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FOUR BULLETS DODGED

With all these good intentioners involved, we could have ended up at war with Mars:

Israel this week issued a formal rejection of a recent offer by former US President Jimmy Carter and former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to mediate a ceasefire between the Jewish state and the Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip.

It’s not just President Rabbit and Truly, Madly, Deeply Concerned Kofi who wanted in on this. Dizzy Desmond and The Pertayter Lady also put their hands up:

Carter and Annan sent their proposal to Israel several weeks ago, and noted that South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former Irish President Mary Robinson would also be part of the mediation team.

Israel probably rejected the proposal out of sympathy to the Gazans. They’re tough, but they’re not unfair.

Posted by Tim B. on 03/28/2008 at 01:32 PM

  1. On the other hand, they’re a fabulous barbershop quartet.

    Posted by Merlin on 2008 03 28 at 02:32 PM • permalink

  2. Just what Israel and Hamas need…the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party Mediation Team! Thankfully, sanity prevailed. Someone tell Jimmy to go build a house, plant peanuts (organic, of course), or something else not involving international affairs. And take his friends with him.

    Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 03 28 at 02:53 PM • permalink

  3. Jimmy Carter couldn’t broker a sexual encounter between Eliot Spitzer and a thousand-dollar-an-hour hooker whose motto is “anything goes”.

    Posted by paco on 2008 03 28 at 03:10 PM • permalink

  4. I would gladly support an offer by Jimmy Carter to broker a political settlement between Clinton and Obama. This could easily lead to the dissolution of the Democratic Party and a Gaderene-style exit for extreme leftists throughout the country.

    Posted by paco on 2008 03 28 at 03:14 PM • permalink

  5. This would only take 444 days then be solved in an hour by the next batch.

    Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2008 03 28 at 03:19 PM • permalink

  6. #4 -

    I second that motion!

    Posted by Achillea on 2008 03 28 at 03:48 PM • permalink

  7. Those 4 cretins couldn’t negotiate an orgy in a whore house if the fleet came in into port on pay day.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 03 28 at 03:54 PM • permalink

  8. This proposal is so laughable that one would suspect that wronwright may be involved…

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 28 at 04:36 PM • permalink

  9. Golly.

    Carter, Annan, Tutut & Robinson, all so very important.
    All so impotent.

    Sometimes Tutu’s thin veneer slips, or the medication is due, and he’s just, how to describe it, crazy creepy.

    Posted by kae on 2008 03 28 at 04:53 PM • permalink

  10. The Four Limp Dicks Of The Apocalypse! Er… damn you, Mary Robinson… The Four Wilted Cabbages Of The Sinai!

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 03 28 at 05:08 PM • permalink

  11. Hey wait a minute guys, not so fast with the criticism. This plan just might work…

    ...or not, as evidenced by those 3000 other ceasefires with the “Palestinians” that ended with one party (always the same party, oddly enough) violating it before the ink dried.

    Posted by pyreal on 2008 03 28 at 05:15 PM • permalink

  12. Can anyone imagine a ‘Truth and Reconciliation Process’ run by the Imam of Jerusalem or Ramullah?  Can anyone imagine a joint parliament with Israeli and Hamas/Fatah parties talking across the dispatch box?

    Posted by Barrie on 2008 03 28 at 05:48 PM • permalink

  13. #8 Spines: Have you noticed how you never see Wronwright and Jimmy Carter together…ever?

    Posted by paco on 2008 03 28 at 06:07 PM • permalink

  14. Hamas: Okay Jimmah, we’ll stop shooting just for you, and until we replenish our ammo.

    Jimmah: Did you hear that Zionist scum, they want peace.

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 03 28 at 07:49 PM • permalink

  15. #3 Brilliant, Paco, just brilliant. ROTFLMAO

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 03 28 at 07:50 PM • permalink

  16. I don’t think Carter could make an agreement between his foot and his sock.

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 03 28 at 07:51 PM • permalink

  17. Once we had Coffee, tea or Bonox?
    Now we have Kofi, Tu or Robinson.

    Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 28 at 08:17 PM • permalink

  18. Thank God Israel rejected this Coalition of Phantasmagoric Fairies.  We could have had nuclear war within the hour!

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2008 03 28 at 10:16 PM • permalink

  19. Gee, Olmert does have a spine after all.  A very small one, well hidden, but it’s there.

    Posted by Michael Lonie on 2008 03 28 at 11:24 PM • permalink

  20. Oh good grief…. Cue Loewenstein and fellow useful idiots insisting any minute now that Israel isn’t serious about peace…

    Then again, you have to wonder what Jimmy Carter is thinking: “They met with Yasser Arafat, why not me?”

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2008 03 28 at 11:41 PM • permalink

  21. Thank goodness they told Carter to get stuffed.

    After all, he thinks Israel is an apartheid state.

    Sucked in Carter. You got what you deserved.

    Posted by The Best Infidel on 2008 03 29 at 01:51 AM • permalink

  22. It’s quite arrogant to think that you can come in and negotiate on behalf of someone else’s nation, or to think that all parties are being so childish and unreasonable that all that is needed is the calm voice of an adult to sort everything out.
    This isn’t a playground squabble.

    Posted by daddy dave on 2008 03 29 at 06:41 AM • permalink

  23. #20: Then again, you have to wonder what Jimmy Carter is thinking

    What would he think with?

    Posted by paco on 2008 03 29 at 11:36 AM • permalink

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