Sunday, July 06, 2008 | 10:22 a.m.

The Ritual Flaying of Jimmy Carter

by Joe Conason

Nobody with a functioning memory should be too quick to condemn Jimmy Carter for daring to speak with the leadership of Hamas, as nearly everyone along the American political spectrum suddenly has felt obliged to do. From Condoleezza Rice and John McCain to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, along with every Congressional backbencher in both parties, expressions of disapproval have rained down upon the former president, who is old enough and tough enough to pursue his own beliefs to their logi ...

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Posted by: Phil Berwick
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Mon May 5, 2008 9:20 PM

THE FLAYING IS OF ISRAEL, PEACE BY....PIECE. I think the writer has not a knowledge of the history of the atrocities of Hamas and the boasting of them that followed. If a single bus or coffee house of Americans were blown to pieces neither this columnist nor Rice, nor Carter would dare suggest we engage the likes of these murderers at large with anything other than a gun. For years they waged cowardly murderous ruinous rampages on Jewish soils. Would we seek out Osama Bin Laden to engage in peace talks? We expect Israel to do this with Hamas, who have murdered their innocents. I actually expect this writer and others some day to suggest the same honor and respect to Osama Bin Laden. Never mind the so called Flaying of Carter. The flaying rather has been the carving up of the lives and land of a people who were given once a much bigger portion than the little bit of 200 miles by 75 miles of Real Estate that the world wants them to continue to relinquish, piece by flayed piece. W. Phillips Berwick

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