The other day, Jimmy Carter spoke to a crowd of 6,500 as he and his wife received the nonviolence award from James Madison University's Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence. This is what Carter had to say about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process: "As President Barack Obama has made clear, the key factor that prevents peace is the continuing building of Israeli settlements in Palestine, driven by a determined minority of Israelis who desire to occupy and colonize east Jerusalem and the West Bank."
What a joke! Carter is obviously turning a blind eye to the fact that the Palestinians want to destroy the Jewish state. The same holds true for President Obama. Early last month at its party congress, Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah, the "moderate" arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization, publicized its goals, declaring:
"The armed revolution of the Arabic Palestinian nation is a decisive factor in the fight for the liberation and the liquidation of the Zionist presence. This struggle will not end until after the liquidation of the Zionist entity and the liberation of Palestine."
This is really nothing new. Both Fatah and Hamas have, on many occasions, publicly proclaimed their determination to eliminate Israel from the face of the earth. Abbas, when speaking in Arabic, has made the same declaration numerous times. Since the Palestinians and their leaders have vowed to liquidate the "Zionist entity," why should Israel bother to make peace with those who are determined to destroy it?
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