Carter s Arab Funding May Color Israel Stance

Former president Jimmy Carter, who has recently emerged as one of the Jewish state's most vocal critics for its current West Bank anti-terror policy, has been the recipient of tens of millions of dollars from Arab sources.

Recently, for example, Carter suggested that the U.S. government should threaten Israel with the possible loss of U.S. aid if it continues its military offensive in the West Bank.

He also said the U.S. should demand that U.S.-supplied weapons be used only for defensive purposes.

Mr. Carter's views are often aired by the American media as those of a neutral mediator -- the man who engineered the 1979 Camp David Accords that has given Israel and Egypt a cold peace in the decades since.

But far from being neutral, Carter has a track record as a long-time critic of Israel who has often displayed pro-Arab sympathies.

It was his Carter Center that joined with the National Democratic Institute to put the seal of legitimacy on the first elections ever held by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in January 1996. Voters, who turned out in droves, elected Yasser Arafat president, and he has been in power ever since.

In 1990 Carter ghostwrote a speech for Arafat, hoping to polish the Palestinian leader’s tarnished image as, at best, being soft on terrorism. Arafat won the Nobel Peace prize for the Oslo Accords.

In 1989 President Carter interceded with Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin on behalf of activist Terry Boullata, a field worker for the Palestinian Human Rights Information Center. Boullata had been imprisoned in November 1987 for allegedly belonging to a terrorist organization called the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Boullata was allowed out in 1989 to come to the United States for treatment of hepatitis.

But it’s the financing behind Georgia’s Carter Center and the Jimmy Carter Library that raises serious doubts that the former president is, in actuality, a wholly neutral intermediary in the troubled region.

NewsMax has reviewed annual reports that indicate millions of charitable dollars have flowed into the center from His Majesty Sultan Qaboss bin Said Al Said of Oman, Jordan, from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the Government of the United Arab Emirates.

Furthermore, hundreds of thousands of dollars have been donated to the center by the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development. H.R.H. Prince Moulay Hicham Ben Abdallah of Morocco has also contributed tens of thousands of dollars.

There are no corresponding contributions apparent from Israeli sources, however.

As the center’s literature describes, "The Carter Center and the Jimmy Carter Library were built in large measure thanks to the early leadership and financial support of the Carter Center founders.” Three of those generous founders:

On July 5 1991, banking regulators targeted Abedi’s Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), triggering a worldwide financial tidal wave. To date, accountants and lawyers have managed to recoup (discounting fees) $7 billion out of the $12 billion money pit that fueled the BCCI fraud.

Agha Hasan Abedi, a banker and self-styled mystic on first-name terms with Carter, created BCCI in 1972. Abedi had charmed seed money out of Arab sheikhs, organizing camel races and hunting trips. The Bank of America bought into BCCI as a way of buying access to the Middle East, holding a 30 percent stake at one point before dumping its holdings in the late-1970s.

Last month Saudi Arabia transferred $15.4 million in advance aid to the Palestinian Authority. The transfer was made to a controversial Arab League fund, a product of the recent Arab summit in Beirut. According to Arab spokesmen, the money was hurriedly contributed due to the dire plight of the Palestinian people as a result of "vicious Israeli aggression.”

King Fahd, Crown Prince Abdullah and Defense Minister Prince Sultan jointly donated $4.8 million to launch the fund pot, while Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz sent an estimated $800,000 to the families of "155 Palestinian martyrs” killed in the current Israeli offensive.

Hasib J. Sabbagh Sabbagh is the chairman of Consolidated Contractors Co. of Oman, Jordan. He is also the Senior Fellow for the Middle East of the Council on Foreign Relations. Founded in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations is a membership organization contributing ideas to U.S. foreign policy. The Council publishes Foreign Affairs, a leading journal on global issues.

Individual, foundation, and corporate donors, together with multilateral development assistance programs, support the Carter Center’s current annual operating budget of around $30 million. Among the center’s announced priorities: promoting democracy, global development, human rights and conflict resolution.

