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Last update - 16:28 14/06/2009
Carter: Netanyahu faces clash with Obama over peace process
By Akiva Eldar, Barak Ravid and Mazal Mualem, Haaretz Correspondents
Tags: U.S., Jimmy Carter, Hamas 

A day before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was to deliver what has been described as a key policy speech at Bar-Ilan University, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter told Haaretz in an exclusive interview on Saturday that President Barack Obama will not change his position on the two-state solution and Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Carter added that Israel and the United States are on a collision course if Israel refuses to comply on these two issues. (Click here to read the full interview)

Carter said Obama had "committed to a worldwide audience" to bring about a complete stop to settlements, which he called "the key obstacle to any peace agreements."
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Carter also said he was against allowing the expansion of some settlements to accommodate natural growth, and that during his term settlements were viewed as "illegal and an obstacle to peace. Absolutely ... I never changed my opinion about that."

"Begin promised me - and Sadat - very clearly that there would be no more settlement building during the time of peace talks," Carter said. "It wasn't easy to get it, but Begin made that commitment. Shortly after we left Camp David, Begin maintained that his presumption was that peace talks would be over in three months.

"Obama promised as best as he can to have a comprehensive peace before the end of his term, 2012. One thing we have in common is that I started working on Mideast peace on my first day in office, even before. He has promised me and others during his campaign that he would do that. He has kept that promise. That's a dramatic difference between the Clinton and the Bush administrations and Obama's."

When asked what Carter would suggest Netanyahu say in his speech at Bar-Ilan University on Sunday evening, the former president replied: "To me, the most grievous circumstance is the maltreatment of the people in Gaza, who are literally starving and have no hope at this time.

"According to the UN 41,000 of their homes have been either severely damaged or destroyed. And for five months they haven't gotten a single sack of cement, or single sheet of plaster. They're being treated like savages. The alleviation of their plight to some means I think would be the most important the Israeli PM could do."


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      2.   Carter`s comments on Netanyahu and the PA 06:18  |  Roger 14/06/09
      3.   Carter needs to make amends for sleeping while the Iranian revolu 06:24  |  ks 14/06/09
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      5.   Carter, Israel and a collision course 06:46  |  DT 14/06/09
      6.   Obamas big fat nose in Israel`s Business 08:03  |  Sam 14/06/09
      7.   #5 DT. Free at last. 08:07  |  Bazmann 14/06/09
      8.   No Jewish leader has the right to abandon any part of the Land... 08:12  |  Mario Sala 14/06/09
      9.   #6 08:13  |  James 14/06/09
      10.   Similarities 08:49  |  Chris 14/06/09
      11.   Carter? 08:56  |  Mark Lincoln 14/06/09
      12.   israel 09:34  |  brian 14/06/09
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      14.   Carter totally onesided 10:30  |  Dr Eric 14/06/09
      15.   In the U.S. Carter is known as their worst president in history 10:32  |  Zev 14/06/09
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      18.   If Life In Gaza Is So Crappy... 11:23  |  Yosemite 14/06/09
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      23.   An useless man 12:27  |  Enrico 14/06/09
      24.   # 17 baruch 12:32  |  Axel 14/06/09
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      26.   # 15 Zev 12:54  |  maoriboy 14/06/09
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      34.   peter sm 13 14:03  |  potobac 14/06/09
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      36.   steve 22 14:08  |  potobac 14/06/09
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      38.   # 17 baruch 14:26  |  Axel 14/06/09
      39.   why only Israel? 14:30  |  steve berman 14/06/09
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      59.   Potobac #32: Allow me to answer you. 16:38  |  Steve 14/06/09
      60.   #48 Brad...yes, we are all sick of the "smug power" 16:39  |  Lynn 14/06/09
      61.   President Carter`s efforts are a bonus to us all.... 16:50  |  Smadar 14/06/09
      62.   To Brad the Canuck in T.O. 17:00  |  Joe Sittizen 14/06/09
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