AP: Carter Blasts US Policy on Palestinians

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Excerpts from the article below. Thank you, Jimmy Carter, for speaking out.

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 52 minutes ago

DUBLIN, Ireland - Former President Jimmy Carter accused the U.S., Israel and the European Union on Tuesday of seeking to divide the Palestinian people by reopening aid to President Mahmoud Abbas' new government in the West Bank while denying the same to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who was addressing a human rights conference in Ireland, also said the Bush administration's refusal to accept Hamas' 2006 election victory was "criminal."

"All efforts of the international community should be to reconcile the two, but there's no effort from the outside to bring the two together," he said.

<>Carter said the U.S. and others supplied the Fatah-controlled security forces in Gaza with vastly superior weaponry in hopes they would "conquer Hamas in Gaza" — but Hamas routed Fatah in the fighting last week because of its "superior skills and discipline."

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