Denying the Truth

Jimmy Carter claims in his book that Israel is the primary obstacle to peace in the Middle East. The problem is that groups like Hamas and the PLO, who are considered to be Israel's partners for peace, explicitly declare in their charters and publicly say that they will accept no Jewish state there and that they refuse to even negotiate--in other words, the "occupation" refers to all of Israel, since the whole land belongs to the Palestinians, in their terrorist rhetoric. I asked Jimmy Carter myself how he could support his claim in light of this contradiction, but he just will not recognize facts even if they scream in his face--he simply cited 'statistics' that most of Hamas is moderate and accepts Israel, though their leaders like Khaled Mashal have declared again and again that they will never do this. Just goes to show that even presidents are naive.