“Middle East Efforts by Rice, Carter Spark More Violence”: the dangers of dancing with terrorists
comment by Jerry Gordon
Carter and Rice are fools for believing that they can wheedle and cajole terrorists and state sponsors of terrorism to make peace. What’s the expression ‘never negotiate with terrorists’. All that does is embolden terrorists to wreak more havoc, because of your ‘weakness’.
That’s the effective outcome of ex-President Carter’s personal violation of US law in holding discussions with terrorist leader Khaled Mashaal of the military wing of Hamas and young reckless President Assad.
As reported in the Jerusalem Post report, Mashaal mislead naive Carter into believing that there might be a deal to release hapless Israeli soldier Galid Shalit to Egyptian authorities imprisoned following his kidnapping nearly two years ago, if and when the next major prisoner release occurs. Then Mashaal entices salivating Carter with the proposition that a hudna or cease fire might be arranged in exchange for Israel retreating to its pre-1967 War borders, without recognition of the Jewish state. Fat chance that would receive any support from even Olmert’s weak ruling Kadima government in Jerusalem. Carter upon his return to Jerusalem met with the craven Olmert’s minority coalition partner, Shas , who simply told Carter that when Gilad is released, they might go to Egypt. Total fantasy and appeasement. The reality as reflected in this Debka report is that Hamas, its Syrian and Iranian handlers met after Carter left to ramp up an offensive along the Gaza frontier with Israel. Hamas’s objective is still the destruction of the Jewish state. An illustration of that strategy was a spectacular Hamas attack last weekend on an Israel ‘humanitarian’ crossing using US vehicles and arms captured last June in the coup against Fatah in Gaza. Witness this comment from a WorldNetDaily report:
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The vehicles were captured when Hamas last June took complete control of the Gaza Strip, overtaking all U.S.-backed security compounds in the territory associated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party. The U.S. provided Fatah with weapons, vehicles and large sums of financial and military aid.
Israeli defense officials called yesterday’s border attack the largest, most sophisticated Hamas terrorist operation since Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005.
‘We utilized two American armored Jeep vehicles in the heroic operation at Kerem Shalom,’ said Abu Abdullah, who is considered one of the most important operational members of Hamas’ so-called military wing. ‘We obtained the vehicles last June.’
Muhammad Abdel-Al, the spokesperson and a leader of the Hamas-allied Popular Resistance Committees terrorist organization which participated in this weekend’s attack, confirmed two American vehicles were utilized.
Abdel-Al added, ‘We warned you we would obtain all the weapons the Zionists and Americans gave to your puppets in Fatah. It is only a matter of time before we take over the West Bank and obtain the American weapons you are giving Fatah now.’
In the attack, which took place just hours after the Jewish state ushered in the Passover holiday, two explosive-laden vehicles disguised as Israeli military jeeps exploded at the Kerem Shalom crossing, the main Israeli transport area for goods and humanitarian aid into Gaza.
So Rice and Carter can palaver all they want about Middle east ‘peace’ with terrorists and terrorism sponsoring states. All this does is embolden Islamist terrorists to perpetrate Jihad against the Jewish State of Israel, America’s only trustworthy ally in the region. And that ‘peace’ offering from Mashaal that Carter brought back was akin to Esau selling his birth right to his brother Jacob for ‘porridge’.
Better that Carter be asked by our government to surrender his passport for talking with terrorists in violation of US law and that Congress pass a law denying the Carter Center Federal funding as payment in kind for ‘dancing with terrorists’.
Debka report, April 21, 2008
While Syrian president Bashar Assad talked about an exchange of messages with Israel through a third party – Turkey and Norway – Sunday, April 21, elsewhere in Damascus, Syrian and Iranian intelligence officers were meeting secretly with Hamas leaders and promising them every support for stepped up rejectionist violence.
In particular, they backed Hamas up in its ultimatum to Egypt (and indirectly Israel) to open the border crossings and end the blockade on Hamas-ruled Gaza as the sine qua non for a lull in attacks on Israel and terms for Gilead Shalit’s release.
The impasse reached in Hamas-Egyptian truce talks, the failure of former US president Jimmy Carter’s mediation bids with Hamas and Syrian leaders, together with the presence in the region of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, all contribute to the scaling up of violence.
Tehran and Damascus believe that warfare - not only on the Gaza-Israel border, but also in Iraq and Lebanon – will work best for their interests at two important Middle East encounters this week at which Secretary Rice will be present.
One opening in Bahrain Monday, April 21 will bring Rice together with the foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and the six Gulf nations, led by Saud al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia. The next meeting on Iraq security, which takes place in Kuwait on April 22, will be attended by the foreign ministers of all Iraq’s neighbors, including Iran’s Mottaki Manouchehr.
Here too diplomaticspeak does not necessarily reflect the private brass-tacks talks that will take place on the sidelines of the conference.
Sunday, Rice called on Iraq’s Arab neighbors to support the Baghdad government and shield it from Iran’s “nefarious influence,” while the foreign ministry in Tehran said she was suffering from Iranophobia. Nonetheless, US and Iranian officials will talk outside the conference hall and may even arrange for their principals to meet.
The Iranians are determined to come to the negotiating table with the Americans from a position of strength. They believe their strongest card is their ability to trigger bloody clashes in Iraq, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, thereby showing the Americans that Iran not Washington holds the whip hand in these Middle East disputes.
Orders therefore went out to Iran’s agents, proxies and dependants to keep the pot boiling in those trouble spots. The Americans responded in the past few weeks with a heavy crackdown on the Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr’s Medhi Army in Baghdad and southern Iraq which derives support from Tehran - despite the cleric’s threat of open war.
As for Hamas, our intelligence sources report that Saturday, April 19, after the Gazan leaders Mahmoud a-Zahar and Siad Siyam, fresh from their Cairo stalemate, met former US president Jimmy Carter in Damascus - and heard his suggestion of a one- or two-week halt in rocket fire as a gesture of good will - they went straight into a conference with their masters.
Khaled Meshaal and Mussa Abu Marzuk were there as well as Iranian intelligence officers based permanently in Syria and Syrian intelligence officers who maintain liaison with Hamas. It was agreed that Hamas would not only continue to batter the Gaza-Israel border as in the last ten days, but intensify its assaults against a broader range of targets.
Sunday night, Hamas fired 8 Qassam missiles and half a dozen mortar rounds against Israel civilian locations, their first nocturnal attack of this kind.
Shortly before midnight, they directed fire at Israeli farmers who were harvesting the Kibbutz Nir Oz potato crop in bullet-proof vests by night to escape sniper fire from Gaza. Israeli air force strikes followed, hitting armed Palestinian bands. At least 8 gunmen were killed over the week end.
DEBKAfile’s military sources stress that these Israeli attacks and the deaths of its operatives offer Hamas neither disincentive nor impediment for its war preparations.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:25 • opinion • Jerusalem Post • World Net daily • Carter meetings with Hamas • Debka report • Hamas Syria Iran plans for Gaza offensive against Israe • 0 Comments •
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