Batfink's Beep -- 02-20-06

More nut stuff from Jimmy Carter

February 20, 2006

Jimmy Carter is once again going to bat for the Palestianian terrorist cause, writing in the Washington Post today that we should not "punish" the voters who recently voted overwhelmingly to be led by the arch-terrorist organization Hamas.

While it is well understood that Carter has personal selfish reasons for wanting the world to go on taking its pants off to the Palestinians, specifically the fact that so much of his perceived 'prestige' is wrapped up in his moronic and ill-fated negotiations with the finally and blessedly late Yasser Arafat, this is nevertheless yet another giant billboard declaring what a traitorous imbecile the Georgia Democrat is.

Not much more is needed to understand where Carter is going than the close to paragraph 4:

The spokesman for Hamas claimed, "We want a peaceful unity government." If this is a truthful statement, it needs to be given a chance.

Says it all, doesn't it? Well, not entirely -- what says it all, is what he doesn't say, namely, what ought to happen if it is NOT a truthful statement. It would appear that Carter saves all his skepticism for the matter of OUR government's good intentions.

Anyway, Carter spends a couple pages of type crying about the fact that that, owing to Hamas's strenuously oft-repeated statements that it will never recognize Israel's right to exist, the Western world seems likely to eschew further aid to that organization's new government. Here's the typically hystrionic Carter take on that:

During this time of fluidity in the formation of the new government, it is important that Israel and the United States play positive roles. Any tacit or formal collusion between the two powers to disrupt the process by punishing the Palestinian people could be counterproductive and have devastating consequences.

Unfortunately, these steps are already underway and are well known throughout the Palestinian territories and the world. Israel moved yesterday to withhold funds (about $50 million per month) that the Palestinians earn from customs and tax revenue. Perhaps a greater aggravation by the Israelis is their decision to hinder movement of elected Hamas Palestinian Legislative Council members through any of more than a hundred Israeli checkpoints around and throughout the Palestinian territories. This will present significant obstacles to a government's functioning effectively.

Oh, how awful -- Yes; we certainly wouldn't want to prevent a terrorist government, which proudly proclaims its intentions to wipe a neighboring nation off the map, from functioning effectively. Well, Carter wouldn't, anyway. For myself, and I am most glad that our government agrees, I think we should start helping them only when they declare that they are ready to join the civilized world, and no sooner.

The former President and Michael Moore fan expends many tears for the "oppressed" and "innocent" Palestinians in whose interest he wants us to pay Hamas all kinds of money to meet their payroll -- you know, the ones who decided that their best hope to get what they want accomplished was to elect the terrorist organization in the first place. But that's not the good part. Witness what he follows his declaration of sympathy for those innocents with:

...the likely results will be to alienate the already oppressed and innocent Palestinians, to incite violence, and to increase the domestic influence and international esteem of Hamas. It will certainly not be an inducement to Hamas or other militants to moderate their policies.

See? In the same sentence in which he calls them innocent, HE acknowleges that they're likely to turn violent if we don't pay them money. What a stand-up guy, that Carter. What does he call what they have been doing up until now?

Sorry, Jimmy. Elections have consequences, even for 'innocent' supporters of terrorist organizations like Hamas. If they want to elect terrorists, they can live with the loss of OUR esteem and that of the neighbor they vow destruction upon, and as an expression of it, our money. And if Israel won't grant safe transit across its territory to such as Hamas, that's their right, too: if you want good neighbors, be one yourself. Most people are smart enough to realize that shouting death to your neighbors isn't the way to get their good will. And there's no law that says we have to meet their government's payroll for them. If there was ever a reason to withhold aid, the formation of a Hamas government fits the bill nicely. If that increases their esteem for Hamas, let them extend that esteem in bankruptcy, and see what it buys them. Hatred never filled anyone's belly, and if they'd rather have their terrorist leaders than the good will and assistance of the rest of the world, in a territory whose only product is hatred and whose only export is violence, that's their choice.

We'll see how long they can live with it. And if they finally wise up, we'll still be here.

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