Former President Neville Carter has announced that he has brokered an agreement for peace in our times with the terrorists of Hamas prepared to promise to stop attacking Israel (but only for 10 years) but refusing to recognize the right of Israel to exist.

Oh, by the way -- all Israel has to do is give Hamas EVERYTHING the Palestinians have been demanding.

The leader of Hamas said Monday that his Palestinian militant group would offer Israel a 10-year "hudna," or truce, as implicit proof of recognition of Israel if it withdrew from all lands it seized in the 1967 Middle East War.

Khaled Mashaal told The Associated Press that he made the offer to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in talks on Saturday. "We have offered a truce if Israel withdraws to the 1967 borders, a truce of 10 years as a proof of recognition," Mashaal said.

In his comments Monday, Mashaal used the Arabic word "hudna," meaning truce, which is more concrete than "tahdiya" — a period of calm — which Hamas often uses to describe a simple cease-fire.

Two points.

1) If Israel is only going to get temporary peace in return for the permanent renunciation of all territory won in wars against Arab aggression, what will it have left to negotiate with in a decade?

2) Given that Hamas has never bothered to abide by a cease fire agreement in the past, why should anyone expect them to d so now?

Well, Neville Carter may be willing to be the butt-boy for Palestinian terrorists, given his past anti-Semitic rantings against Israel, but let us hope that Israel is willing to put its trust in its own strong defenses and the promises of God to the Land of Israel.