Ismail Haniyah can rot in Hell.
Good Riddance! Hamas leader Haniyah was assassinated in Tehran tonight. President Jimmy Carter is in hospice. I wonder if he heard the news. I wonder how he felt. Kamala Harris was authentic and sensational in Atlanta. Here’s the letter referencing my fight with Jimmy Carter about Ismail Haniyah.
On 12/12/06, the Caplis and Silverman Show on 630KHOW had a remote at Elway’s in Cherry Creek. We also had scheduled an interview with former President Jimmy Carter, who was selling his book, Palestine: Peace, not Apartheid. I came ready with research to confront him, especially on his claim that Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was a man of peace who could be trusted.
Jimmy Carter and I got into an argument on-air when he accused me of misrepresenting that Haniyah had declared that Jerusalem was his goal from the capital of Iran, Tehran. It turns out Carter Center board members heard this broadcast and other indications that Carter unreasonably favored Iran, Hamas, and Haniyah. The resignations caused an uproar and I’ve thought about Haniyah and Carter ever since.
In their resignation letter, fourteen board members cited my testy exchange with President Carter as follows: “You denied on Denver radio on December 12 that Palestinian Prime Minister Haniyah said he would never accept or negotiate with Israel. However the BBC monitoring service reported just the opposite. In fact Haniyah said: “We will never recognize the usurper Zionist government and will continue our jihadist movement until Bayt al-Maqdis (Jerusalem) and the Al-Aqsa Mosque are liberated. When presented with this fact you said, “No he didn’t say that, no he did not do that, I did not hear that.” These are not points of opinion, these are points of fact.