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    Former President Carter backs Palestinian UN bid

    By GREG BLUESTEIN - Associated Press | AP – Tue, Sep 13, 2011

    ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday he supports the Palestinians' effort to secure statehood recognition at the United Nations this month, despite White House concerns for the region.

    The Georgia Democrat said he wouldn't be in favor of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' bid to win U.N. recognition if President Barack Obama's administration had "put forward any sort of comprehensive peace proposal." But he told Palestinians have few other options but to seek statehood since no deal is in the works.

    "As an alternative to a deadlock and a stalemate now, we reluctantly support the Palestinian move for recognition," he said at a town hall event at the Carter Center in Atlanta.

    In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she was sending top aides to Israel and the Palestinian territories to try to sway the Palestinians to drop their U.N. effort and bring the parties back to long-stalled talks.

    Although the path to full membership seems blocked because the U.S. promises to veto the bid in the Security Council, Palestinians hope for benefits that have eluded them for decades.

    Carter said Tuesday it would be a "real step forward" even if a nonmember Palestinian state were recognized.

    The Palestinian bid for recognition comes at a sensitive time. Once-strong ties between Israel and Turkey have frayed over Israel's refusal to apologize for its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last year that killed nine Turks. And, the Jewish state's ties with Egypt have been tested by the weekend attack on the Israeli Embassy in Cairo.

    The U.S., which regards all three as crucial allies, has moved to try to ease tensions but both Turkey and Egypt are expected to support Palestinian moves at the U.N.

    Carter said he doesn't believe the peace accord between Israel and Egypt is in any danger, voicing optimism for the future.

    "The Arab spring has brought hope for democracy and freedom to many of the people in the region ... and I hope that eventually it will potentially bring about a change in the prospects of a peace agreement to be negotiated between Israel and its neighbors," he said. "But it would require Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories and that's something that so far the Israeli government has been unable to do."

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    99 comments

    • glenn
      glenn  •  8 mths ago
      what a suprise, jimmy peanut farmer is on the palestinian's side. what a shock huh?
    • David G
      David G  •  8 mths ago
      Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden...two dimwitted buffoons, can't hardly tell them apart. They are the only two men, besides Al Gore, who make Barry Obama look stately and intelligent.
    • tarina
      tarina  •  8 mths ago
      worst prisdents we ever had, #!1 loose liberal lyndon b johnson, good for nothing jimmy carter, bill clinton along with barney franks housing finanical bank melt down, obama would rate right in their with jimmy carter.
    • flypapa
      flypapa  •  8 mths ago
      He REALLY does not like Isreal!
    • Larry
      Larry  •  8 mths ago
      Jimmy Carter is yesterday's man, Mister Nobody, Joe Citizen. He certainly has freedom of speech but it's not more valid or authoritative than that of your local cab driver. At least George W. Bush has the good sense to avoid all talk about politics and leave the governance of the nation to those in office.
    • O'Bama-Marx 2012
      O'Bama-Marx 2012  •  8 mths ago
      Did someone shove their hand up Carter's chute today to revive him for his thoughts? Jimmah, I don't think you understand....we don't give a rats arse what you think about ANYTHING! Just go away!! Far, far away!!!! I mean #$%$?? I'm beginning to think Carter is a narcissist like O'Bama.
    • The Rod
      The Rod  •  8 mths ago
      Well, as "Gomer Pile" ( a fictional cousin to Jimmy Carter) once used to say; "SURPRISE! SURPRISE!" We never saw this one coming; did we?
    • paul
      paul  •  8 mths ago
      Carter continues to be an embarrassment to America. Yet another reason government officials shouldn't receive any type of compensation after leaving office.
    • Robert
      Robert  •  8 mths ago
      Does Jimmy Carter even know what day of the week it is anymore? He's even more senile than Ron Paul (2012).
    • finlander
      finlander  •  8 mths ago
      Screw the Palestinians. They are a bunch of cry babies. Israel didn't chase them out, they left when the other Arab nations told them to leave so they could annihilate the Jews coming to Israel. Surprise, Israel won and the Arabs have been #$%$ ever since.Very few of the modern Arab states even existed until they were created by the allies/British after WWI . So all the allies did for the Jews is give them a state like they gave the other Arab countries they created from the Ottoman Empire.
    • finlander
      finlander  •  8 mths ago
      The man is and always has been a idiot!
    • Gale
      Gale  •  8 mths ago
      WRONG AGAIN. Jimmy Carter hasn't gotten any smarter since he's been out of office.
    • Ms.
      Ms.  •  8 mths ago
      Israel really has not more friends on the block, ...well, except the US...but that's not a true friend, that's more like a paid employee.
      Really....Israel's treatment of the Palestians , acquaits to Aparteid. So, that's why nobody comes to their voting party at the UN, except those that are paid-for by AIPAC...that being solely, the USA.
      When can we..."we" as in Americans' ..have our country back from this predator country that is sucking us dry? Can we be ruled by and for Americans, please. Small request....
    • Ms.
      Ms.  •  8 mths ago
      ..and yes, as the other poster below has indicated...I am aware that the Israeli lobby pays people to post public comments on Yahoo..under seemingly-American names like....Joe, Bob, Billy...whatever. Israeli propaganda in the USA is a big lucrative industry.

