Is Carter selling out to terrorist seduction

Former US President Jimmy Carter on Monday said that following a meeting with the Hamas leadership in Damascus late last week, he can confidently announce that Hamas truly desires peace with Israel. The premature claim was almost immediately rebuffed by Hamas.

Speaking at an event hosted by the Israel Council on Foreign Relations, Carter asserted that Hamas is prepared to accept a Palestinian Arab state in Gaza and the West Bank and Israel’s right to exist in the rest of the land west of the Jordan River.

The self-styled peace envoy said that Hamas’ top leadership had assured him that it would accept such a solution to the conflict if approved by a majority of Palestinians in a referendum.

Having established Hamas’ willingness to make peace, Carter went on to imply that the only obstacle remaining was Israel’s unwillingness to hold talks with the terror group.

However, almost immediately after Carter spoke, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told reporters that the American had apparently gotten ahead of himself, or misinterpreted statements by the Hamas leadership to fit his own agenda.

Hamas, said Abu Zuhri, was indeed prepared to allow a referendum on a two-state solution, but made no guarantees that it would accept the results.

And that, of course, is the primary reason Israel will not consider including Hamas in peace talks.

WHAT CARTER FAILED TO MENTION ABOUT HAMAS!

When former US President Jimmy Carter announced on Monday that he had managed to lay the foundations for peace by getting Hamas to agree to recognize and live side by side with Israel, he failed to mention that the terror group’s offer was a temporary one.

Speaking at a meeting of Israel’s Council on Foreign Relations following a weekend jaunt to visit the Hamas leadership in Damascus, Carter enthusiastically stated that Hamas leader Khaled Mashal had told him the leading Palestinian faction was prepared to accept a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank, and to recognize Israel’s sovereignty on the rest of the territory west of the Jordan River.

Carter went on to imply that the only remaining obstacle to peace was Israel’s refusal to talk with Hamas.

What the former president left out, and what Mashal revealed when speaking to reporters in Damascus later that day was that Hamas, in return for full Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 borders, would only implicitly recognize the Jewish state and would only halt its armed struggle for the liberation of all “Palestine” for a period of 10 years.

As dedicated Muslims, Hamas adheres to the dictates of their prophet Mohammed, which state that Muslims may agree to truces with superior infidel forces, but only temporarily in order to give the Muslims time to gain enough strength to complete their conquest. DH

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