‘Jimmy Carter Lays A Wreath at Arafat’s Tomb’: appeasing abetter of terrorists
comment by Jerry Gordon
Ole ‘Jimma’ Carter, the man from Plains, Georgia and former President, former First Lady, Rosalind and son Jeff are on a disputed trip to Israel, the West Bank and a meeting on Friday in Damascus with Khaled Mashaal, Hamas terrorist military wing leader on Friday. The Israeli government officially will have nothing to do with him, after he announced the meeting with terrorist group Hamas. Only Israeli President Shimon Peres met with him on Sunday night and frankly told him he was wrong to meet with Mashaal. Today, the Israeli government refused him entrance to Gaza, as well.
Yesterday he visited the beleaguered Israeli town of Sderot rocketed daily by Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas terrorists and uttered this remark: “I think it’s a despicable crime for any deliberate effort to be made to kill innocent civilians, and my hope is there will be a cease-fire soon,” Carter said during a visit Monday to the rocket-ravaged town of Sderot. (One Kassam rocket slammed into an open area near Sderot on Monday, the army said.)
Carter got a souvenir ‘tail’ from a Kassem rocket. He might lay that before Hamas leader.
The CNSNews story noted:
Carter also received a “souvenir” - the tail of a Kassam rocket, with an inscription from Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal.
“To President Carter: A momento of the thousands of Kassam rockets that were shot at Sderot and the region and caused the death of many innocent civilians. With hope for peace and tranquility in the near future,” read the inscription, written in Hebrew.
Today, Carter pulled out stops and laid a wreath at Arafat’s tomb in Ramallah. The US Consul noted:
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Most visiting American dignitaries — including President Bush — have avoided Arafat’s tomb. Michaela Schweitzer-Bluhm, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem that handles Palestinian affairs, told Cybercast News Service that no active U.S. Executive Branch member had ever laid a wreath on Arafat’s grave.
The satirical blog Unconfirmed Sources had a spoof on Carter being arrested as a supporter of terrorism replete with a doctored picture.
The Unconfirmed Sources satire said in sarcasm:
“The nation is safe now that this terror supporter is behind bars.” Says an unnamed Department of Justice official. “The subject, an 83 year old white male was planning on meeting with members of the terrorist groups Hammas, Fatah, as well as persons of interest from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Israel. We believe we have disrupted a very serious terrorist information nexus.”
President Carter has been taken to a secure facility and is awaiting transfer to Guantanamo Bay for further questioning.
Sometimes satire ,as in this case ,has a ring of truth. Pity, we knew ‘old Jimma’, when!
by Julie Stahl, CNSNews.com, April 15, 2008
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter laid a wreath of red roses at the grave of Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat during a visit to the West Bank City of Ramallah on Tuesday.
“He and Mrs. Carter and his son Jeff wanted to pay their respects to President Arafat,” Carter’s trip director Rick Jasculca told Cybercast News Service. But the former president didn’t make any comments there, he said.
Dubbed the “godfather of terrorism,” Arafat was linked to the deaths of two American diplomats in the Sudan in 1973 — one of many terror acts laid at his feet. (See earlier story)
Twenty years later, Arafat became the first PLO leader to sign a peace agreement with an Israeli Prime Minister — Yitzhak Rabin — in 1993. He was considered Israel’s peace partner (although many Israelis never believed it) until the beginning of the violent Palestinian uprising in September 2000. Arafat managed the terror war against Israel until his death in 2004.
U.S. officials have emphasized that Carter is visiting the Middle East as a private citizen and not as a representative of the U.S. government.
On Tuesday, the Israeli government refused Carter’s request to visit Hamas-controlled Gaza. The former U.S. leader has angered the Israeli government over plans to meet Hamas’s top leader, Khaled Mashaal, in Syria on Friday.
Most visiting American dignitaries — including President Bush — have avoided Arafat’s tomb. Michaela Schweitzer-Bluhm, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem that handles Palestinian affairs, told Cybercast News Service that no active U.S. Executive Branch member had ever laid a wreath on Arafat’s grave.
Carter first met Arafat in 1990, when Arafat was leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization. According to a New York Times report, Carter praised Arafat as a peacemaker.
Years later, Carter led an international team in observing the first Palestinian Authority elections that gave Arafat the presidency. (Carter also observed the 2006 elections that brought Hamas an overwhelming parliamentary majority.)
Arafat was the most frequent visitor to President Bill Clinton’s White House. President Bush also dealt with Arafat at the beginning of his presidency, but after the Palestinian leader lied to Bush in early 2002 about a huge shipment of Iranian weapons bound for the P.A., he was shunned until his death in November 2004.
On Tuesday, Carter also had lunch with a dozen or so Palestinian civil society leaders and had what was described as a “wonderful round table” discussion with Palestinian youths that he and his wife enjoyed immensely, said Jasculca.
As President Carter travels around the Middle East he is “eager to hear viewpoints” about peace and the peace process. “Instead of talking, he’s doing a lot of listening,” said Jasculca.
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