Monday, January 23, 2006
Carter calls for more withdrawal
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Jimmy Carter urged Israel to uproot more West Bank settlements.
“You can’t have a Palestinian state living in peace and dignity if it is filled with Israeli settlements,” the former president, who is in the region to help monitor Wednesday’s Palestinian Authority parliamentary elections, said Monday in a speech at the Herzliya strategy conference.
Israel removed four West Bank settlements after its Gaza Strip withdrawal last year, and all major candidates in the March 28 general elections have said they would consider ceding further land to the Palestinians.
Carter, an architect of the 1979 Camp David peace accord between Israel and Egypt, voiced optimism about the chances of a similar rapprochement between Israel and the Palestinians.
“Over time, I have seen despair and frustration evolve into progress,” he said. But Carter urged Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to crack down on terrorist groups, a requirement of the “road map” peace plan. “I hope and believe that after this election there will be an extremely strong commitment by Abu Mazen and the entire Palestinian Authority,” he said, using Abbas’ nom de guerre, “to stamp out the last vestiges of terrorism.”
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