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Carter: US forced Palestinian elections on Israel « Thread S

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Carter: US forced Palestinian elections on Israel « Thread S

Postby admin » Fri Jan 27, 2012 7:52 am

Carter: US forced Palestinian elections on Israel « Thread Started on Mar 21, 2006, 10:29pm » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Carter: US forced Palestinian elections on Israel Filed under: Front Page, Arabs, USA, Middle East, Israel, peace process, antisemitism, PA By Stan Goodenough, Jerusalem Newswireread source: http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=561It’s out in the open. The United States will only permit Israeli governments to act sovereignly in areas that do not directly impact on US interests in the Middle East.When it comes to any really important decisions, including those that affect the security of the State of Israel and its citizens, America insists on the right to order Israel’s actions and will not hesistate to employ blackmail and threats to secure compliance with its demands.It was the Bush administration which forced Israel to permit and to facilitate the Palestinian Authority elections last January. It is therefore directly to blame for Hamas’ ascension to power in the “Palestinian” areas and will be accountable for the fallout that will follow. This is not scuttlebutt or anti-US conspiracy theory. The admission came directly from former US President Jimmy Carter in his answer to a question after he addressed a March 2, 2006 meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York, when he said:“[T]his election … was supported by the United States and forced on Israel by the United States. Israel did not want to have the election, but it was forced on them.” This peremptory action was in line with America’s long-held position that the Jews are not entitled to any more land for their state than that which they held in 1949. Declared Carter:“From Dwight Eisenhower to the road map of George W. Bush, our policy has been that Israel’s borders coincide with those of 1949.” Israel, acutely aware that the United States is the only friend it has on the planet, and unwilling or unable to put its trust in the Almighty, is super-sensitive to pressure from Washington which, for its part, has not been averse to exploiting that dependency, even to the detriment of its “ally’s” interests.During his talk preceding the Q&A session, Carter recalled how the US had strong-armed Israel into the whole land-for-peace process back in 1991.“After a major breakthrough in the peace process occurred under President George H.W. Bush and Secretary James Baker at Madrid, the president reemphasized U.S. opposition to Israeli settlements, and even threatened to withhold American financial aid to Prime Minister Shamir as a deterrent. Jim Baker announced at the time, ‘I don’t think there is any greater obstacle to peace than settlement activity.’”In fact, as recorded in The Jerusalem Post on July 3, 1991, Baker made that scurrilous statement before the Madrid Conference in a shameless effort to force Israel to attend.Nor was this Carter’s only inaccuracy as he made his case for dividing the Land of Israel on a foundation of half-truths and fantasies. He deliberately misquoted United Nations Resolution 242 as follows:“To quote its key commitments, ‘The inadmissability of the acquisition of territory by war and the need to work for a just and lasting peace in which every state in the area can live in security, and the withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from the territories occupied in the recent conflict.’”As those who have monitored the Arab-Israeli conflict know, Israel insisted that the wording read, “from territories” and not “from the territories” and this wording was accepted, following which Israel withdrew from over 90 percent of the territory it had occupied. Still, consistent with the position he held during his presidency 25 years ago, Carter pursues a clear and unfriendly agenda for Israel. In an op-ed article published in the Israeli daily Ha’aretz earlier this week, he unabashedly decried Israel’s “colonization of Palestine.”Of course, this is the lying language of Israel’s enemies. There is no Palestine and Israel is not colonizing anything.
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