Why Does Jimmy Carter Hate America?

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Mon May 26, 2008 at 8:09 am PDT • Views: 934

This may be the lowest point of his disgraceful career of failure and appeasement: Carter urges ‘supine’ Europe to break with US over Gaza blockade.

Jimmy Carter is actively subverting the policies of his own country, and lending the legitimacy of a former president to a vicious, genocidal terrorist group.

Britain and other European governments should break from the US over the international embargo on Gaza, former US president Jimmy Carter told the Guardian yesterday. Carter, visiting the Welsh border town of Hay for the Guardian literary festival, described the EU’s position on the Israeli-Palestinian dispute as “supine” and its failure to criticise the Israeli blockade of Gaza as “embarrassing”.

Referring to the possibility of Europe breaking with the US in an interview with the Guardian, he said: “Why not? They’re not our vassals. They occupy an equal position with the US.”

The blockade on Hamas-ruled Gaza, imposed by the US, EU, UN and Russia - the so-called Quartet - after the organisation’s election victory in 2006, was “one of the greatest human rights crimes on Earth,” since it meant the “imprisonment of 1.6 million people, 1 million of whom are refugees”. “Most families in Gaza are eating only one meal per day. To see Europeans going along with this is embarrassing,” Carter said.

He called on the EU to reassess its stance if Hamas agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza. “Let the Europeans lift the embargo and say we will protect the rights of Palestinians in Gaza, and even send observers to Rafah gate [Gaza’s crossing into Egypt] to ensure the Palestinians don’t violate it.”

UPDATE at 5/26/08 10:09:00 am:

The worst president in history also blurted out that Israel has 150 nuclear weapons.

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