Carter in Gaza: doing what President Obama cannot
source: http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2086-NY-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2009m6d16-Carter-in-Gaza...
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Former President Jimmy Carter was in Lebanon monitoring their election. As a former world leader, he has become so intimately familiar with the Middle East, - where he's learned to take the temperature and tells it as he sees it, since at this point, he had nothing to lose. On Tuesday, he was in the Gaza Strip, where he met with Ismail Haniyeh and other Hamas leaders. Carter has arrived at the conclusion, as have some of the leaders of the EU, that any peace accord must include Hamas, who is still considered a 'terrorist' organization by Israel and the United States.
He is carrying a letter from the parents of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit who remains captive for nearly three years. During his visit to the strip he stopped at Ezbet Abed Rabbo, an area of Gaza that was severely damaged during the Israeli incursion which started in late December. Despite a shaky cease fire, Israel has maintained its blockade of the West Bank, and making essential humanitarian supplies as well as other essential goods and services scarce, which only serves to punish the Gazan population who depend on foreign aid.
He is carrying a letter from the parents of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit who remains captive for nearly three years. During his visit to the strip he stopped at Ezbet Abed Rabbo, an area of Gaza that was severely damaged during the Israeli incursion which started in late December. Despite a shaky cease fire, Israel has maintained its blockade of the West Bank, and making essential humanitarian supplies as well as other essential goods and services scarce, which only serves to punish the Gazan population who depend on foreign aid.
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