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Carter: Gaza residents 'starving to death'
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Published: 18.04.08, 00:27
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61. Carter's visit
Jakov   (04.18.08)
Each day that I read the articles on this man, it only gets worse. First, he gos and actually EMBRACES a Hamas leader. Mind you, that's a group that is an enemy to the Jews, to the USA, and to the West. What is he trying to prove? Then, he goes and lays a wreath to Arafat. He is doing what a citizen of the PA does. He doesn't have any need to make himself out to be one of them. The man just plainly does not like the Jews. How come he doesn't go to Sderot and visit with affected residents? How come he doesn't visit a Gan where children are at a very early age taught about the dangers they face in their community.
62. CARTER IS THE VILLAGE IDIOT
EARL MANN ,   TORONTO, CANADA   (04.18.08)
SPEAKING IN A VILLAGE [GAZA] OF IDIOTS! HOW STUPID CAN HE AND GAZANS BE? IF THE RATIO IS 30-1 THE QUESTION THEY SHOULD BE ASKING THEMSELVES IS THIS: "HOW'S IT WORKIN' ?" IF ISHMAELITES WOULD ONLY GIVE UP THEIR PATHOLOGICAL BLOOD LUST AGAINST THE SEED OF JACOB AND OPT FOR PEACE -THERE WOULD BE PEACE ... AND MORE PITA TO EAT..
63. Ahmed #28
Gary ,   US   (04.18.08)
Ahmed, It doesn't help that Carter lies outright. The ratio is 4 to 1, not 40 to 1. Carter is simply lying. 2nd intifada: 1000 Israelis, mostly civilians, vs 4000 Palestinians, the majority of whom were combatants. The Israeli civilians were all targeted specifically because they were civilians. The Palestinian civilians tragically died most often because Israeli response to terrorism was deliberately drawn into civilian areas by unscrupulous Palestinian combatants.
64. Shame on Carter
Rob ,   Hamburg, Germany   (04.18.08)
What a shame this ex-President is. He is also prob the worst president the US has ever had...meeting with terrorists & laying flowers on their graves. The situation in Gaza is Arafats fault who stole all the charity money that was given to the PA. Don't blame Israel Jimmy!!
65. disgusting racist antisemite
shmuel ,   jerusalem, israel   (04.18.08)
how pitiful that a past US president, has proudly exposed himself as a hypocritical disgusting racist antisemitism, befriending the best of those best know for breaking the 'thy shalt not murder' precept.!!!
66. What disturbs Carter ? Hamas, his friends, are in trouble!
Robert Bernier ,   Tel Aviv   (04.18.08)
The only possibility to the inhabitant of Gaza should be the free choice to emigrat to other Arab countries (most of these countries are not very populated and can easily integrate them). The time has come for these people to stop with politics and terrorism and search for a solution for their families based on well-being and peace. Most of the inhabitans of Gaza hope for this solution as explained at : http://xrl.us/bjg97
67. #2 is not an American but an Arab Muslim.
Real American ,   America   (04.18.08)
You don't fool anyone. Israel is supported by 90 % of Americans. Most Americans are outraged at Jimmy Carter for meeting with terrorists.
68. If the 30-40 Gazans are being killed per every Israeli . . .
robin ,   israel   (04.18.08)
Why don't they stop attacking Israel?
69. Carter got us into this mess
Susan ,   Kfar Saba   (04.18.08)
Carter's policies towards the Shah led to the takeover of Iran by this dictatorship. The Shah trusted him but he didn't come through for the Shah. This led to the talkeover of Iran by a much more repressive regime. Now he has the gall to come here and accuse us. Who supports Hamas? Who funds them? Whose bidding is Hamas doing? Iran's. Carter indirectly got us into a polsition where we have to blockade them and kill them, yes kill them. It seems to me that if the Shah's son were ruling Iran today, Hamas would not be threatening us. Indeed, we would have friendly relations with Iran. Worst president I ever voted for. I see it much more clearly now than I did back in the 70's. The least he could do is stay home in Georgia and leave us alone. Why is he conducting his own foreign policy anyway? Isn't there a law against it or does he think he's still president?
70. Mr Carter: You are morally blind & way out of your depth
David Egyes ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (04.18.08)
You were voted out of office over 27 years ago because of the abysmal failure of your philosophy, and the moral and spiritual impoverishment of your world view. This is characterized primarily by your life-long inability to differentiate between good and evil, and penchant for granting legitimacy to the cruelest tyrants. Do you think Jesus would have supported Hamas?
