He's never going to live either event down (The Attack of the Killer Rabbit, and this book).
Posted on 12/12/2006 11:08:58 AM PST by .cnI redruM
Jimmy Carter brings a Christian perspective to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. Unfortunately, it is the same Christian perspective as a drunken Mel Gibson, obsessed with heaping blame on the Jews.
Yes, there are two sides to every dispute, and heaven knows the Palestinian people have suffered throughout the past six decades, but Carter apes the Palestinian position and calls it evenhandedness. He is such a rabid partisan that his next logical step after the publication of his rant of a new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, can only be to follow the example of the late Israel-hater Edward Said and be photographed throwing rocks at Israeli security forces.
Carter’s inflammatory title accords with attempts to delegitimatize the existence of the Jewish state by equating Zionism with racism. Carter thinks he’s being charitable because what he is criticizing “is not racism but the desire of a minority of Israelis to confiscate and colonize choice sites in Palestine, and then to forcefully suppress any objections from the displaced citizens.” Oh, is that all?
The book marks Carter’s further disgraceful descent from ineffectual president and international do-gooder to apologist for the worst Arab tendencies. “It is imperative,” Carter writes, “that the general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups make it clear that they will end the suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism when international laws and the ultimate goals of the Roadmap for Peace are accepted by Israel.” In the meantime, presumably, the slaughter of Jews can continue.
Israel can’t be so blithe about the murder of its citizens, which is why it built the security fence. Carter calls it an “imprisonment wall,” but it has been effective in preventing Palestinian terrorists from blowing people to bits — the kind of attacks Carter characterizes as “(unfortunate) for the peace process.” Twice recently, Israel has vacated occupied land, in Southern Lebanon and Gaza, only to see attacks against it launched from those same territories. But Carter always finds a way to point a finger at Israel.
In doing so, Carter thinks he is providing an extraordinary public service. In an interview with Newsweek, Carter said he wants “to provoke discussion, which is very rarely heard in this country.” Carter must not have followed the news during Israel’s war with Lebanon this summer, when media outlets were replete with criticisms of the Jewish state. Carter-like calls for a rejuvenated peace process, meanwhile, are so common that they are a cliché.
Carter argues that more people would see the Middle East his way if it weren’t for the nefarious influence of the pro-Israel American-Israel Political Action Committee. He apparently believes that if only the Palestinian Authority had better lobbyists, then members of Congress would flock to the cause of this chaotic, corrupt, terrorist-supporting excuse for a governmental entity.
Incredibly, given his media presence, Carter thinks that he is being silenced by shadowy forces. He makes this bizarre claim: “My most troubling experience has been the rejection of my offers to speak, for free, about the book on university campuses with high Jewish enrollment.” Does Carter keep track of which schools have lots of Jews? And who does he think is keeping him from speaking at them?
Just as creepy is a passage in the book about Christians in Galilee who “complained to us that their holy sites and culture were not being respected by Israeli authorities — the same complaint heard by Jesus and his disciples almost 2,000 years earlier.” As New Yorker writer Jeffrey Goldberg notes, “There are, of course, no references to ‘Israeli authorities’ in the Christian Bible. Only a man who sees Israel as a lineal descendent of the Pharisees could write such a sentence.”
What the Palestinians desperately need is a decent government that is genuinely committed to pursuing peace with Israel. By excusing the current degraded state of the Palestinian leadership, Carter is helping only to extend the conflict with Israel and perpetuate Palestinian suffering, not to mention trash his own reputation
"The tax in this country are a dis - grace."
-Jimmy Carter, presidential candidate, 1976
Well, Mr. Carter did a great job on the tax code, didn't he?
Got to be the worse president since Buchanan, and still he gets all of this ink with the MSM.
Mr. Carter is one strange person.
s/b "the tax laws..."
Didn't know his reputation could go any lower than his already-established persona as a terrorist appeaser, an America-hating pessimist, a self-righteous egomaniac and a jealous, one-term rejected president.
It has been reported that Carter made the comment during the '80 campaign that if he got back into the White House (thank GOD he didn't), he was going to quote 'F--- the Jews' for (in his mind) giving him such a hard time.
I am looking forward to his explaining his anti-Semitic behavior when he stands before the King of king and Lord of lords Who will of course, be happy to remind Mr. Carter of the fact the He just so happens to be one of those JEWS, as in "King Of"...
Stephen Heyward in his recent book 'The Real Jimmy Carter' could not have been more right when he said that electing Carter president was as close as the American people have ever come to just picking a name out of the phone book and giving that person the job.
Carter is the political equivalent of a case of genital herpes, they keep right on coming back, and causing periodic misery and suffering for as long as the victim lives.
>>>>Carter is the political equivalent of a case of genital herpes
Now I know you meant that in the kindest way possible! :)
Carter is so crazy even some of his paid stooges are bailing on him. For a RAT to give up a cushy no-work job because his boss is too far left really says a lot about carter's insanity.
I think they missed what Carter meant here. (easy enough to do with this loon) - I see that as comparing Israel to the Roman occupiers and the Palistinians to the first century Jews. It's the only thing that makes sense. As I recall, Jesus' response to those type of compaints was, "Don't worry about it - get right with God."
Don't put the general Christian on the same level as Jimmah. Jimmah is so far off in left field that he's MIA.
He's never going to live either event down (The Attack of the Killer Rabbit, and this book).
Of course, you're being unfair to Buchanan. Some days I think LBJ was worse, but otherwise Carter has no peer. In addition, Carter is by far the worst ex-president. Why didn't he stick to pounding nails for Habitat for Humanity? There, he did no harm.
My most troubling experience has been the rejection of my offers to speak, for free, about the book on university campuses with high Jewish enrollment.” Does Carter keep track of which schools have lots of Jews? And who does he think is keeping him from speaking at them?I'd bet money that is a lie. Someone might start a petition campaign to get Jimmy to say what schools, and give the details.
LBJ
Carter
Clinton
*sigh*
What do these politicians all have in common...?
I try and try to figure out how people could rise to the top of American politics and be so ... . Sometimes it seems they must be brain damaged to have such perverse ways of thinking and acting. Or, one might say that thinking as a liberal emulates the symptoms of brain damage.
Carter is rabid because of The Killer Rabbit. That's OK, it's not his fault.
Carter has become the Billy bob, Jimmy Swaggert of the Dems. He is a disgrace as an American elder spokesman. His views were wrong as Prez and more wrong now as an Ex-Prez. That this man won a Nobel Peace Prize is proof that international socialist orgs. are a danger to freedom-loving people, democracies, and capitalist nations. He is just another lefty loon who deserves censure by anyone who loves America.
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