President Carter says "even-handed" to Bush re I/P peace

[RamboLiberal]

Ha. Thank you President Carter. Think Jimmy was smacking Lieberman, Berman and Pelosi for attacking Dean for saying this last week! Is Holy Joe now going to condemn Carter? Are Berman and Pelosi going to circulate a letter?

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030915/D7TJ31001.html

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"The only way this can be done is by the extreme, concerted commitment of the president of the United States or his top representatives - preferably himself - and a balanced approach between the two adversarial groups," Carter said.

"You have to let the Palestinians know we are representing their key interests," and you have to let the Israelis know the same, Carter said.

"The United States is not being evenhanded," Carter said by telephone from his home in Plains, Ga. "You have to have a mediator, willing to negotiate freely with both sides, and equally firmly with both sides."

[CMT]

1. this backs Dean's statement up

and I think it is the right way to approach the middle east. We can't be an honest broker if we are constantly taking Israels side. Yes, they are our ally and we will always protect her, but Carter's approach during his administration was more even handed and had more success.

[RamboLiberal]

3. Yep - I'm smiling

cause I just emailed this to Lieberman, Berman and Pelosi asking if they're going to chastise President Carter!

:kick:

[beanball]

6. Sent an E

to Pelosi's office recieved a reply.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

13. ..and...?

:wtf: does the reply say? lol

[mlawson]

2. If Dumbo had ANY sense at all,

he would ask his handlers if the WH could send both Carter and Bill Clinton to the ME as Envoys Extraordinary. What a team that would be!

But, nooooooooooooooo........

[w4rma]

4. President Carter is getting back into the fight! You tell 'em!

I double dog dare Sen. Lieberman (or Sen. Kerry) to jump on President Carter for this!
:bounce::bounce::bounce:

[Divernan]

5. Carter spent 13 days in isolation at Camp David with leaders

of Israel and Palestine; Bush could never do that - he had to take a whole month's vacation at the faux ranch with many side fundraising trips -- well really not exactly just fundraising. It was more collecting payoffs.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. Are You Sure You Don't Mean Israel and Egypt?

nt

[mlawson]

9. It was Begin and Sadat.

I was living in DC at the time. I took my lunch hour late so that I could stand in Lafayette Park when the treaty was signed. All I could see were the damn reporters hovering around the desk they had set up on the North WH lawn. But I did see the top of Sadat's head for a fraction of a second!!! :-)

[w4rma]

10. Yes

…
Carter negotiated over 13 days in 1978 at the presidential retreat with the late Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to come up with the Camp David accords. Sadat was assassinated by Muslim fundamentalists in 1981. Begin died in 1992.
…

[wtmusic]

7. Totally intentional

Elder statesmanship at its best.

[babzilla]

11. ruh-roh

Just goes to show ya, give 'em a nobel peace prize and it goes straight to their head.

ixnay on the veneay andednesshay Jimmy, didn't you get the Pelosi memo?


"The United States is not being evenhanded," Carter said by telephone from his home in Plains, Ga. "You have to have a mediator, willing to negotiate freely with both sides, and equally firmly with both sides."

[Demobrat]

12. Nov. 7, 1994 - Dean wins election. Nov. 8, 1994 -

Carter leaves for mideast.

[Sean Reynolds]

15. You mean 2004?

Cause it'll be hard for Dean to win in '94! :)

[Demobrat]

18. Ummm.

Yeah.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

14. Nice.

Carter pays Dean back for working on his campaign. Good deed breeds good deed.

[0007]

16. This is great news!

Bring on Clinton and Carter to bring peace. junior can't.

[Bush_has_Parvo]

17. Thank you, President Carter!

The whole affair was stupid, anyway. Lieberman never did address why "evenhanded" is a bad thing to say.

[Dr Fate]

19. Carter and Dean are right-evenhanded does NOT mean "anti Jewish"

It means "even handed"- not pro Jewish or pro-Palestine- but EVEN HANDED-

I fail to see why any objective person from any culture could get a different meaning of the word and think it means anti Jewish.

[Woodstock]

20. Thank you President Carter

I respect Jimmy Carter a great deal.