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In an act so brazen, so completely supercilious as to be nauseating, Jimmy Carter has sent an open letter to the Jewish community apologizing for anything he might have said or written in the past that may have upset them.
May have upset them?????? Are you kidding me? You don’t author the number one book on Osama bin Laden’s “Must Read Book List” and not say some things that are going to upset Jews.
Last September the cave-dwelling leader of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden himself, sent a communiqué to Americans and his followers around the world urging them to read Carter’s book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”. This was certainly not because bin Laden wants to be fair and balanced in his efforts to wipe Israel off the map. It’s because the 2006 Carter tome is chock full of pro-Palestinian propaganda and goes to great lengths to blame Israel for the continuing violence in the Middle East.
Carter writes in this hate filled book that Israel is like South Africa in that it treats the poor Palestinians, who are the rightful owners of the land Israel sits upon, like the South African whites treated the black natives. (PS Jimmy – since the end of apartheid in South Africa scores of white farmers have been slaughtered by marauding black gangs and their land stolen with the black self-rule government in complete abetment. The land has gone barren and the blacks are still completely dependent on foreign aid for their sustenance.) The very liberal New York Times review of the Carter book said “This is a strange little book about the Arab-Israeli conflict from a major public figure. It is premised on the notion that Americans too often get only one side of the story, one uncritically sympathetic to Israel, so someone with authority and knowledge needs to offer a fuller picture. Fine idea. The problem is that in this book Jimmy Carter does not do so. Instead, he simply offers a narrative that is largely unsympathetic to Israel. Israeli bad faith fills the pages. Hollow statements by Israel’s enemies are presented without comment. Broader regional developments go largely unexamined. In other words, whether or not Carter is right that most Americans have a distorted view of the conflict, his contribution is to offer a distortion of his own“.
Carter’s original literary foray into the Middle East conflict was the 1985 book “The Blood of Abraham – Insights Into the Middle East” in which he did praise some Jews. Unfortunately all of them were dead. His latest effort at Middle East propaganda is titled “We Can Have Peace in the Middle East: A Plan That Will Work.” In this fantasy-like approach to peace Carter describes the Palestinian terrorist killing machines Hamas and Hezbollah as peace-loving organizations and suggests that Iran and Syria be brought in to help forge a peace plan. The fact that both Iran and Syria have publicly avowed their intentions to completely obliterate Israel goes conveniently unmentioned. Throughout the book Carter refers to the Palestinians as the peace lovers and Israel as the radicals, referring to Israeli leader Menachem Begin as the “most notorious terrorist in the region.”
In his open apology to Jews Carter has the unmitigated gall to say “We must not permit criticisms for improvement to stigmatize Israel.” First he describes Israel as the real terrorists, call Hamas peace-loving and then he says it was simply criticism for improvement. Buddy, now that’s chutzpah.
So why now? Why after all these years of calling Jews everything from liars, to warmongers, to terrorists does Jimmy Carter take off his brown shirt and attempt to make nice nice? Could it be that his grandson Jason Carter has announced his intention to run for the Georgia state Senate seat being vacated by David Adelman, Barack Obama’s choice for US Ambassador to Singapore? And could it also be that that the district this Senate seat represents is in northeastern Atlanta, an area with a large and vocal Jewish population?
Jason Carter says his candidacy and his grandfather’s repentance are completely unrelated, but hails the apology as a “great step towards reconciliation.” I can’t say if Jason Carter has the same anti-Semitic views that his good old grandpappy Jimmy has. But when it comes to being an inveterate liar, the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
The real question is how could Carter think, after all this time, he would be forgiven by Jews, at least enough to get his grandson elected. I guess he figured if Barack Hussein Obama could garner the vast majority of Jewish votes after having sat at the feet of the Right Reverend and Downright anti-Semitic Jeremiah Wright for twenty plus years, anything is possible.
All I know is that if his grandson loses Carter’s next book will likely be “Jews: Resentful, Unforgiving and Just Can’t Take a Joke”.
