(IsraelNN.com) Former US President Jimmy Carter has called Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s unilateral Convergence Plan “illegal” and a violation of the Camp David Accords he brokered between Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1978. Carter further characterized the plan to retain large Jewish communities under Israeli sovereignty as a “confiscation of land”.

The former American president wrote in USA Today on Tuesday, “It is inconceivable that any Palestinian, Arab leader, or any objective member of the international community would accept this illegal action as a permanent solution to the continuing altercation in the Middle East.”

Instead of unilateral moves, Carter called on Israel to negotiate with Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), regardless of the Palestinian Authority’s current Hamas legislature. He claimed such an agreement “would also remove one of the major causes of international terrorism and greatly ease tensions that could precipitate a regional or even global conflict.”
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