Carter in Lebanon

Oh, Jimmy Carter with your Christian ways. I'm really not sure what anyone gained from this.

Oh my god, you always comment on your own shit like you're patting yourself on the back. I hope there is a second revolution and Carter gets trapped in it. FREE IRAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I bet they swapped some interesting stories . Ones for the underground history books .

Carter: Mideast Peace Not Possible Without Hamas
By ALBERT AJI
His comments came shortly before he met with the militant group's Syrian-based leader, Khaled Mashaal. Carter met with Mashaal twice under the Bush administration, angering some in the U.S. government who said he was legitimizing a group the U.S. considers a terrorist organization.
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One commentator compared this to the American election in 2000 when candidate Gore bested Bush by 500,000 votes but Bush was declared the winner. Similarly, progressive Arab Nationalist candidates in Lebanon’s June 7, 2009 election gathered a total of 140,258 votes out of the total of 1,149,500 cast. This is equal to 9.38 percent of the votes and had the system been a proportional system this would account for 12 seats in parliament rather than zero seats which is what these candidate received.

The Carter Center, Hezbollah, and others who have studied the Lebanese system realize that changing the election law into a proportional one is the only way forward in Lebanon and should be the priority for the coming four years.

For his part, Sayeed Fadlallah commended former President for his humanitarian work and present him with a copy of his recent book , Islam, The Religion of Dialogue (he has written 147, aides told me, most in Arabic).

He told Carter he had read his recent books Palestine: Peace not Apartheid and There Can be Peace in the Middle East and expressed his appreciation for Carter as an objective researcher not controlled by Israeli political forces. He noted that the question of Palestine was not about religion but was a political struggle and that Arab countries have no problems with Jews but rather a problem of aggressive Zionism.

He said Lebanon and the region awaits Obama’s actions to match his ”sweet words”, but that he realized that there are powerful forces operating in America that will make Obama’s work for change in Palestine and the region very difficult.

Other comments between the duo were agreed to be off the record and not made public.