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Jimmy Carter: Once more on the side of the Palestinians
Writing in today’s Washington Post, the former president calls makes a plea for the US and Israel to not “punish” the Palestinians as a result of the recent elections there where the terrorist group Hamas won a majority of Parliament seats. Furthermore, he seems to still want to believe that Hamas is interested in a peaceful coexistence with Israel (emphasis added):
The role of the prime minister was greatly strengthened while Abbas and Ahmed Qureia served in that position under Yasser Arafat, and Abbas has announced that he will not choose a prime minister who does not recognize Israel or adhere to the basic principles of the “road map.” This could result in a stalemated process, but my conversations with representatives of both sides indicate that they wish to avoid such an imbroglio. The spokesman for Hamas claimed, “We want a peaceful unity government.” If this is a truthful statement, it needs to be given a chance.
During this time of fluidity in the formation of the new government, it is important that Israel and the United States play positive roles. Any tacit or formal collusion between the two powers to disrupt the process by punishing the Palestinian people could be counterproductive and have devastating consequences.
Unfortunately, these steps are already underway and are well known throughout the Palestinian territories and the world. Israel moved yesterday to withhold funds (about $50 million per month) that the Palestinians earn from customs and tax revenue. Perhaps a greater aggravation by the Israelis is their decision to hinder movement of elected Hamas Palestinian Legislative Council members through any of more than a hundred Israeli checkpoints around and throughout the Palestinian territories. This will present significant obstacles to a government’s functioning effectively. Abbas informed me after the election that the Palestinian Authority was $900 million in debt and that he would be unable to meet payrolls during February. Knowing that Hamas would inherit a bankrupt government, U.S. officials have announced that all funding for the new government will be withheld, including what is needed to pay salaries for schoolteachers, nurses, social workers, police and maintenance personnel. So far they have not agreed to bypass the Hamas-led government and let humanitarian funds be channeled to Palestinians through United Nations agencies responsible for refugees, health and other human services.
This common commitment to eviscerate the government of elected Hamas officials by punishing private citizens may accomplish this narrow purpose, but the likely results will be to alienate the already oppressed and innocent Palestinians, to incite violence, and to increase the domestic influence and international esteem of Hamas. It will certainly not be an inducement to Hamas or other militants to moderate their policies.
Evidently, Mr. Carter needs to be reminded about a few things here. First, the recent statement Hamas leader Khaled Meshal (emphasis added):
JERUSALEM, Jan. 28 — The exiled political head of the radical Islamic group Hamas said Saturday in Damascus, Syria, that the group would adopt “a very realistic approach” toward governing the Palestinian Authority and would work with the Fatah president, Mahmoud Abbas, on an acceptable political program.
But the leader, Khaled Meshal, also said Hamas would not “submit to pressure to recognize Israel, because the occupation is illegitimate and we will not abandon our rights” nor would it disarm, but would work to create a unified Palestinian army.
He insisted that “resistance is a legitimate right that we will practice and protect” and he defended attacks on Israeli civilians, which included many suicide bombings until a cease-fire nearly a year ago. Then he said Hamas was “ready to work with Europe and even the United States if they wish.”
The former prez also needs to be refreshed on the Hamas agenda (via their charter):
“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”
[…]
“The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up.”
[…]
“There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.”
He’s also needs to realize that Hamas is not a “militant” group – I know he rejects the use of the word “terrorists” to describe Hamas, but frankly there is no other way around it. They are what they are: terrorists It’s like calling the 9-11 terrorists militants. It just doesn’t fit. The sooner Carter realizes that the better.
Carter continues to be an embarassment on the world stage regarding the Middle East peace process. I respect his work with Habitat for Humanity but as far as his international savvy, he’s sorely lacking and quite frankly I wish he’d put a lid on it.
More: Ankle Biting Pundits slams Carter’s latest attempt at appeasement.