      So, HELLO SHLOMO! Hello Ezra! Hello Bersheeva! Mazeltov Isaac!! You look maaaaaavelous!!!
    • murugu
      murugu  •  8 mths ago
      Dear Americans; Just thought you should know that these boards are filled with paid pro-israeli posters with fake photos and names like 'joe from texas". These 'merchants of venom' spew their hate 24/7 , all in the hopes that American tax payers will keep sending them billions and billions more every year . America First, pay for yourselves israel, we need our $$ here
      • The Rod
        The Rod 8 mths ago
        Well if there are people being paid to voice their solidarity to Israel, I'd like a check too. But they don't have to pay me to stand with "G_D'S" people. I DO SO PROUDLY AND FREELY!
    • murugu
      murugu  •  8 mths ago
      True partriots put America First. We give billions and billions every year to israel and get nothing but loss of security in return. Did you know our Congress has to sign an oath to israel?!! Get AIPAC out of our government. Pay for yourselves israel, we can't afford your stupidity and arrogance any longer, we need our money here!! American tax $$ for Americans
      • The Rod
        The Rod 8 mths ago
        True Patriots don't support antisemitism. True Patriots don't support leftist either!
    • Gifty
      Gifty  •  8 mths ago
      FREE PALESTINE!!!!
    • A Yahoo! User  •  8 mths ago
      No offense but Mr Carter you need to sit down and shut up. If you try and speak for the Palestinians they are doomed. Not one thing you have ever sponsored ever amounted to anything. Please, I want this deal to happen for the Children of Palestine, for their sake, stay away, far away.
    • EcoPlanet
      EcoPlanet  •  8 mths ago
      Jimmy Carter is actually right on this point. The spin machine coming out of Israel makes it appear as the true peacemaker and innocent victim in the region, but Israel has conducted a systematic policy of repression and discrimination against the Palestinian people.

      And then Israeli leaders throw up their hands in amazement why Palestinian youth would want to join a radical movement--after all, doesn't everyone like to live a squalid camp with no freedom of movement, no chance for work and no chance for a future?

      The Israeli government, especially under this right-wing regime, has done so much damage to its own reputation and standing that it should not surprise anyone for the UN to approve some kind of status for the Palestinian people.
      • TiredChargerFan
        TiredChargerFan 8 mths ago
        It's less what you don't know (and in this case, quite a bit) that is dangerous. It is more, "what you think you know that just isn't so."!
      • Gifty
        Gifty 8 mths ago
        Why should a human being have to dig a tunnel in order to be able to feed his children? FREE PALESTINE!
    • לעולם לא עוד
      לעולם לא עוד  •  8 mths ago
      Ms. - I love the paranoid schtick....keep it up. (paid Yahoo posters) Too funny.
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