Carter blasts US policy on Palestinians

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http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0620/breaking7.htm

Carter blasts US policy on Palestinians

Former President Jimmy Carter accused the US, Israel and the European Union of seeking to divide the Palestinian people by reopening aid to President Mahmoud Abbas' new government in the West Bank while denying the same to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

President Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who was addressing a human rights conference in Croke Park, also said the Bush administration's refusal to accept Hamas' 2006 election victory was "criminal."

Mr Carter said Hamas, besides winning a fair and democratic mandate that should have entitled it to lead the Palestinian government, had proven itself to be far more organized in its political and military showdowns with Mr Abbas' moderate Fatah movement.

Mr Carter said the consensus of the US, Israel and the EU to start funneling aid to Mr Abbas' new government in the West Bank but continue blocking Hamas in the Gaza Strip represented an "effort to divide Palestinians into two peoples."

"All efforts of the international community should be to reconcile the two, but there's no effort from the outside to bring the two together," he said.

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1. There should be more criticism from our leaders than soley Mr. Carter.

However it reveals the true moral conviction he has and the willingness to tell the truth when others are too busy making profits over the destruction in the Middle East.