiracy theories, so can I. From Saudia in the Gun Sights
While Pipes is simply accusing Arabs of acting like Zionists in order to distract from the Zionist threat, my approach represents a significant new way of looking at nation-state development and dovetails with the ideas of Harvard Researcher Dr. Thomas Hegghammer about transnational politics. I have also looked through several libraries worth of research materials while Pipes is blowing smoke.
I myself find it irritating that Americans tend to say likud or likudnik when they really mean Revisionist or Jabotinskian Zionist.
Carter can give them his peanut farm and they can call it Jerusalem. Carter was a one term loser as president. It's very hard to lose with the advantage of incumbency, but he found a way.
Bush supported the settlements, allowed Israel to build and keep settlements outside the green line, supported, repeated incursions into the West Bank and the war in Lebanon. It makes no difference who was in power. Those Likud policies were supported both this country and in Israel. Bush called the Butcher of Sabra and Chatila "a man of peace." As for the Arab world always being against us, it just isn't true. For decades the US had good relations with the Arab world. Even as late as 9-11 the US had the sympathy of many in the Arab world. Even Arafat expressed his sympathy. And Bush blew all that good will and our fortunes on endless wars in the Middle East. Well, screw that.
It's not another country's capital, it never was the Israeli capital. And why is it unconnected with reality? This to a people that routinely persecutes Christians and murders gays. It makes a nice speech, but it isn't going to happen. The Palestinians are on their way to creating (if Israel lets them) another despotic theocracy, just like so many in the M.E. Really? Tell that to the Palestinian Christians. As to sharing Jerusalem with everyone who loves it, since the 6 day war, when Israel took East Jerusalem, Jews, Christians, and Muslims have been allowed to go there, which you could not say about that half of the city when the Arabs had it from 1948 to 1967. As for letting the Arabs have sovereignty, sure, as soon as the U.S. gives half of Washington DC to the Taliban. That analogy makes no sense whatsoever. Seeing as the Arabs having East Jerusalem was always the plan, it's kinda hard for you to deny them that.
Bush managed to turn a world sympathetic to the US (post 9/11) into a world that hated the US' guts, in three short years. I think the vast majority of us will stick with Bush as the worst President in US history.
Yeah, Carter bribed Egypt and Jordan to make peace with Israel. What a moron. And, together with Israel's annual dole, what a waste of US taxpayer money–for how many years now?
That chintzy movie Israel made to sell arms to India is hilarious: Dinga, dinga dee. Atzmon mentioned how the Jews got one powerful state after another to support it, and now Israel is casting about for a new sucker in case AIPAC is defanged: India. He could have also mentioned Israel has been buttering up Putin, saying Russia is demonized by the World for its handling of internal affairs same as poor Israel.
Israel Military Industries have had ALL their weapons contracts suspended with India. I wonder if the chintzy video played a part in that decision making? I think Atzmon's lone star reputation will gain a following! In an accelerating sling shot manner! As time passes his views will appear more mainstream – to Zionists and Israelis. You mean Lieberman buttering up? I think Russia is the number one weapons supplier to India, and Israel number two, the mind boggles at what alliances could be formed… Unfortunately I posted the youtube link in the wrong post, (thought I was in the post about Google censorship). Please post the link wherever you can.
The great tragedy is that other former presidents don't speak out the way Jimmy Carter does.
That you are a crazed racist and annoying even to 'self-respectable' racists gets demonstrated every time you post something here. Don't stop now. You don't have enough enemies yet…
Nearly 1,000 people were killed in Sabra and Chatilla. The person you seem to be calling "the butcher of S and C" didn't kill anyone and wasn't even there. Christian Lebanese were taking revenge against Moslem murderers who had massacred Christians before. Do we have to go through this every time? Do you comprehend nothing? Arafat did not express sympathy over 9/11. The Palestineans were having wild parties in the street when the American Devil was getting beaten by Brave Islamic Fighters. Arafat was afraid their partying would cost him money. If the Arabs had good relations with the US, why did they declare war and use their "oil weapon" to attack and hurt the plainly capitalist USA? YOU are paying for all those harems and flying solid-gold bathtubs. The guys who are cheating you are your friends? I wouldn't want to meet your enemies…
You are as ignorant of history as Hussein-Obama. Did you get to vote for him?
Try telling that to the populations of every state other than Israel and the US
The Christian Lebanese hating Israel more than they hate the Muslims tells you a lot. And please, carry on with your attempts at historical revisionism, they really are quite amusing.
It's funny hearing that from you, seeing as YOU'RE one of the only racists on this blog.