More news from FOJ, Friends of Jimmy:
The military wing of Hamas today released an audio message from Corporal Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier it kidnapped after a cross-border raid a year ago, in which he claimed he was unwell and needed an “extended period” in hospital.
Hamas is Jimmy’s partner in poliitics:
Former US president Jimmy Carter has called the rejection by the West of Hamas’s election victory in 2006 a criminal act.
In a speech before Ireland’s eighth annual Forum on human rights Tuesday, the 83-year-old former President said the US and Israel, with European Union acquiescence, sought to subvert the outcome of the Palestinian elections by shunning Hamas and helping Abbas to keep the reins of political and military power. “That action was criminal,” said Carter during a news conference
Hamas kidnaps Israeli soldiers and Carter think the West should treat Hamas as legiitimate.
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