[Sosfbay-discuss] Jimmy Carter meets next week with Hamas—with Israelis???

[justvegan at mac.com]

Hello All,

"Only 28 percent were opposed ['to having direct talks with Hamas']."

Here's another 28 percent:

"Now in all fairness, historians should wait a while before passing  
judgment on a president’s who served recently, much less one still in  
office. But the current incumbent is a special case. After all, 81  
percent of Americans, according to a recent New York Times poll,  
believe he’s [Bush's] taken the country on the wrong track. That’s the  
highest number ever registered. The same poll also says 28 percent  
have a favorable view of his performance in office, which is also in  
Nixon-in-the-darkest-days-of-Watergate territory."

Link here: <http://harpers.org/archive/2008/04/hbc-90002804>

Interesting, eh?

For Peace, Go Vegan!

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www.ENDinjusticeNOW.com

"If the impeachment provision in the Constitution of the United States  
will not reach the offenses charged here, then perhaps that eighteenth  
century Constitution should be abandoned to a twentieth century paper  
shredder." -- Representative Barbara Jordan (July 25, 1974)

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On Apr 10, 2008, at 2:53 PM, Andrea Dorey wrote:
> Once again, former President Jimmy Carter is to be commended for  
> taking the initiative toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian  
> conflict. The announcement that he will meet next week in Damascus  
> with Khaled Meshal, the leader of Hamas, is consonant with a March  
> 1, 2008 poll by the leading Israeli newspaper - Haaretz - that found  
> 64 percent of Israelis favor direct talks with Hamas. Only 28  
> percent were opposed. (Hamas was created years ago with the critical  
> support of both the Israeli and U.S. governments as a counterweight  
> to the Palestine Liberation Organization.)
>
> An impressive number of retired top Israeli and American government  
> officials have called for - or believe there should be -  
> negotiations with Hamas, the organization which controls Gaza,  
> presently under an Israeli siege.
>
> Both United Nations and European Union officials have demanded that  
> the Israeli government lift the siege or blockade which is severely  
> depriving Palestinian civilian families of needed medicine, food,  
> electricity, clean water, fuel and other critical life-saving  
> supplies and materials. Gaza has become the world's largest prison  
> with 1.5 million inmates - many sick or dying - making that tiny  
> enclave a major humanitarian crisis that invites moral and political  
> denunciation by world leaders.
>
> In addition, during the hostilities over the past year, Palestinians  
> have suffered at least 300 civilian casualties to every Israeli  
> civilian casualty.
>



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