71. #28 Ahmed - A little incite into Carter
Squalid Ibn Harman ,   Qtir   (04.18.08)
First of all since you wrote forcefully but respectfully advocating your position, I will answer you in a respectful manner as well. If all we knew about Carter was limited to what was written here, I could understand your point. However, Carter totally mishandled the hostage crisis in Iran. While the Shah and the Savak may not have been ideal, Iran enjoyed a very high standard of living in almost every aspect of life. Under Carter's watch Khomeini rose to power and mushroomed into the worst threat the world has ever known with Arab/Moslem threatening almost every nation from Japan, Phillipines, India, France, England, Spain, etc. Instead of joining with Russia to fight the Taliban, Carter boycotted the Olympics in 1980 and destroyed the hopes of many American athletes in a totally futile and infantile gesture. The fall of Iran was echoed with the fall of Lebanon which was once the Monaco of the Levant as Hezbollah took over Lebanon and murdered political leader after another. I began respectfully addressing an adversary. Another such adversary was Anwar Sadat who first used cunning to attack us on Yom Kippur the Holiest Day but later lost the war. In the end he fathered the new rules of politics in the Middle East and initiated the speech in Israel before the Kenneset which ultimately lead to peace accords between Israel and Egypt. Carter was a worthless parasite who hitchhiked on the momentum of Begin and Sadat and contributed absolutely nothing. In fact Carter only lasted 1 term and was resoundingly booted out of office by the American public. But to really understand what an idiot Jimmy is one must look back to his family. One famous incident was with his "smarter" brother Billy who was followed by the press. One day Billy was going down the stairs of a private plane at an airport and had to urinate. So he proceeded to urinate on the tarmac in front of all of the reporters. This may give you an incite into Carter's genetics. If you look at Carter's family tree you will see that his father is still in the tree and they have been trying to get him down for years.
72. to Ahmed in London
Susan ,   Kfar Saba   (04.18.08)
I sleep very well thank you, in this holy land that the Creator of the world gave to the Jewish people. Even the Koran says that He gave it to us. If your co-religionists weren't shooting at us every day, we wouldn't need to retaliate. It's very nice of you to judge us from London where all is quiet, but I doubt that if the occupied Scots were firing into England, your government wouldn't fight back. This is actually a very nice country for peaceful Arabs who live in Israel. They shop in the same stores as I, study in the same colleges, get treatment in the same hospitals. As I was shopping for Passover this week, Arabs and Jews were both shoppers and employees of the same supermarket. Arabs and Jews get along quite well here on many levels, so much for Carter's "apartheid." I saw a program on tv once about the Holocaust about a brother and sister who fought with the partisans in the Ukraine when they were young. The sister said something that stayed with me. She said that they were not violent people, but that the Nazi's forced them to be violent. That's how I feel about the situation now.
73. Your Excellency; why don't you rest?
Daniel ,   Israel   (04.18.08)
74. Carter: Gaza residents 'starving to death' - here's PROOF
CK Tan ,   Singapore, Singapore   (04.18.08)
During the 2-week Egyptian border breach, the palis spent 100s of US$ millions, practically wiping out supplies at Egypt border towns. The so-called impoverised refugees bought "ESSENTIALS" that include TV sets, motorbikes, air conditioners, mobile phones, cigarettes, mattresses, etc. In comparison, the refuguees in Darfur get by with grains and other edibles. So carter probably thinks that the Darfurians MUST be OVERFED.
75. Hamas has a simple solution to starvation
Psalms 83 ,   Selah   (04.18.08)
Stop its terrorist activities and the launching of Qassams ....Israel will respond in kind.... ....my understanding hamas place thier launchers near populated areas because the mass casualties gains international sympathies...
76. peanut monkey agress that Isreal is getting it right
mori   (04.18.08)
peanut farmer is living proof that Israel is completely humanatarian. why else would they allow such a disfigured and diseased snail into the country. this peanut creature is little more than a worm infestating humans.
77. ahmed no 28 - carter
david ,   ashkelon israel   (04.18.08)
dear ahmed - we all see things from our own slanted perspective and only when we attempt to understand the other - will we achieve reconciliation. 3 years ago israel decided correctly or not that the only way the 2 sides could move forward was to leave gaza ,with all the infrastucture intact. this was not a gesture of war but of reconciliation,ahmed and mr carter, this was not an attempt to strangle a nation ,but to give life to a nation and to a process, the next which was to to be the west bank.Strangely the response was a rain of missiles into Israel,the logic which is still hard to understand.So do we not have a RIGHT to defend ourselves,what would your response have been,just to go about your daily life with missiles raining down on you.more absurdely we supply half of gazas electricity from a southern power station, and hamas merrily shoot missiles at the power station that gives them their daily needs.retarded thinking?no a lot worse.we have a right to defend ourselves which is what we are doing to STOP the missile and other attacks on us. tough luck that we do it with logic andwith intelligence.hamas is its own worse enemy and if our attacks make hamas stronger ,well just another eg of retarded thinking. so wake up mr carter and dear ahmed, show a gesture of peace and believe me you'll get all you want.show that you will genuinely accept us and you'll be surprised.
