T. Belman. As always, Carter couldn’t be more wrong about who is to blame. In a nutshell, the Security Council, by passing R 242, gave Israel the right to remain in Judea and Samaria until she had an agreement on borders. The PA/PLO accepted this resolution as a condition precedent to the Oslo Accords. The Accords are an agreed constitution for the territories as to their governance. until such time as the parties have agreed on borders and other final status issues. Thus the Palestinians have agreed to negotiate all matters.
They have no rights beyond R242 and the Oslo Accords. The TSS is dead because the PA, the EU, Carter and Obama didn’t want to accept these limitations or constraints.
Also, neither the Resolution or the Oslo Accords promised them a state and certainly didn’t promise them a state on the ’67 lines. And neither prohibited the settlements.
Former President says there is “zero chance” for the two-state solution, places the blame on Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Former President Jimmy Carter, who on Wednesday revealed he is suffering from cancer, on Thursday painted a bleak picture of the prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) – and placed the blame for the deadlock on Israel.
“At this moment, there is zero chance of the two-state solution,” Carter told the British Prospect Magazine in an interview.
“These are the worst prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinians for years,” he added, and then proceeded to say he didn’t think that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu “has any intention” of making progress towards the goal.
“The Netanyahu government decided early on to adopt a one-state solution, but without giving them [the Palestinians] equal rights,” he charged.
“They will never get equal rights [to Israeli Jews, within that single state],” predicted Carter, who added that he would like a drive to give them “more equal rights.”
Asked whether without a deal Israel was heading for apartheid, he said, “I am reluctant to use that word in a news article” but that there was real force to the argument because of the rising Arab population in areas of Judea and Samaria.
Either “Palestinians will have a majority in government” which the Jewish statewould not accept, he suggested, “or you deprive them of equal rights.”
Carter has made some controversial statements with regards to Israel in the past. In May 2014, the former President supported the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) unilateral push to join international organizations in breach of the ongoing peace talks with Israel and the 1993 Oslo Accords.
The year before, he called on the European Union (EU) to label products coming from “illegal Israeli settlements” – despite the fact that Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria is legal under international law.
In April, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin refused to meet Carter during a visit to Israel, with a senior diplomatic source saying that Carter is “permanently damaging” to Israel and that Israel’s leaders should refrain from meeting with him, on principle.
In May, he said he would not meet with Netanyahu, who had refused to meet him in any case, saying doing so would be a “waste of time.”
@ mookergee:
Carter is dying but Obama in the White House is carrying on his work.
Lets not forget that Carter is the one person who transformed Iran from being an ally and friend to the USA and Israel into a racist Islamic Apartheid state .He has also left his left wing antisemtic mark on Nicaragua , Venezuela and Bolivia .Anything this mans touches turns into a Sodom and Gemorah .Dying from cancer he still spews his devil hate against Israel . What a Pathetic old man .
The report of Carter’s cancer is the best news I’ve heard all year.
G-D will finally shut this Jew hater up.
TSS is already now 3SS with gaza and jordan as 2 pal states. Carter keeps swindling the Jews even on his welcome deathbed.
Pity the elmer gantry grinning, corrupt, lying bible salesman isn’t dead yet, his lies probably killed more jews than arafat. I wish him a suffering end.
Carter is the most relentlessly malicious anti-Semite in recent American history. When he dies, the world will be a better place and the population of hell will increase.
There is a common thread that connects carter with OBAMA and directly to the concept of the destruction of Israel. both carter and OBAMA went into office planning to diminish ISRAEL.
carter tried to bully Begin to accept less than a peace treaty in exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal from Sinai. carter was stuck with Begin kind of like OBAMA is stuck with NETANYAHU. If carter had been given a choice he would have picked Peres and if OBAMA could have been given a choice he would have chosen Livni or
yossie bailing. Progress towards “peace”, by definition , can only be the result of an exponentially increasing program of Israeli concessions, in every imaginable way. by voting for the OBAMA Iran surrender, politicians like feinschtunk or that grotesque monster in Minnesota frankenschtunk are giving Jews around the world at the most 10 to 15 years. Now, are we just going to passively walk into the gas chambers again, it sure appears that way. I do not intend to, not remotely.