Not So Peaceful

Jimmy Carter has it all wrong about the Palestinians. They're not innocents. They've voted for a rabidly anti-Semitic terrorist group whose core values are delineated in the Hamas Charter and calls for the destruction of Israel.

Hamas is a terrorist group on the US and other national watchlists. The US is prohibited from doing business with Hamas.

The Palestinians voted for Hamas knowing full well that their sugar daddies would likely cut them off. That didn't stop them. But that doesn't stop Carter from calling for people to provide aid to the Palestinians - which means giving aid to Hamas. Ed Morrissey sums up his review of Carter's op-ed thusly:

Overall, the essay boggles the imagination. On one hand, Carter acknowledges that the Palestinian people voted to put a known Islamist terrorist group in charge of its protostate in free and fair elections, and in the same breath says that we should not treat that decision as legitimate. If the Palestinians want peace so badly, why did they elect terrorists to office? Just as with the Israelis, we have no obligation to fund Islamist terrorists, no matter who votes for them or how legitimately they do so. If the Palestinians cannot make decisions any better than this, our continued rescuing of them from the consequences of their actions will not teach them any differently.

People like Carter and James Wolfensohn seem to believe that we can buy peace by paying for terrorism. That explains a lot about the Carter presidency and the rise of Islamofascism. Carter once again proves that his ex-presidency only marginally improves on his presidency, but only in the sense that he has less power to keep affairs as screwed up as possible.

In other words, stop treating the Palestinians as though they are children, and start treating them as adults in a world community - one that condones terrorism and must be treated accordingly. Enough with the excuses.

Meryl Yourish takes the Lefties, and Jimmy Carter, to task for their ongoing attempt at defending the indefensible and loathsome Hamas.

And there's word this morning that the Palestinian Parliment building in Ramallah was damaged by an electrical fire. Expect the usual theories to start swirling shortly - namely that Israel was behind the fire, or that Fatah or Hamas intentionally started the fire to rally people to their cause.

UPDATE:
The Palestinian uncivil war continues.

Rival gunmen from Hamas and Fatah fought with assault rifles and missiles Monday, killing three militants in the bloodiest internal fighting since Hamas came to power six weeks ago.

The fighting was the latest sign the two sides could be sliding toward large-scale clashes. Each group has been training its gunmen for possible confrontation, and Hamas recently outbid Fatah in buying a black market shipment of 100,000 bullets.

Tensions have been rising since the Islamic militant group Hamas ended Fatah's four-decade control of Palestinian politics with a victory in January parliamentary elections.

Earth to New York Times - when two rival groups are battling it out for domination of territory each claims as its own, it's a civil war. That's what you were saying when it was supposedly occurring in Iraq but you decline to utter that phrase in relation to the Palestinians where it has been actually going on for weeks now.