Quote of the Day

18Apr08

“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…I think politically speaking this has worked even to strengthen the popularity of Hamas and to the detriment of the popularity of Fatah.”

Former President Jimmy Carter, speaking yesterday.


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  1. 1 JamieSW on April 18, 2008 said:

    See also Norman Finkelstein’s Quote of the Week:

    “I gave them a vision. What do the Palestinians want from me now?” (George Bush, July 2002, quoted in Aaron David Miller, The Much Too Promised Land, p. 351)

  2. 2 JamieSW on April 18, 2008 said:

    Speaking of Bush’s “vision”…

    ‘The Housing and Construction Ministry on Friday issued bids for the leasing of plots on which 100 new residential units are scheduled to be constructed in the West Bank settlements of Ariel and Elkana.

    The Peace Now movement said in response that “the government is destroying the chance to reach a settlement with the Palestinians, and turning the Annapolis peace summit into an irrelevant joke.”‘


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