Carter said he has spent much time raising money, but he hopes that a campaign to raise a $150 million endowment will lighten the load. Phil Wise, the center’s executive director for operations, said an estimated $110 million has already been raised for the endowment.

Although Carter strongly condemned suicide bombings and criticized Arafat for not being more aggressive in ending the spate of violence against Israel, he roundly lambasted Ariel Sharon for actions and attitudes, past and present:

"His rejection of all peace agreements that included Israeli withdrawal from Arab lands, his invasion of Lebanon, his provocative visit to the Temple Mount, the destruction of villages and homes, the arrests of thousands of Palestinians and his open defiance of President George W. Bush’s demand that he comply with international law have all been orchestrated to accomplish his ultimate goals: to establish Israeli settlements as widely as possible throughout occupied territories and to deny Palestinians a cohesive political existence,” Carter said in a recent New York Times piece.

"It is time for the United States, as the sole recognized intermediary to consider more forceful actions for peace,” Carter added. "The rest of the world will welcome this leadership.”

Carter also said that U.S. aid of $10 million a day should give the U.S. some leverage over Israeli policy, noting that former president George H. Bush had threatened to cut off this assistance in 1992 to discourage the building of Israeli settlements between Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

Carter cited another factor that could accelerate Israel’s acceptance of Arab normalization with Israel in return for its withdrawal from territory captured in the 1967 Middle East war:

"One is the legal requirement that American weapons are to be used by Israel only for defensive purposes, a premise certainly being violated in the recent destruction in Jenin and other towns of the West Bank,” he said, noting this requirement was imposed by Richard Nixon to impede Israel’s military advance into Egypt during the 1973 Middle East war and ws used to deter Israeli attacks on Lebanon in 1979.

"I understand the extreme political sensitivity in America of using persuasion on the Israelis, but it is important to remember that none of the actions toward peace would involve an encroachment on the sovereign territory of Israel,” Carter acknowledged.

Mulitiple Choice

It is the other way around. Carter's (1)__________ positions encouraged Arab groups to fund his (2)__________.

1.
a. pro-terrorist
b. pro-Palestinian
i. none of the above
c. pro-Arafat
d. pro-Islamist
e. anti-American
f. anti-Israeli
g. naive
h. holier than thou
i. all of the above
j. none of the above

2.
a. think tank
b. cesspool
c. still
d. trips abroad to undermine Republican presidents
e. idiotic rantings in public
f. photo ops with leftwing dictators and thugs
g. holier than thou pronouncements on Republican policies
h. lack of criticism of any leftwing dictator or Islamic thug
i. all of the above
j. none of the above

erratum:

1.
a. pro-terrorist
b. pro-Palestinian
i. none of the above
c. pro-Arafat
d. pro-Islamist
e. anti-American
f. anti-Israeli
g. naive
h. holier than thou
i. all of the above
j. none of the above

Should be:

1.
a. pro-terrorist
b. pro-Palestinian
c. pro-Arafat
d. pro-Islamist
e. anti-American
f. anti-Israeli
g. naive
h. holier than thou
i. all of the above
j. none of the above

So, Herr Jimmy is an anti-semite german money grubber! Have not we always known about the Jew hating demoncrap party? Right now he (little adolph carter) is sucking up to comrade Castro, so do not act suprised.

They fund this idiot yet dont provide food for starving Muslims. Maybe Jimmy should build habitat for humanity in some desert somewhere where Muslims are running around in the sand and need shelter. Oh, I forgot Muslims dont help co-religionists, they just help themselves. Carter and Arabs make a great couple, a bunch of people who dont believe in the slogan Might makes Right.

I bet Clinton and Carter are both glad that politicians in the US don't find themselves dead for pulling this kind of garbage.

So Mr. Carter, what about all this Arab funding you are linked to?

Carter:"Aw shucks, it's only peanuts."

An article in today's Wash Times suggests that Jimmy, seriously, is a victim of Alzheimers and is being manipulated by those around him to use his position...has there been anything else in the media about Jimmy's Alzheimers?

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