Related Toldjah So posts:
- NYT denounces US, Israel on handling of Hamas – but praises Putin
- House Republican to introduce bill to slash PA funding
- Hamas leader won’t change attitude towards Israel
- LATimes channels Jimmy Carter on Hamas
- Bad news for the Middle East – Hamas wins Palestinian elections
- Jimmy Carter and the “so-called terrorists”
- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffers severe stroke
- UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
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Can your silly and hateful strawman arguments, GBA, or you’re outta here. –ST
Fatah ran a terrible election campaign and paid the price. Fatah got 56% of the popular vote and 44% of the assembly seats. Fatah was corrupt and it’s youngest leadership is in Israeli prisons. Two things do not need to happen: 1. A civil war in Israel. 2. A civil war in Palestine. The situation is like a starving person carring a bowl of steaming hot soup. The person moves slowly so as not to get burned or spill the soup. Pray for Peace and calm for all parties. Peace
Both sides must want actual peace in order for it to happen. Peace isn’t killing all Israelies.
ST,
Did you check your email yet for my response?
“We want a peaceful unity government.” If this is a truthful statement, it needs to be given a chance.
- Just because we scream for the iradication of all you pig jooooosss, is no reason why you shouldn’t support us….
- I’m convinced Carter has slipped the bounds of sanity….
- Bang
The best thing the United States and Israel can do is the exact opposite of what Jimmy Carter says we should do. Jimmy Carter’s been on the wrong side of international problems since his Presidency just look at how he handled the Iranian militants that held 54 Americans hostage for 444 days. Jimmy Carter placed an embargo on imports of oil from Iran he also froze all Iranian assets in the U.S. We had our Embassy’s in Tripoli and in Islamabad attacked then Carter expels most of Iran’s diplomats in the U.S. Then Jimmy Carter breaks all diplomatic ties with Iran. All remaining Iranian diplomats are expelled from the U.S and all exports to Iran are banned. The U.S. attempts a surprise rescue mission to free the hostages. Eight U.S. Marines are killed and five more wounded when two helicopters collide at night in the desert staging area. The rescue attempt is aborted as a result of the accident. The Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, dies in exile. His return to Iran was the primary demand of the militants that had taken the hostages from the United States Embassy. Never the less, the U.S. hostages in Tehran are not released. Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States and the Ayatollah Khomeini and the other Mullahs (Weird beards) knew the Carter weak-kneed policy was over. Having been in captivity for 444 days, the hostages are finally released. “Enough said”!
The exact opposite is genocide of the Palestinians via starvation, oppression and deadly military force.
I cannot support genocide Jim M.
Bang,
Carter and sanity mentioned in the same sentence?
Actually the exact opposite of “not withholding government aid”, is “withholding government aid”. I agree with Jim. If you do the opposite of what Jimmy suggests, you are very likely doing something good for the world.
Another reason why Carter was a one-term president.
GBA,
So you are saying that if Israel and the United States hold funding to the Palestinians they will start dropping dead from starvation? You are also saying the Palestinians can not feed themselves they are totally helpless? If that is the case we have enough freeloading leaches in this country we don’t need a whole country of Welfare recipients! The reason for holding support is to simply say we do not support Terrorist, Terror and any Government that supports it period!! How you some how get genocide out of that is really comical.
What does Carter know about peace anyhow?
He only won a Nobel Peace Prize. ‘
People used to say the same things about Menachem Begin.
He also won the Nobel.
Punishing all Palestinians for the acts of a few is not justice.
And if you wish for peace you must work for justice. It’s that simple.
Jim M,
I hear you in that we should not support any terrorist organization with money. However the Palestinians are dependent on Israel for water, electricity and food. Which the Isralis sell to them at terribly inflated prices. Their farm land has been a ll but confiscated by the Israelis. Their civil infrastructure has been nearly destroyed due to years of fighting. And most palestinians that have work, it’s usually for Israelis at less than what would be paid to Israelis. They are essentially slaves imprisoned in a smaller and smaller cage every year. The Israeli economy depends on cheap Palestinian labor much in the way the US depends on illegal workers from Mexico.
They can’t manufacture anything with out the Israelis bombing their factories. They have no financial markets. The education system is nearly non-existant. Hospitals are antiquated and severely underfunded. Unemployment is over 50%.
It’s been like this for thirty years.
