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>>>>>Oh yeah. Creating yet more government bureaucracy is a real great achievement. Figures that you would believe that.
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>>>>Carter is anti Israel not anti Jew. AFAIK
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>>>Calling someone anti-Semitic is an extremely strong accusation. Personally, it's hard for me to say one way or the other.
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>>>But Carter has taken some positions that are so anti-Israel (such as saying that Israel’s policies in the West Bank were worse than apartheid, and saying that Israel should recognize Hamas as legitimate group) that I can understand how some would make the argument.
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>>Most Jews don't live in Israel and there's as big a spectrum of Jewish opinion about the rights and wrongs of Israel and its policies as there is non Jewish opinion.
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>That's true, but advocating the recognition of a known terrorist organization (one that openly boasts the use of violence, even against innocent people) goes way beyond that.
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>I didn't say that I think Carter is anti-Semitic. But I do understand why some people say it.

recognising that Hamas does have a mandate with its own people is common sense IMO.