Today's Financial Times of London [22 April 2008] had nothing but praise for former American president Jimmy Carter's breaking the ice with Hamas Khaled Meshel. In fact, in an editorial, it lauds Mr. Carter's diplomacy to the heavens, saying that his breakthrough with Hamas has probably saved Israel from itself.
Maybe so. Mr. Carter deals with both hands on the table. He requests in writing promises made to him. He did this in 1993 with Kim Il Sung which may very well stayed president Clinton's finger on the nuclear button, and lead to face to face meetings with the US' arch enemy North Korea. By talking to Mr. Meshel, he extracted again in writing a promise to safeguard the 1967 borders of Israel. Suddenly the Olmert Bush dam of stalling has burst. Nothing can and will be the same again for the roadmap to peace between Israel and Palestine. In Israel and the US the powers that be dislike with great passion Mr. Carter, but he carries on his goal to heal the wounds of war. Ain't for nothing, he was honoured by a Nobel Prize for Peace! Mr. Carter has his feet planted firmly on the ground; he's a realist, which is something both Washington and Tel Aviv say they are. They aren't and certainly they know from nothing when it comes to political realism.
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