Former President Jimmy Carter said this week that he plans to ask the Obama administration to take Hamas off the U.S. list of terrorist organizations. This prompts the question, what part of the word "terrorist" doesn't Mr. Carter understand?
President Clinton designated Hamas a foreign terrorist organization in 1995 during a suicide bombing campaign against Israel. Since then Hamas, formally known as the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, has routinely engaged in bombings, kidnappings, assassinations and other undeniably terroristic activities. After violently seizing control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, Hamas radically escalated attacks on cities in southern Israel with thousands of rockets and mortars. When Israel responded with force last January, Mr. Carter roundly denounced the move.
"I have to hold back tears when I see the deliberate destruction that has been wreaked against your people," Mr. Carter said from Gaza on Tuesday, "by bombs from F-16s made in my country." Mr. Carter may have been feeling guilty about deals his administration made to sell the aircraft to Israel and the $800 million in grants he supplied to construct air bases in Israel's southern Negev desert. But he had nothing to say about the destruction wrought by Hamas' Iranian-made rockets, even though in 2008 he described attacks on the Israeli city of Sderot "a despicable crime." Mr. Carter further noted the "grief and despair" he felt at the "destruction perpetrated against innocent people," but was silent on Hamas' use of civilians as human shields. Read more ...
President Clinton designated Hamas a foreign terrorist organization in 1995 during a suicide bombing campaign against Israel. Since then Hamas, formally known as the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, has routinely engaged in bombings, kidnappings, assassinations and other undeniably terroristic activities. After violently seizing control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, Hamas radically escalated attacks on cities in southern Israel with thousands of rockets and mortars. When Israel responded with force last January, Mr. Carter roundly denounced the move.
"I have to hold back tears when I see the deliberate destruction that has been wreaked against your people," Mr. Carter said from Gaza on Tuesday, "by bombs from F-16s made in my country." Mr. Carter may have been feeling guilty about deals his administration made to sell the aircraft to Israel and the $800 million in grants he supplied to construct air bases in Israel's southern Negev desert. But he had nothing to say about the destruction wrought by Hamas' Iranian-made rockets, even though in 2008 he described attacks on the Israeli city of Sderot "a despicable crime." Mr. Carter further noted the "grief and despair" he felt at the "destruction perpetrated against innocent people," but was silent on Hamas' use of civilians as human shields. Read more ...
Source: The Washington Times
H/T: J.R.
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