Posted on 01/23/2007 7:04:16 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
Did Jimmy Carter do it for the money? That’s the question making the rounds about Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, an anti-Israeli screed recently written by the ex-president whose Carter Center has accepted millions in Arab funding.
Even in Carter’s long history of post-presidential grandstanding, this book sets fresh standards of irresponsibility. Purporting to give a balanced view of the Palestinian–Israeli conflict, Carter effectively shrugs off such highly germane matters as Palestinian terrorism. The hypocrisies are boundless, and include adoring praise of the deeply oppressive, religiously intolerant Saudi regime side by side with condemnations of democratic Israel. In one section, typical of the book’s entire approach, Carter includes a “Historical Chronology,” from Biblical times to 2006, in which he dwells on events surrounding his 1978 Camp David Accords but omits the Holocaust. Kenneth W. Stein, the founder of the Carter Center’s Middle East program, resigned last month to protest the book, describing it in a letter to Fox News as “replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments.” As this article goes to press, more protest resignations, this time from the Carter Center’s board of councilors, appear to be in the works.
If there is a silver lining to any of this, it is that Carter’s book has drawn much-overdue attention to some of the funding that pours into the Carter Center, whose intriguing donor list includes anti-Israeli tycoons and Middle East states. Founded in 1982 and appended to Carter’s presidential library, the center has served for almost a quarter century as the main base and fund-raising magnet for Carter’s self-proclaimed mission to save the world.
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This is a story that needs to be told.
A sorry excuse for an American, which in my opinion, he is not. A presidential failure, a generic corrupt liberal and as anti-American and anti-semetic as they come.
A huge embarassment to the very fabric of America.
He is every one of those things, and more. I used to think that he was a decent, well-meaning man who was just incompetent and in over his head. I was wrong about the first part.
Carter -- the PRE Clinton.......
As an Australian, what really really bugs me is the impression most of the rest of the world has; that Carter represents America. People in Australia, and Europe (which is far more detrimental) assume Carter's twisted and evil mind are somehow representative of the US in general. Think about it. The average aussie for example, doesn't ask him/herself what side of politics he comes from...he's an American, and taking money (bribes) from the very people who shout their hatred of America at every opportunity, tarnishing everything (including the aussies) stand for.
Europe hates the US? I don't think so. I think what they hate is the duplicity, the treasonous behaviour of people like Carter. With him around, with the amount of influence he seems to have, why would any european (well, those that do support Israel,) trust the US?
Good one, Claudia Rosett. Once she starts, she won't let go until she's finished with him. Carter is a liability the world cannot afford now. Or ever.
The word needs to be spread, Jimmy Carter speaks only for himself and his terrorist supporters.
I love Claudia Rosett, one of the few good investigative journalists still working.
She exposed Oil for Food almost singlehandedly.
Not to minimize the organized evil which is at work here, but I'm beginning to think that Carter himself is in the early stages of Alzheimer's or some other form of dementia, and that that's why the organized evil forces have been able to manipulate him so completely. He's never been a brilliant thinker, and has always had a bad case of bleeding-heart liberalitis, but I seem to recall that he used to be the sort of person who seriously disapproved of mass murders of civilians going about their daily lives.
So the U.S. gives the palis taxpayer money. The palis turn around and give it to Jimmuh Carter. The palis use some to shoot rockets at Isreal and Jimmuh spends his cut to write books about how evil Isreal and the U.S. are. Is that about right?
"Carter -- the PRE Clinton......."
I don't think Clinton and Carter have anything in common other than their poltical beliefs. I'd vote for Clinton over Carter any day of the week. At least you can count on Clinton doing what is best for his political survival. Carter's as dumb as a fence post.
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