But why can’t the US send our military into Palestine. They can relieve the Israelis of the burden of occupation and provide humanitarian assistance (not money) to those who need it. This way Israel can go back behind the green line and the Palestinians can have their land back. We can invade Iraq so it stands to reason that we can easily take over an area smaller than the state of Delaware. We can employ many Americans to rebuild Palestine creating lots of ex-pat jobs for Americans. This way we all win. The Israelis need only guard their border, the Pals get their lives back and we Americans citizens will make some money. And in the end we’ll be able to take those billions of dollars of welfare money we give and spend that on bettering the educations of our children here in America.
GBA wrote this charge, “However the Palestinians are dependent on Israel for water, electricity and food. Which the Isralis sell to them at terribly inflated prices.
I’ve read a lot (over a 1,000 pages) on this subject and haven’t seen this charge. Can you supply evidence to your charge? Plus how is it that Israel is able to jack up the charge for anything. Palestinians are poor. How would they buy anything that is inflated? And why are they dependant on Israel? Wouldn’t they be more dependant on Jordan or others who are supportive?
Also. The bunch that I have read dispells that myth that “their farm land has been all but confiscated” as you wrote. The land that was utilized for development or Israel farmland was dormant. It’s like calling a hunk of metal a car and sayin, “HEY THEY STOLE MY CAR”.
I suggest you have been reading a bunch fo propoganda from what you’ve written.
You are probably one who believes in the Jenin massacre though there is evidence on both sides of the debate it’d only take common sense to read through the material and realize that it didn’t happen the way the one side is saying it happened.
GBA,
James Earl Carter stuck his nose in the North Korean nuclear crisis and brokered a deal enabling the “Norks” to produce nuclear weapons to threaten the world with. That isn’t peace in our time, but Carter stupidity. James Earl Carter is a fool who can’t be trusted with more than a hammer, nails, and someone else’s blueprint for building a house.
Carter will be sinking his son’t Jack’s senate campaign in Nevada.
Baklava,
I was very polite in calling you on your alleged 14% tax revenue growth rate. I provided you with the budgets that clearly refute your claims.
I would be more than happy to stuff you with this one too.
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Personally I own 5 cars and I don’t drive all of them but even though I don’t it doesn’t mean I would let anyone steal them from me no matter what their condition. The same goes for all the acreage I own. Just because I don’t live on most of it in no way suggest that I should let someone else deprive me of it. That argument is just plain stupid.
I don’t know what happened in Jenin. I was not there. But this guy was and here is his story in his own words
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BAM!
Hey GBA Yasser Aarafat won the Nobel Peace Prize also and he was a Terrorist!
Alfred Nobel was the man whose inventions include dynamite and Ballistite, which led to the death of millions of people. He created the Nobel Prize in an effort to make up for what he believed to be past evils. According to the will of Alfred Nobel, the prize should be awarded “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses”.
Just a reminder of how the Noble Peace Prize should be awarded!
GPA said “Punishing all Palestinians for the acts of a few is not justice”.
Did not the Palestinians elect Hamas for their leadership?
GBA I challenge you to find a map that shows a country of Palestine and not something that was drawn up by the Palestinians I mean an actual world map. If the rest of the Arab countries want the Palestinians to have a country they could give up some of their land but they won’t. If they are depend on the Israelis for water, electricity and food then why do they kill innocent Israelis with suicide bombers that’s kind of like biting the hand that feeds you isn’t it? If Hamas didn’t keep using some of their “factories” to make bombs for the suicide bombers Israel would not have to blow them up. If the Palestinians used their minds to produce things instead of the hatred and the determination to destroy Israel the unemployment rate wouldn’t be 50%. The best way to Educate American children is to do away with the Government School monopoly in this country competition is the best answer. But the problem with Government schools is another argument.
Winning the Nobel Peace Prize only means you are anti-American values. The word ‘Peace’ is just put in there for show.
Punishing is very different from ‘not supporting’. We are only ‘not supporting’ them. You seem to want peace, but you keep speaking in terms of ‘appease’. Appeasement has never worked on evil people since the times of Atilla the Hun. Why do you think it will work on Hamas?
Your “BAM!” would be a little more potent, GBA, if you could cite some non-propaganda/opinion piece sources for your claims. Got any?
