Carter Calls Gaza Blockade a Crime and Atrocity
April 18th, 2008How about: Made in America?
Via: Reuters:
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter called the blockade of Gaza a crime and an atrocity on Thursday and said U.S. attempts to undermine the Islamist movement Hamas had been counterproductive.
Speaking at the American University in Cairo after talks with Hamas leaders from Gaza, Carter said Palestinians in Gaza were being “starved to death”, receiving fewer calories a day than people in the poorest parts of Africa.
“It’s an atrocity what is being perpetrated as punishment on the people in Gaza. it’s a crime… I think it is an abomination that this continues to go on,” Carter said.
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Don’t worry, the brownshirts are on top of the situation:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/GOP_Rep._calls_to_revoke_Carters_0417.html
“Myrick also wants taxpayer funds to the Carter Center, which conducts humanitarian efforts worldwide, severed. “Why,” the lawmaker asks, “should we support his center when he will not support his government?””
Support your government = no dissent. Of course.
Jimmy Carter’s principled stand in speaking out against US/Israeli crimes of genocide is both admirable and heart-wrenchingly sad.
The fact he is so completely marginalised in US political/media circles shows how far gone the US is in becoming a neo-fascist state.
The sadness stems from the knowledge that his lone voice is not going to help the Palestinians in any material sense–though at least they know that not everyone has abandoned them.
Until the US federal tax system, and its attendant military-industrial-imperial complex, collapses, the Israelis are free to carry on with their genocidal project.
Jimmy Carter is an enigma to me. I think the first time I was able to vote I voted for him.
As President he had to manage the first oil embargo against this country. I remember waiting in long lines in Washington, D.C. when gasoline was rationed.
He told us to turn down our thermostats, he wore a freakin sweater on TV, and had solar panels installed on the White House.
The nation was enraged. No one liked energy shortages. Much as no one will get it when the greater energy shortages upon us now will be understood or forgiven. Some goat always must be sacrificed.
The puzzle is that this man of so many forward thinking ideas had Zbrenzny (sp) as his national security advisor. That Carter let this man bait Russia into going into Afghanistan is the real puzzle to me – and what I think will be the historical perspective and blow back from the Carter administration. We’ll look back and say wow, this guy knew what an energy shortage requires, and then we’ll look at his Afghanistan policy and scratch our heads and say WTF?
As far as Israel goes, our 51st state runs the U.S. govmint, if you ask me. It appears that our “free press” requires anyone who criticizes the Isreali’s, who it appears, have turned into their former Nazi oppressors, can go pound sand.