Trent Lott on President Carter's Palestine Book

Sam Husseini questions Senator Trent Lott on Sunday, December 10 on his views of Jimmy Carter's analysis in "Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid." http://www.washingtonstakeout.com

Husseini: Senator Lott, how do you react to President Carter's recent statements that Israel is imposing an apartheid system on the Palestinians, and there's been a defacto silence, a complicity, by both parties in the Congress. How do you react to that statement?

Lott: I really have been concerned by a lot of what former President Carter had to say, and I don't think a lot of it has been helpful in any way. The situation with Israel and how they deal with the Palestinian issue and others is very very serious, very critical, and I think while we should try to be helpful, we should also be very careful in what we propose and what we say.

Transcript:
Sam Husseini: Senator, have you been to the West Bank, have you been to any Palestinian towns?

Trent Lott: Yeah, uh, I have not recently, but I have been there in the past, yes.

Husseini: In Israeli settlements, or on the other side of the line?

Lott: On the Israeli side of the line.

Husseini: So you haven't been to the Palestinian towns and villages.

Lott: No, no I have not been to the Palestinian side of the equation. Look, it is not a perfect situation, I don't deny that...

Husseini: Doesn't that prove Carter's point?

Lott: Now part of what you do in finding a solution is not start, you know, using names and casting dispersions on either side. You try to find how you solve the problem. You try to move to a positive solution without trying to characterize or condemn one side or the other. Look, there's no perfection in how that part of the world and the Middle East is being done. But we need to try to find a way to come to some solutions and I think good men and women of good will are going to have to do that.

Husseini: But how can you do that if you only go to one side of the line? You said you've only been to one side

Lott: Look, I haven't condemned the other side...

Husseini: No, no, but you haven't been there, you don't see their point of view. How do you know it's not apartheid if you haven't been on their side of the fence?

Lott: I've never been to North Korea either, do I have an opinion on that situation, yeah. I haven't been to Iran...

Husseini: So it might be apartheid for all you know.

Lott: I would not describe it that way.

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[therecordkeeper]

What terrorists? What terrorists were there in 1967 in the West Bank. The terrorist then was the state of Israel, which further expelled and massacred Palestinians in their lands. And how are the Israeli settlements there a security measure, THEY are a breeding ground for terrorists, Jewish radicals who think nothing of going into Palestinian villages and killing children, supported by the Israeli Army.

[newyorkin1980]

Israel is a terrorist state!

[TruthJockey]

You you trust what Trent Lott says??? Did he give any specific denials of ANYTHING Jimmy Carter said in the new book??? Has be ever even been to the Occupied Territories in Palestine??? Does he even know what the 4th Geneva Convention AND UN Security Council Resolution 242 said???

Or is he simply a paid mouthpiece trying to launch a verbal attack...even though he's obviously uninformed!?

((the media slant on this subject is breathtakingly one-sided & pathetic))

[ballsauce666]

wow!

Lott is paid to do anything? - We the people can't find a better representative?

Doesn't sound like he has much going on in the brains department.

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[hcwcars1]

fuck israel

[ImNeilPatrickHarris]

Husseini came out as a partisan and partial interviewee. that's not how u conduct a fair interview and his leading questions were totally backward. stick to waving protests and screaming mantras instead of questioning people who've actually graduated high school.

[chamilt6]

Well that says it ALL! The sad thing is that it all to often reflects the typical American view on the conflict. Ignorance is bliss and people don't want to know.

The good thing now is that people are educating themselves and at least BO has acknowledge the illegitimacy of the settlement and the intolerable conditions that the Palestinians are suffering under.

[Enslaved10]

We should support President Carter. This moron is only a former senator, and should be disregarded. A president outranks a senator any time. President Carter is right about Israel and those kites!

[j0hnwi11iams]

If only he applied the same logic to the way republican scumbags treat liberals.

[melberhane]

the interview is a fucking retard.

[alphautubeone]

+'SLAUGHTER-ING pALESTINIANS AT A RATIO OF 8:1 YEAR AFTER YEAR AND THEN CLAIMING YOU ARE THE VICTIM OF TERROR-ISM AND ANTISEMITISM IS SIMPLY LAUGHABLE BY ANY RATiONAL, LOGIc, RELIGiON OR CREeD. NO EXCUSe IS CREDiBLE FOR THESE LEVELS OF TERRORISM. NOT EVEN THE JeWISH HOLY TORAH ALLOWS KILLING BEYOND AN EYE FOR AN EYE!

BOY`COTT IS`RAELI APARTIED!...