PCD,
So what. The Bush crew provided China with Satelite and rocket technology. Reagan sold arms to Iran. G.H. Bush brought cocaine into the United States and armed the Contras. Rumsfeld sold Saddam weapons of mass destruction.
We are in the business of selling death. We do this by selling arms and drugs all over the world. This is why we fight. Our economy depends on arms sales and exploiting our military for corporate financial gain. I am not saying this is bad it’s just the way it is. We have effectively privatized the business of war. Even ITT tech is promoting skill training as weapons contractors. It’s part of our national fabric.
Besides the “Norks” are nearly broke and can barely afford Nuclear power much less Nuclear weapons. Most people see Carter as a great humanitarian even though his effectiveness as President was very limited and weak.
The world bank is not Propaganda.
GBA, first off, it was CLINTON and Loral who sold China that technology for CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS!
As for the rest of your recycled propaganda, just put up a link and quit wasting the bandwidth.
GBA,
The Clinton “crew” were the ones that provided the technology it China not Bush!
ST,
You constantly refer to other blogs as if they were bonafide sources of fact. And now you tell me that The World Bank report and a an Israeli Soldiers own words are propaganda or op/ed.
I can’t force you to believe anything. If these people are lying who is telling the truth. I am merely stating the facts as I find them.
No embellishments. Just as they are.
Perhaps the world is flat.
“Most people see Carter as a great humanitarian even though his effectiveness as President was very limited and weak.”
As you’ve done before here, GBA, you miss the point. Carter is the last person who should be lecturing anyone about the art of negotiation and diplomacy with regards to the Palestinian/Israel conflict. You know why, in part, Carter won the Nobel Peace prize, right? Because of the North Korea deal. What happened with that deal, GBA? We know what happened. As I recall, he didn’t do much towards the Palestinian/Isreal peace process when he was president, either. The man thinks Hamas is open to negotiation on recognizing Israel as a state. They are not. I’ve provided clear links that back up that assertion (is it time for ME to say “BAM!” now?) What’s stupid is for anyone to pretend that they are. Carter’s cluelessness extends to his belief that Hamas shouldn’t even be called a terrorist group. Apparently about the only people left who believe in Carter’s credibility on a world stage are the people who’d choose appeasement over hardline stances towards dictatorial/terorist regimes – and you.
“The world bank is not Propaganda.”
Yes it is, much in the same way WH.gov is. The rest of your sources are propaganda as well.
GBA wrote, “I provided you with the budgets that clearly refute your claims.
You didn’t. Revenue growth DID grow at 14.1% I’m sorry if you don’t “feel” that it didn’t.
From the opinion pieces you linked I couldn’t find evidence for your claim about overcharging the Pal’s for food water and electricity.
In a war on terror which Israel has been in for a fewe decades now you’l see all sort of ridiculous claims to gain sympathy. It is clear they have you won over. I don’t agree with everything EITHER side is ding but I recognize one thing and that is Islamofacists who call themselves Palestinians will have to recognize the right of Israel to exist and stop going into cafe’s, batmitzvah’s, weddings and blowing themselves up and teaching their kids to hate Israels so much on their Sesame street type progranms that offer nothing but hate.
Ouch, is it just me or does the contrast on this blog make it almost unreadable when I click on comments? Black letters on a dark background don’t work.
FYI
Jim M,
During the Bush (41) term he made a huge technology transfer of Aegis Missile Destroyers and fighter planes to R.O.C. My good friend worked on the Aegis project with Bath Iron Works. But lets say for argument sakes the Clinton traded satellite and payload delivery technology.
Who traded what and to whom is not my point. My point is that our biggest export as a governament is war related materials and services. We are a symbol for freedom and also the merchants of death. It’s a crazy duality. JFK said somthing to the effect of the United States being the greatest friend and also the greatest foe. I just read and I can’t remember it verbatim. I found it in the Patriots Handbook. So go read the entire speech for yourself.
And if you insist on comparing Bush with Clinton all I have to say about that is Mena, Arkansas. They are the same. A Bonesman is a Bonesman. So look it up search both of their names with Mena. And ask your self why a town of 5000 people needs a 12,000 ft runway that is not open to the public nor is occupied my the military officially. Here’s another useful but hardly known fact. SDI works so selling missile and satellite technology is not really that much of a security issue for Americans as you would think. The scary part is a rogue faction getting control of those items and sneaking it back into the US.
