Reply #16: I thought I'd offer here some sage advice for Carter . . [View All]

[msmcghee]

. . as was offered by a statesman and a popular American politician. Can you guess who it was?

a) I would not recognize the Palestinians as a political entity—nor their leaders—until after those leaders had first recognized Israel’s right to exist.

b) I would not recognize the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the PLO, nor their leaders under any circumstances, diplomatically, until they recognize the right of Israel to exist in peace in their present location in the Far East—in the Middle East.

c) I think the world should know, and I think the President of the United States and the Secretary of State of the future can explain, that the Palestinian problem did not originate because of Israel, that this is a long-standing problem whose complexity has been created to a substantial degree by the nations who surround it and who now blame the Palestinian problem on Israel itself.

Sound familiar? These statements were made by James Earl Carter when he was running for president himself.

For citations,

http://blog.camera.org/archives/2006/12/carters_ideas_face_refutations_1.html#more