Middle East thoughts .... Iran, Netanyahu, Jimmy Carter Shocka !

Iran .... evil Iranian President Ahmadinejad "wins" or steals electin in Iran. Riots and all sorts of fuss ensues.


Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu works to blunt Obama's dangerous and stupid approach to Israeli / Palestinian issues. Palestinians, as usual, reject whatever is said and threaten even more violence.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371095741&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371096849&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Full text of speech here

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371096254&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371096340&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull



This is the real shocker: noted Israel critic and worst President ever James Earl "Jimmeh" Carter, visits West Bank settlement and actually endorses the idea (reality) that Jerusalem area settlement bloc will / should remain Israeli in a final settlement. This is really a welcome and shocking development !

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371093499&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

In a surprising move for a man famous for talking about "apartheid" in connection with the West Bank, former US president Jimmy Carter gave his endorsement Sunday to settlements in Gush Etzion, located just south of Jerusalem.

"This particular settlement area is not one I ever envision being abandoned or changed over into Palestinian territory," Carter said at the end of his afternoon visit to Neveh Daniel, in Gush Etzion.

After more than 30 years of working toward ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it was his first visit to a settlement.

Although he did not signify whether he meant his comment to include all 14 Gush Etzion settlements, he said that they were among the settlements over the 1967 Green Line "that I think will be here forever."

....An assistant to the former president said, however, that while to the best of his knowledge Carter had never made such a strong statement in support of a settlement, retention of some of the settlements in Gush Etzion was in line with his thinking.