Ok if all I post is propaganda and op/ed where is the truth?
Is it on Michele Malkins Blog?
If the media, the World Bank, the white house (as per ST), NGO humanitarian groups, eyewitness soldiers, encyclopedias and government sources are all lying who is telling the truth?
I just want to know where to find the truth.
“If the media, the World Bank, the white house (as per ST), NGO humanitarian groups, eyewitness soldiers, encyclopedias and government sources are all lying who is telling the truth?”
*sigh* Yet another strawman. I didn’t say ‘all of them were lying.’ My implication was that the sites you posted links to have clear biases. Try links from the mainstream media next time. Although they are sometimes untrustworthy, you can find stories out there that provide the facts you seek and the data you’re looking for.
I find it hard to believe that if I said something like “we don’t torture people” and you asked me for a link and I provided a link to GWB’s speech about how we don’t torture people, that you’d believe it as fact.
In fact, you wouldn’t.
Don’t play this source game, GBA.
ST,
Good point on the Spech v.Torture issue.
But more than once…..actually many times you have posted threads scathing with disdain for the Mainstream media. So you are making no sense to me at all.
One minute the media is lying and the next they are reliable is this what you are saying?
I am seriously confused.
“Facts are meaningless…they can be used to prove anything”
Homer Simpson
There is nothing confusing about this at all, GBA. I despise media bias, and the biggest problem with some in the media is the slant they put in their stories. However, I’ve never said the media was entirely untrustworthy.
ST,
I subcribe to a service called Paperboy so I read online papers from all over the world.
IndiaTimes is a fav. Asiatimes is good.
Do you have any suggestions?
I know you don’t like direct sourcing so what do you suggest?
Watching that three ring circus put on by the effette Royal AmeriKan press last week, doesn’t leave much reason to think they are “trustworthy”, as much as partisan hedonistic left wing hacks ST. But as conservatives we aren’t allowed the feckless beating down of our opponents offered to the left, so as usual we’ll be expected to “be sensitive” and look for the “good” in the others pov. Feh and double feh…
Before the state of Israel was declared by the United Nations in 1948, the land that Israel sits on was controlled by whom? Peace
- Maybe the Palistinians can access some of that 62 billion that Araflab had salted away while he polished his Nobel prize and they suffered. Oh wait. I think the French higherarchy and his widow got most of that already…
- Bang
steve, the land was part of TRANSJORDAN, not a “Palestine” state. Get your history right.
PCD,
Are you sure?
Where was Palestine then?
Where was TransJordan again?
Wasn’t this two parts of the British Mandate of Palestine with TransJordan being east of the river Jordan and Palestine being west of the river?
Carter, like Osama, just keeps popping up and telling us he is still relevant.
The time has arrived to seperate Zionism and Israel. That will most likely happen in the March elections in Israel. Kadima, should deliver the last nail into Likud’s coffin. Peace
GBA- The Palestinian people are starving themselves. They have chosen this government. This government is hell bent on destroying Israel. It just isn’t going to happen. If they starve, it will be by choice, in which case it is suicide, and not genocide as you seem to think. It case you haven’t been following our foreign policy, we will not support the destruction of Israel. Instead of trying to convince us of how this is somehow the fault of the US, you may want to figure out how they can make it without our money.
I am not sure what it is that you were attempting to convey with the ownership of your cars and property. Do you think either of those countries is holding the title to the land?
I for one whole-heartedly support Israel and the US not helping Hamas. If they want to act like spoiled kids who demand assistance but give nothing in return, then we should treat them as such. When they get over their temper-tantrum and agree that Israel has a right to exist and further agree not to attack it, then we can talk.
Until then, giving them money is giving money to your enemy. Only a fool would knowingly do that. And Jimmy Carter of course.
Pam,
The 60% Pals have been starving prior to the election according to UNHRW.
The thing about the cars was a response to Baklava who said “The land that was utilized for development or Israel farmland was dormant. It’s like calling a hunk of metal a car and sayin, “HEY THEY STOLE MY CAR”.
