Carters stora fötter plaskar på i dyngan

Man undrar vad som driver jordnötsbonden Carter till att bli ett åtlöje för sej själv - och sin önskan att stå i rampljuset som en ren idiot. Är det arabiska pengar med - villkor? Läs t.ex. på Dhimmi Watch, BBC skriver om det vid det tillfälle då många av Carters medarbetare lämnade honom pga hans lögner i den senaste boken om palestinaaraberna - en annan kommenterade då boken med The Carter book is so biased that it inevitably raises the question of what would motivate a decent man like Jimmy Carter to write such an indecent book. Vilka är det han uppskattar? Han har blivit utskälld av Abbas för sin högt önskade intimitet med Hamas - vilket förstör de mikroskopiska möjligheterna att det ska komma något positivt ut ur förhandlingarna mellan Abbas och Olmert. Se t.ex. Carter: Stop favoring Fatah over Hamas. Completely erasing years of diplomacy and a series of face-to-face meetings between Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas, Carter fabricates: Carter Blasts US Policy on Palestinians. Allra senast kan du läsa PA to Carter: Don't meet with Mashaal. För några dagar sedan sa personer från Abbas regering att Carters försök att klampa in i vad han inte begriper, förstör Abbas möjligheter att försöka få det lite bättre för palestinaaraberna, speciellt i Gaza. Libanons Daily Star skrev igår: Jimmy Carter: a fool on a fool's errand By Michael Young Daily Star staff Thursday, April 17, 2008

Say what you will about Jimmy Carter, he has a way of transforming moments of plodding gravitas into uproarious comedy. Remember that moment during the 1980 Democratic convention when Carter stood up, and in a phrase paying tribute to Hubert Humphrey, instead praised "Hubert Horatio Hornblower," confusing the late vice president with the character from the C.S. Forester novels?

As Carter prepares to meet with a senior Hamas leader, Khaled Meshaal, in Damascus, the former American president again risks attempting to say one thing, only to blunder into another. Carter's declared goal is to affirm that no one can avoid talking to Hamas. As he put it last week, "I'm not a negotiator. I'm someone who might provide some communication. I'm going to try to make [Meshaal] agree to a peaceful resolution, both with Israel and with Hamas' Palestinian rivals."

The debate over whether the United States, Israel and others should talk to Hamas has become tiresome, largely because those supporting dialogue invariably limit their reasoning to a narrow syllogism: Hamas is a central actor in the Palestinian conflict; to resolve the conflict you need to talk to central actors; therefore talk to Hamas. To many engagers the problem is mainly one of communication. If only everyone could just sit around a table and talk, things would work out. Khaled Meshaal hasn't yet been shown the prospective gains from a peaceful resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; he hasn't been talked to. But because he's a pragmatic man, a sincere dialogue would allow him to deploy some of that pragmatism to the benefit of reaching a peaceful regional equilibrium.

You can almost hear Khaled Meshaal gasping at the naivete of such sweeping positivism, as he prepares to score points off his solemn American visitor. Meshaal knows what talks with Hamas would really imply, and he knows the snag is hardly one of miscommunication. .......

En annan kommentar är: When former president Jimmy Carter meets with terrorist Hamas leader Khaled Mashall this Friday in Damascus he will apparently violate two federal laws. His eager defiance of the law threatens Americans at home and our troops abroad. Former president Jimmy Carter’s plan to meet with the exiled leader of Hamas in Damascus is drawing criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike. Just nu är Carter i Egypten och delar med sig av sin vishet: bl.a. berättar han för kreti och pleti hur Israel svälter ut Gazaborna - att Israel skickar tusentals med lastbilar kontinuerligt med förnödenheter samtidigt som de blir beskjutna av Hamas och Hamas stjäl hälften av det som ska gå till civilbefolkningen, har han inte en aaaaaaning om. Abbas gäng försöker ofta vara lite mera diplomatiska än Carter och Hamas, men ibland säger de vad de tänker: PLO official: We'll drive Israel out of Palestine Yishai, i Haaretz-artikeln, talade som individ, inte representant för den israeliska regeringen. Läs den gärna - tänk på att Haaretz är ungefär lika "vänster" som Aftonbladet. Och läs alla kommentarerna efter artikeln som: Why didn`t Olmert meet with Carter and give the impression at least he will leave no stone unturned for peace - and get some good PR out of it. Not only he looked stupid shunning Carter but today`s revelation that his deputy passed along a message to Hamas via Carter and then saying Olmert erred in not meeting him only paints a picture of a leader that has completely lost the plot. His every decision since taking office, from war with Lebanon and to the Gaza situation, endless political mishaps regarding abiding by the Road Map - from outposts to settlements - to every issue imaginable, his decisions and executions on all fronts have been unmitigated disasters. DN954 SvD627 K SDS T Y D Haaretz