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Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578921 Jimmy Carter: Israel must recognize Hamas as a 'legitimate political actor' (A former President of the United States is marginalized by the establishment/Jewish controlled media while they give daily front page coverage to all Israeli/Zionist spokemen.) Jimmy Carter: Israel must recognize Hamas as a 'legitimate political actor' Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Former President Jimmy Carter says Israel engaged in the "deliberate obstruction" of regional peace that led inexorably to its war in Gaza, and that the only way to end the conflict is for Israel to recognize Hamas as a political — not just military — player. "Hamas cannot be wished away, nor will it cooperate in its own demise," Carter writes, along with Mary Robinson, in a Foreign Policy op-ed Tuesday. "Only by recognizing its legitimacy as a political actor — one that represents a substantial portion of the Palestinian people — can the West begin to provide the right incentives for Hamas to lay down its weapons." Also in the op-ed, Carter faults Israel for stonewalling multilateral attempts at peace and for dangerously isolating Palestinians in Gaza, saying the "necessary requirements for a human standard of living continue to be denied." And though he accuses both Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes through their "deliberate" attacks on civilians, he reserves his strongest criticisms for the IDF. "There is no humane or legal justification for the way the Israeli Defense Forces are conducting this war," he writes. More than 1,600 Palestinians have died in the war, the vast majority of them civilians.