OBAMA REFUSES TO CRITICIZE JIHAD JIMMY CARTER'S MEETING WITH HAMAS

Is Obama outside the mainstream on Israel? Just whose side is he on? Bad news. This man is bad news.

Peres: Carter has “greatly damaged” Middle East peace process  [Tom Gross] NRO

This is a follow-up to my item of earlier in the week: Al-Hayat: Jimmy Carter to meet Hamas leader in Damascus.)

Jimmy Carter, who is generally acknowledged to have been the worst US president of modern times, is now turning out to be the most embarrassing ex-president.

Even so notable a statesman as the usually soft-spoken President Shimon Peres of Israel today publicly lashed out at Carter after meeting him in Jerusalem. Carter’s “activities over the last few years had caused great damage to Israel and the peace process,” said Peres.

In an unprecedented diplomatic snub to a leading American politician, Israel’s prime minister (Ehud Olmert), foreign minister (Tzipi Livni) and defense minister (Ehud Barak) have all refused to meet Carter during his visit to Israel, which began today.

Carter is due to go on to Damascus where he says he plans to meet Hamas terror mastermind Khaled Meshal. Peres said that such a meeting would be a “severe mistake,” calling Meshal a “murderer and terrorist.”

Meanwhile, State Department officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, as well as several leading politicians from Carter’s own Democratic party are pleading with Carter not to meet Meshal. Several of Meshal’s victims have been Americans.

“Please don’t confer legitimacy on a group that embraces violence and wishes to destroy Israel,” several Democrats wrote in a letter to Carter.

Notable among those who have not criticized Carter is Barack Obama.

Reuters reports from Indianapolis:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Friday it was not his place to criticize former President Jimmy Carter... “I’m not going to comment on former President Carter. He’s a private citizen. It’s not my place to discuss who he shouldn’t meet with,” Obama told reporters while campaigning in Indianapolis.

Click here to see one of the many children murdered on Meshal’s orders.

I like one remark I received, "I can't believe Hamas is sullying themselves by meeting with such a disgusting anti-semite".

Rice, Congressmen Criticize Carter Over Hamas Plans

See also Israeli President Peres Tells Carter He's Hurting Peace Process

And more (hat tip Ed Lasky) Malley's advising Obama:

More Malley Misjudgments  Eric Trager, Commentary Magazine 

One of the great myths of Palestinian politics is that “national unity” is a prerequisite for forging peace with Israel. Indeed, history has shown quite the opposite: that the very pursuit of Palestinian “national unity”—which implicitly requires empowering parties that are sworn to Israel’s destruction—retards the peace process entirely. For example, consider the consequences of including Hamas in the 2006 parliamentary elections: rather than joining forces with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in a unified pursuit of peace, the victorious Hamas leadership opted to escalate its confrontation with Israel—doing so with greater political legitimacy among Palestinians, no less.

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama claims to have learned from this history. Even while declining to denounce former President Jimmy Carter for his upcoming meet-and-greet with Hamas leader Khalid Meshal in Damascus, Obama declared, “Until Hamas clearly recognizes Israel, renounces terrorism and abides by, or believes that the Palestinians should abide by previous agreements … I don’t think conversations with them would be fruitful.” Yet there is a new reason to doubt Obama’s sincerity in his stance against engaging Hamas: in the most recent issue of The New York Review of Books, Obama foreign policy adviser Robert Malley argues that Abbas should employ the same “logic behind his acceptance that Hamas participate in the 2006 elections,” such that Hamas is coaxed enter the political system and given “a stake in governance and a foot in the peace process.”

Yes, you’ve read that correctly: Malley—whom I’ve previously criticized for enthusiastically supporting the inclusion of Hamas in the 2006 parliamentary elections—believes that learning from Palestinian political history means repeating it! In this vein, Malley further calls for yet another Hamas-Fatah national unity deal—one that roughly resembles the agreement that the two parties signed last year in Mecca (with Malley’s blessings), which ultimately gave Hamas ample cover for planning its coup in Gaza only four months later. But perhaps Malley’s total failure to learn from history is best illustrated in his typical homily to Yasser Arafat, whom Malley believes should be a model for future Palestinian leaders trying to sell peace with Israel to their people; he writes, “Full of bluster and bravado, Yasser Arafat could make Palestinian setbacks such as the Oslo compromises taste like victory.” Of course, this is a stunning distortion: Arafat never actually promoted Oslo as a Palestinian victory, but promised that it represented a first step towards reclaiming all of historic Palestine.

Ultimately, one is left to wonder: if Obama is so dead-set against engaging Hamas, why is Malley—a constant proponent of engaging Hamas, among other wrongheaded ideas—advising him?

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Comments

[RISE_UP]

All of that untraceable money from the internet and people think Obama would critize the world's only living abortion? It is clear and oh so clear Obama is a 'Sleeper'The bills he has introduced,the non votes and the votes he did make show just what he is about. But no matter what else might sink his ship. One does not f***k with the 2nd amendment. Shallow minds don't get it that once they take your guns,they can overwhelm you anytime. Look at Europe. But as Charlas Heston says,(rip) "You'll have to pry my gun from my cold dead hand " And that is the belief of enough people to sink Obama Osama's ship. Not only that, I hope once this is over, he is drummed out of the senate. He does not deserve to be there.
The more it goes, the more he shows...and the Rev Wright seems to want a new civil war..watch out Rev.Wright...it might not turn out the same.

[flyingsongster]

The sad commentary for this country, is that Obama is a contender for the presidency of the United States. I recommend that he be
given the name of "Carter 2".

[Mack the Nice]

Have you people all gone completely off your bonkers? With the facts sitting there staring you directly in the face, you actually manage to find the way to deny them!

Quoting from this very article itself . . .

'Obama declared, “Until Hamas clearly recognizes Israel, renounces terrorism and abides by, or believes that the Palestinians should abide by previous agreements … I don’t think conversations with them would be fruitful.'”

If that's not a denunciation of Carter's mission--what is? Why oh why do you do this to the one candidate who could prove to be the best friend Israel has among the whole lot of them?

And why do you not demand a like denunciation from Billary? What's your trip? Maybe you just a bunch of the Hillary Youth in disguise?

Looks to me like y'all better come on down to Mackie's place and pick up your complimentary booby prizes which have been all wrapped up and waiting for you since last night, your own very highly squeezably squishy and wishy-washy Bobble-Head Billary Doll

[RISE_UP]

'Obama declared, “Until Hamas clearly recognizes Israel, renounces terrorism and abides by, or believes that the Palestinians should abide by previous agreements … I don’t think conversations with them would be fruitful.'”

Can you tell me where you found that? And if it is true, then it is damming anyway.Does Obama have a multi personality? Here is a man who wants to meet with Iran? He is screwed anyhow just on the gun issue.And yeah I would vote for Hillary any day over him.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/mccain_slams_carter_obama_on_h.html