78. Starving? Most women in Gazza are fat!
JAy3 ,   Israel   (04.18.08)
79. to ahmed and all the arabs..
matan ,   hadera,israel   (04.18.08)
well-as usual,you can't see anything but your own false truth.if another nation was attacked daily by missiles and plots such as this,the entire village from where the terrorists went out will be bombarded. so don't tell me the crap about israel's policy-the palestinians chose hamas,and now they suffer at the consequences!i see that if they have money to buy weapons,they also have the money for food,right?and if israel is a CONQUERING nation-then we will "cut the bond" between us and gaza,and you are free to declare a palestinians state.but oops!the palestinians want both things-to kill israel and that israel will feed their ambitions and it's enemies!! go find yourself something more useful to do..
80. Failure as a president, still a failure as an ex-president.
Bunnie Meyer ,   Santa Monica,CA USA   (04.18.08)
81. to #71
Susan ,   Kfar Saba   (04.18.08)
You are absolutely right. Carter made a mess of not only the US's foreign policy, but the economy as well, with double digit inflation and interest rates. It took Ronald Reagen to fix the mess Carter made.
82. To Ahmed
Susan ,   Kfar Saba   (04.18.08)
You're watching too much Al Jazeera.
83. War is not a sport like tennis or ping pong
redmike ,   Tel Aviv, London, LA   (04.18.08)
Whoever came up with the idea of "proportional" and "disproportional' responses was confusing sport and war and needs to have their brains tested. And so does anybody that thinks the concept is sane. Why should a response to an attack be proportional? Mike
84. Carter's brain is starved of oxygen,senilety has set in
Dany Toren ,   Haifa Israel   (04.18.08)
85. #28 Ahmed: It's OK to kill Jewish Civilians
Semsem ,   New York, USA   (04.18.08)
#28. You always seek pity while it is you who murder and terrorise Jewish civilians with indiscriminate rocket attacks. Jews have a right to defend themselves. You think you will destroy the Jews? Go dream and study Jewish history. All our enemies were finally defeated. We survived the Pharoes, the Romans, the Greeks, the Spanish and the Germans / Austrians, the Cossaks etc. We will survive the Arabs.
86. All their leaders are obese,oozing fat.You can't see their e
Danny Toren ,   Haifa Israel   (04.18.08)
87. No.74 CkTan,Singapore
Danny Toren ,   Haifa Israel   (04.18.08)
And they paid for all these goods in fake American dollars that were supplied by Iran,and that were printed in North Korea.The poor Bedouins of Sinai got shafted by these Balestinians.Now Gaza is flooded by Fake US dollars.
88. Hamas incapable of administering functional society
Steve   (04.18.08)
Carter, by now Gaza might have developed into another Dubai. Hotels, resorts, convention centers, and malls should have paved the way for a robust economy which Israel most assuredly would have supported and embraced. Instead the backwards Palestinians destroyed virtually all of the sophisticated infrastructure left behind for scrap metal and copper pipes. They replaced it with rubble, Gaza's primary commodity, and continued to move time backwards until the region resembles a seventh century village complete with the latest in ox cart technology. Work to develop your society or run around in ski masks like ninja wannabes, the choice is yours fools.
89.  A GEORGE WASHINGTON?
ROLAND SEENER ,   LONDON ENGLAND   (04.18.08)
HE IS SO WELL IN WITH THE MOSLEM WORLD,DESPITE THE PERSIAN EMBASSY SEIGE WHEN HE WAS PRESIDENT,THAT HE COULD HAVE BEEN INDUCED AND CORRUPTED INORDER TO MAKE CONSTANT AND BIASED STATEMENTS AGAINST ISRAEL.IF HE WAS SUCH A PRESIDENT TEMPTED BY GREED,THERE IS ALSO THE THOUGHT THAT IF HE COULD STEEP SO LOW HE ALSO COULD BE THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO IMPART U.S.A. SECRETS TO OTHERS,WHICH WOULD MEAN THAT HE WOULD BE THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO BE BRANDED "A TRAITOR" THIS NON-GEORGE WASHINGTON...MEANS. THAT THERE IS A POSSIBILITY.. " HE COULD TELL A LIE.",THEREFORE FURTHER INVESTIGATION IS NECESSARY TO INVESTIGATE MORE CLOSELY WHAT HE DID DURING HIS PRESIDENCY
90. Mr. Carter
AlbertoGA ,   Houston   (04.18.08)
It is obvious Mr. Carter hate Jews, Israelis etc... It is clear after his visit with the Hamas...that the man want to help the Terrorists. He has just to go as far as his wallet to help them. It is time to put an end to this Charade.
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