Jimmy Carter’s proteges shoot children in cold blood

(updated with a new link, and a quote, and an important clarification)

In light of the Gaza murder, via drive-by shooting of a Fatah-linked intelligence officer,

In the attack, the gunmen pumped dozens of bullets into a car carrying the children of intelligence officer Baha Balousheh, a loyalist of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement. …

The children were aged six, seven, and eight. ***

I hope our uber-Christian former president is very proud of his unqualified support for “the Palestinians.”

I would remind Jimmy “Keep Turning That Other Cheek Until Your Head is Severed from Your Body” Carter that, as Nick Cohen memorably said, political serious consists of saying which Palestinians you support [emphasis mine]:

Please don’t tell me that it helps the Palestinians to give the far right the time of day, or pretend that Palestinian liberals, socialists, women, gays, freethinkers and Christians (let alone Israeli Jews) would prosper in a Palestine ruled by Hamas. It’s not radical, it’s barely political, to turn a blind eye and say you are for the Palestinian cause. Political seriousness lies in stating which Palestine you are for and which Palestinians you support. The Palestinian fight is at once an anti-colonial struggle and a clash between modernity and reaction. The confusion of our times comes from the failure to grasp that it is possible to have an anti-colonialism of the far right.

While we’re at it, don’t excuse Hamas and Islamic Jihad and all the rest by saying the foundation of Israel and the defeat of all the Arab attempts to destroy it made them that way. Anti-Semitism isn’t a local side effect of a dirty war over a patch of land smaller than Wales. It’s everywhere from Malaysia to Morocco,…

Read the whole thing.

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***Abbas condemned this in the strongest terms:

“This was an ugly and inhuman crime, carried out by a gang of miscreants,” Abbas said. “We strongly condemn it.”