Jimmy Carter intervistato da Akiva Eldar, su Haaretz. Continua a dire le cose che ha sempre detto – vox clamans – in questi ultimi anni. Alla domanda, se lui sostenga un cambiamento nell’atteggiamento dell’amministrazione statunitense verso Hamas, risponde:
“Yes. I think it’s absolutely important that Hamas be involved in any sort of peace process. In fact, I don’t know what the relative popularity is of Hamas – I haven’t seen any public opinion polls since the invasion and attack on Gaza, but I was the main observer in 2006, in January, when Hamas won a majority of the parliamentary seats. And as you know, almost all of those candidates who won, who lived in the West Bank, are now in Israeli prisons. So that means that the Hamas and Fatah unity government can’t be formed at all. It’s not an elected government there representing the Palestinian people; it’s just a temporary government, basically appointed just to avoid having Hamas members.”