While former US President Jimmy Carter’s upcoming visit with Hamas terror chief Khaled Mashaal has received mixed reviews among Israeli government officials, he gets a total thumbs down from those who recognizes the evil and Hamas represents to not only Israel, but the entire Middle East.
Likud chairman and opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu said he would not meet with Carter, who is in Israel today (Sunday, 4/13), while President Shimon Peres, Defense Minister Ehud Barak (Labor), Minister of Industry and Trade Eli Yishai (Shas) and Member of Knesset (MK) Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beitenu) said they will meet with the former US president.
After his Sunday afternoon arrival, Carter will meet with Peres that evening. A spokesman for the Israeli president cited their “shared past” and Peres’ admiration for Carter’s role in advancing peace between Egypt and Israel for the meeting. Monday’s itinerary include a visit to Sderot, a meeting with Barak and a speech at an event sponsored by the left-wing Israeli daily Haaretz.
Tuesday, Carter is off to Ramallah to meet with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas and his colleagues. Before departing for Damascus to meet with the exiled Hamas leader, Carter will share his views with Yishai and Lieberman. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni blamed conflicting schedules for not meeting with the former president.
The US State Department said it informed Carter of its opposition to his meeting with Mashaal. “We counseled against it,” said State Department spokesman Sean McCormick. “US government policy is that Hamas is a terrorist organization and we don’t believe it is in the interest of our policy or in the interest of peace to have such a meeting,” he said.
Of course Carter, in his what we’ve come to expect from the mouth of whom I consider the worst President in U.S. history said, “This is a study mission and our purpose is not to negotiate but to support and provide momentum for current efforts to secure peace in the Middle East,” read a statement from the Carter Center.
Carter said he feels “quite at ease,” meeting with the Hamas militants over the objections of Washington because the Palestinian group is essential to a future peace with Israel.
.The State Department, including the secretary, Condoleezza Rice, criticized Carter’s plans to talk in Syria this week with exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in the first public contact in two years between a prominent American figure and the group. Carter said he had not heard the objections directly, although a State Department spokesman said earlier that a senior official from the department had called the former president.
“I feel quite at ease in doing this,” Carter said. “I think there’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that, if Israel is ever going to find peace with justice concerning the relationship with their next-door neighbors, the Palestinians, that Hamas will have to be included in the process.”
Although he said the meeting would not be a negotiation, he outlined distinct goals.
“I think that it’s very important that at least someone meet with the Hamas leaders to express their views, to ascertain what flexibility they have, to try to induce them to stop all attacks against innocent civilians in Israel and to cooperate with the Fatah as a group that unites the Palestinians, maybe to get them to agree to a cease-fire - things of this kind,” he said. The State Department says it advised Carter twice against meeting representatives of Hamas, which Washington considers a terrorist organization.
“I find it hard to understand what is going to be gained by having discussions with Hamas about peace when Hamas is, in fact, the impediment to peace,” Rice said Friday, after reports of the planned meeting surfaced.
Carter said he’d be meeting Syrians, Egyptians, Jordanians, Saudi Arabians and others “who might have to play a crucial role in any future peace agreement that involves the Middle East.” Asked whether it was right to meet a group that has not renounced violence or recognized Israel’s right to exist, he said, “Well, you can’t always get prerequisites adopted by other people before you even talk to them.”
Pressure to drop the meeting has come from his own party. Democratic Reps. Artur Davis of Alabama, Shelley Berkley of Nevada, Adam Schiff of California and Adam Smith of Washington state wrote a letter to Carter saying the meeting could confer legitimacy on a group that embraces violence.
Several Jewish groups in America have also expressed their opposition to Carter’s meeting and have called on the current Presidential candidates to decry Carter’s meeting. One such group, The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) said Sunday that Sens. Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama should speak out against Carter’s possible plans to visit with Hamas terror chief Khaled Meshal in Syria.
“It is unacceptable that a former American president would choose to dignify and legitimize Hamas leader Khaled Meshal with a visit. Hamas is a designated terrorist organization that denies Israel’s right to exist, kidnaps Israeli soldiers, fires rockets on Israeli towns, is responsible for the deaths of American citizens and celebrated in the streets of Gaza after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Meshal has even called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ‘courageous’ for denying the Holocaust,” said RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks.
“As presidential contenders who have pledged to protect America and stand with our ally, Israel, we urge Senators Clinton, McCain and Obama to speak out forcefully against former President Carter’s possible meeting with Khaled Meshal and to ask him not to have this meeting,” said Brooks.
Carter has by and large ignored these type warnings by simply stating, “I’ve been meeting with Hamas leaders for years.” We must remember that Carter is the disastrous former American president whose misguided policies in the Middle East, specifically his abandonment of the shah of Iran, led to the Iranian Islamic revolution in 1979, predictably sparking off worldwide Iranian-backed Shia terrorism and in response, rival Saudi-backed Sunni terrorism, the results of which are continuing to be felt around the world today.
