Flying pig alert: Carter sort-of endorses Gush Etzion settlements
In a surprising move for a man famous for talking about “apartheid” in connection with the West Bank, former US president Jimmy Carter gave his endorsement Sunday to settlements in Gush Etzion, located just south of Jerusalem.
“This particular settlement area is not one I ever envision being abandoned or changed over into Palestinian territory,” Carter said at the end of his afternoon visit to Neveh Daniel, in Gush Etzion.
After more than 30 years of working toward ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it was his first visit to a settlement.
Although he did not signify whether he meant his comment to include all 14 Gush Etzion settlements, he said that they were among the settlements over the 1967 Green Line “that I think will be here forever.”