HAMAS is a very bad thing and for the most part the single greatest terror threat to Israel. We all agree on this. But I don’t think it’s fair to cut aid to the an already imprisoned and impoverished country/people. These folks have next to nothing and some of them have lived their entire adult lives living off humanitarian aid. But I think it’s important to remember that Israel does not want Palestine to exist as a state either and they have actively worked to drive the Palestinians out of ther West Bank and Gaza since the 1920′s and vice versa.
They have tried to fighting, talking and a host of other concepts and nothing has worked. The one thing that is for certain is they cannot do it for themselves.
So I think the US should step in and occupy palestine so the Israelis can go back behind the green line where they belong. This way we can rebuild Palestine and install a friendly government(probably of US conscripts at first) that will foster peace. This way would ultimately save Ameraican tax payers billions. And save both parties many lives. Because after we get Palestine running a free democratic society we can stop throwing awy money in aid to both countries as well as Egypt. That’s over 10 billion dollars that can go back to Americans where it belongs. As well as helping us with our Islam hating public image. We intervene all over the world so why is Palestine a sacred cow.
US(2.1 Bn) aid makes up over two thirds of the gross domestic product for the occupied Palestine. And about 3% of Israels GDP with some years aid packages being as high as 14 billion dollars but usually about 4 billion.
This conflict is a waste of national treasure and something must be done to stop bleeding our economy. It’s just not worth it. We spend more on foreign aid that we spend educating our children. There is something extremely wrong with this.
Heh, now Carter is on CNN saying that Hamas would be peaceful, and we should give the money to the UN to dole out to Palestine. Now there’s a plan! It should work out at least as well as the great oil for food success story. (video at the political teen)
Carter has let go of the real world and has moved on to the rose colored domain of fantasyland.
Yes GBA. You’re right. Whats wrong is America keeps getting attacked and dragged into these third world battles. I guess thats what we get for being infidel dogs and the best customer of ME oil.
- Bang
Bang,
When any country is occupyiing 725 military bases in 135 countries they will undoubtably encounter violent opposition from time to time.
We have not fought in a third world country since Somalia. We could have helped Rwanda but we did nothing.
I hear you about the religious extremist.Radical Islamic fundamentalist don’t represent true Islam. Just in the same way that extremist Christian fundamentalist don’t represent true Christianity.
I am a very tolerant man and I don’t subscribe to bigoted religious rhetoric form any sect or religious group. I am not saying you do. I am just saying I deplore religious based hatred.
Perhaps instead of money we can send food aid until the situation improves or changes for the better. But starving hundreds of thousands of children to punish a small group of terrorist is risky business and a diplomatic nightmare at best.
GBA- Carter wants Israel to give money to Palestine..that is like asking Americans to support AlQaida. The people were starving before Hamas was elected? Why? We and other countries have been sending aid..why are the people starving…those starving people elected this government..those sarving people can live or not by their decision…If they were starving before the money was cut off, than obviously there is a problem that is not being addressed in the equation. Let their hate for the Jews see them through their darkest hours, but the money is cut off.
- Actually I think thats a great idea GBA. send any form of humanitarian aid the extremists can’t turn into fodder for the Jihad. Thats absolutely basic, getting aid to the children and people. That just leaves the problem of how to keep the government afloat. Tough call.
- Bang
Jimmah,
You were in power when we had what was the second or third worst terror attack on Americans in history ‘The American Hostages Held In Captivity In Iran.’ You couldn’t get things done then, and it appears much has not changed. However, I have noticed that one thing has changed! Former Presidents (no matter the party) were not voicing disgraceful ad hominem attacks or MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACKING your methods and decisions. If I am forced to say one thing nice about you it would be this: You have assisted many people in need of help with ‘Houses For Humanity.’ It is my opinion that you would be best off grabbing a hammer and sticking a couple nails in your mouth as a fulltime gig! This is the area in which you shine most! Thank you.
But starving hundreds of thousands of children to punish a small group of terrorist is risky business and a diplomatic nightmare at best. This is not a small group. The Palestinian people elected this group, therefore you add the Paestinian people to the group. I am sure the Red Cross or UNICEF can send in the food packs…I believe we have tried those in African Nations, but don’t they sit rotting as the government wont allow the people to have them?