And just in case anyone needs reminding what a terrible threat Hamas is to Israel and Hamas’ relationship with America’s enemies, a new intelligence estimate puts its armed fighting force in the Gaza strip now at about 20,000 soldiers including many who trained in Syria and Iran. It’s a hell of a lot of guns for a piece of land roughly the size of Brooklyn and Queens combined, with a much smaller population. Every day Hamas looks less like a “terrorist group” and more like a terror army.
With former presidents like Jimmy Carter who work hard to give credibility to terrorists and do everything possible to help America’s enemies and harm Western civilization, terrorists of the world can save their money on propaganda - from the likes of Jimmy Carter it comes for free.
The more scarier thought is that Carter’s actions may be the face of a coming Obama or Clinton Presidency who both have hinted at a similar “willingness” to open up with the enemies of Israel and the United States in hopes that “dialogue” will change an opinion that is nearly 6,000 years old.
The Arab world’s hatred of Israel is not new nor is it without Biblical roots nor is it without prophetic significance for the end times we live in today. Ezekiel called the Arab world’s attitude an “ancient hatred,” that has sought to destroy Israel since the says of Esau, Ishmael and Amalek. The last great conflict to grip the world, which will bring about the deaths of possibly several billion people, will be that of the Antichrist. The Antichrist will be heralded as one who has solved the “Jewish problem,” yet in his evil mind, the solution to that “problem,” will be the same solution as Adolph Hitler desired, namely the annihilation of every Jew on the Planet. The Antichrist’s efforts will reach their highest point at the Battle of Armageddon, and he will come close to completing his goal, only being stopped by the brightness of the Lord’s coming which will take place at that very time!
The way the world is being prepared for the advent of the Antichrist involves the rise of Islam. A great part of the Muslim world is situated in the Middle East and controls some 60 percent of the world’s oil reserves. Despite the fact that hundreds of billions of dollars go into their coffers every year, the Muslim nations of the Middle East are grossly poor. At the time of this writing, there are about 300 million Muslims in Middle East countries, with about 1.2 billion Muslims existing worldwide. Despite the billions of oil dollars flowing into their economies, those same Muslim countries we speak of steadily grow poorer. Only a tiny few profit from the oil billions, and these few are obscenely rich.
The powers that be in the Muslim world desire that the masses of Muslims remain poor – dirt poor, even agonizingly poor. They then claim, and they constantly claim, that it is the United States that is the cause of this poverty, using these claims as recruiting tools for human bombers who are willing to give up their pitiful lives in order to kill the “infidels.” It does not take a genius or Rhodes Scholar to understand the two enemies of the Muslim world are the United States AND Israel, whom they term the “Great Satan,” and “Little Satan,” respectively.
The Muslims hate the Jews for many and varied reasons, but perhaps the greatest reason is their claim that Ishmael is the true son of Abraham, not Isaac. As a result, they want every Jew dead, and they want to possess every square inch of the tiny land of Israel. Let the reader consider this startling fact. The land area of Israel comprises about one-tenth (1/10th) of one percent of the entirety of the land of the Middle East. All the rest of the Middle East (99.9%) is controlled by Arabs and Muslims, but yet they still want that tiny spit of land called, “ISRAEL.” Why?
The truth is they really don’t know themselves, but the Bible does know! It’s called an “ancient hatred,” rooted in the hearts of the seed of Ishmael toward the seed of Isaac. Israel, according to the Bible, claims to be the chosen people of God, while the Muslims, who refer to their god as “Allah,” claim the same thing through Ishmael.
Ezekiel 35:3-5 -And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate. [4] I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. [5] Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
Incidentally the name “Allah,” comes from one of the ancient Babylonian idols, and was selected somewhat at random by Mohammed. The goal of the Muslims is NOT land! This is the greatest lie and deception the enemy has shrouded the minds of the modern news media and even many in the church with in these last days. The Muslims want to annihilate every Jew and confiscate the tiny land of Israel for their own. We must understand that Muslims as a people are not the enemy but the RELIGION of Islam that has instilled this hatred in their hearts IS! It’s Islam that creates all the bad attitudes and problems as billions of Muslims seeks to please Allah by fighting against those Islam calls the “infidels,” and “pigs” i.e. the Jews and the Christians. Because of Islam, they lose their lives fighting for Allah in hopes that this will get them to paradise. Because of Islam, there is no forgiveness in the heart of Muslims – either to others or to themselves. The word “love,” is not found on one page of the Muslim’s “holy book,” the Koran.
It is a blatantly false idea that the current conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, and even the current Middle East war between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas, is caused by Israel refusing to give the Palestinians their own particular homeland within the borders of the State of Israel. The true cause of the conflict is that the terror group Hamas wants, as does all of Islam, every Jew dead and the entirety of the Land of Israel in their possession. This is a war friend, make no mistake about! Furthermore, it’s not a war fought with just bullets and tanks, but a spiritual war between the forces of the spirit realm controlling Islam and the forces of heaven which under gird those who believe in Christ! People like Jimmy Carter as well as all those who embrace his failed idea that “dialogue” will help the situation do not grasp this is a RELIGIOUS and SPIRITUAL conflict, not a political one. And the stupidity of a former President from Georgia will never change that.
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