Just what about total annihilation of the Jews by Palestinian, Arab and
Muslim people does Jimmy Carter not understand? Carter's latest leap into
the foreign policy breach resulted in his declaration that the terrorist
organization Hamas had accepted Israel's "right to exist," if Israel
occupied a Palestinian state on Palestinian territories and retreated to
pre-1967 Arab-Israeli war borders, borders changed after Israel was attacked
by some of the very people who still want the nation's elimination. The
working strategy of Israel's enemies is: if at first you don't succeed in
killing enough Jews, then try, try again.
Hamas immediately denied Carter's claim it is willing to recognize Israel
and introduced the usual caveats about Jerusalem as the capital of a
Palestinian state, "right of return" for "Palestinian refugees" and so
forth. We've heard it all before. Israel's and our enemies tell us what we
want to hear while continuing their terrorist and murderous acts in order to
achieve their objectives.
Carter has a history of believing (and smooching) murderous thugs. He's
kissed and/or met with the late Soviet dictator Leonid Brezhnev (Carter
expressed surprise that Brezhnev had lied to him about invading Afghanistan
in 1979. Memo to Carter: dictators lie and so do totalitarian groups like
Hamas); the late Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat, Hamas' political leader,
Khalid Mashaal and North Korea's Kim Jong-Il, who he falsely claimed had
agreed to suspend his nuclear weapons program. In each of these meetings,
Carter has served the interests, not of peace, or of his own country, but
the interests of the dictatorial regimes whose prestige has been elevated by
the visit of an American ex-president.
The false premise on which all negotiations with Islamic terrorists have
been based is that the terrorists lack something that, if they got it, would
bring about instant peace, reconciliation and the study of war no more. This
is wishful thinking bordering on self-delusion. Despite multiple concessions
over many years, peace overtures, goodwill gestures and offering up of land
captured from the very people who have tried before and will try again to
destroy Israel, many on the political left in Israel, Europe and America
cling to the fiction that it is only Israel that is an impediment to
"peace."