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Originally Posted by CrankyYankee
You may be right about that.
However, peace will never come to the region through bullets and bombs, only through dialogue.
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Agree CY
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Originally Posted by Teak
True, but the dialog must be between the combatants, and Peanut won't accomplish that little task. Hell, the only reason he was able to get a treaty between Eygpt and Israel was because Eygpt was tired of getting its ass stomped.
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Good point Teak, in bold, although "Peanut" as you refer to him is not trying to accomplish a treaty.
He is going to attempt to win the release of the Israel hostages. He is unafraid and no one will open a dialogue, there is so much hostility from both sides.
The odds are against Carter, but if he did secure a release that might open a door.... unlikely to happen , but there is no harm in dialogue. In addition, Syria is going to allow him to visit the soldiers which could bring comfort and reports to their parents. At least we know Carter will not sell them arms in exchange for hostages as Reagan did, after Carter held firm on the Iran hostage crisis.
Carter met on Sunday night with the parents of kidnapped IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Schalit. In a closed-door conversation over tea in the King David Hotel, where the ex-president is staying, Noam Schalit asked Carter to help advance a deal to free his son, who has been held by Hamas for 33 months, when Carter meets with Mashaal later this week in Syria. In an interview the parents spoke of the meeting with Carter.
“We spoke. We asked him to use his influence to help us,” Schalit told The Jerusalem Post after the meeting.
On Monday, Carter is slated to visit both Sderot and Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon.