ATLANTA, GA (JNS) – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has criticized Israel’s plans to apply sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria, more commonly known as the West Bank.
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“Israel’s planned annexation of up to 30 [percent] of the West Bank as early as today would violate international laws prohibiting the acquisition of territory by force and changing the status of occupied territories,” said Carter in a statement on Wednesday. “The planned move would violate the Oslo and Camp David Accords, and jeopardize Israel’s peace treaties with Jordan and Egypt.”
“For decades, Jewish settlements in the West Bank have expanded, jeopardizing any possible establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state alongside Israel,” he said. “Formal annexation will signal the end of the internationally agreed-upon two-state framework for peace, and with it the possibility for a just solution to the conflict.”
Carter, 95, concluded, “The envisioned annexation would amount to a massive, illegal expropriation of Palestinian territory. Annexation must be stopped, and the Israelis and Palestinians should return to meaningful negotiations based on U.N. resolutions and previous bilateral agreements.”
der alter knaker uhn ah nun laidbt noch?!?!
Gehinom patiently awaits him…..
The peanut farmer and his words of wisdom. Lets remind everyone that in 1980 he suffered the worse lost of any incumbent preisdent probaly on the history of the USA. You all wish Trump loses every state aside for 1.
The donkey has spoken. This weeks parsha. I guess we have Billams eizel in our dor.
Oh go break a hip you old man… I mean you old mr president.
He saved a lot of lives and got the world through several sticky situations without war.
Jimmy please go back to sleep !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and….he made peace in Israel. Before Carter if you are old enough to remember there was daily hijackings, suicide bombers etc. he saved 1000s jewish lives.
I remember him giving a speech in the oval office dressed in a Mr Rogers sweater.
He was no Mr Rogers, rather a mean spirited anti-semite who suckered Begin in giving up the Sinai and throwing 3000 Jews out of their homes in Yamit.
Begin and Sharon will live in infamy for throwing Jews out of their homes. Netanyahu is about to do the same. Don’t trust a word coming out of his mouth.
Say what you want about the true secular Zionists (LABOR MAPAM MAPAI) whom you all love to hate. They built Israel. They never threw Jews out of their homes. They were the first who allowed Yeshiva Boys to forgo service in order to learn Torah.
You want the Sinai? Have you ever been there? What would you want that place for? How many of your children would you have killed for it?
Let’s hope soon he’ll have a good time hanging out in gehenom with his old pal Arafat.
A little Derech Eretz for a former President of the United States. Derech Eretz is a good midah, you should work on it!
He has a nice smile. I like when people smile.
He was cured from a deadly brain tumor thanks to a therapy developed by an Israeli company.Talk about hakorus hatov. What. An ulter choteh.