Carter: Stop favoring Fatah over Hamas

ASSOCIATED PRESS

The United States, Israel and the European Union must end their policy of favoring Fatah over Hamas, or they will doom the Palestinian people to deepening conflict between the rival movements, former US President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday.

Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was addressing a conference of Irish human rights officials, said the Bush administration's refusal to accept the 2006 election victory of Hamas was "criminal."

This is embarrassing... Hamas is a Palestinian Islamist terrorist organization whose #1 purpose is the destruction of Israel, and in typical Carter fashion, he defends them. I can't believe he used to be president of the United States.