Posted by
Michael A. Minton on Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:00:06 AM
Here goes that Jimmy Carter again. It’s bad enough that the guy won a Nobel Peace Prize after one of the most failed administrations in American history. And after some of the treasonous acts he has committed after he left office. After all, it is no secret that there is an unwritten rule that a former U.S. President does not speak ill of a sitting one, which Carter did to President Bush…repeatedly.
Now we hear from the State Department that the former president is planning a mid-April trip to Syria. A trip which, I might add, is of an unsanctioned nature. FOXNews.com is reporting that Carter will land in Israel, and then will make visits to Syria and Saudi Arabia. What a nut job this guy is.
Fox quotes a State Department spokesman as saying, “[T]he State Department has expressed our concerns and advised President Carter that past engagement with the Syrian regime has not produced positive results.” And according to the Arab newspaper al-Hayat, Carter also plans to meet with Khaled Meshal, the exiled leader of the Palestinian terror group Hamas.
Several calls by Fox News to the Carter Center seeking comment were apparently, and conveniently, not returned. Hmm…wonder why.
Since his failed presidency in the latter part of the 1970’s, Jimmy Carter has been very harsh on Israel, and has worked against a successful solution to the Israeli-Palestine conflict. He has even gone so far as to author a book entitled “Palestine: Peace not Apartheid.”
As Alan Dershowitz points out, “South African apartheid, against which I and so many other Jews fought, was the absolute control over a majority of blacks by a small minority of whites. It was the opposite of democracy.” He goes on to explain that the majority rules in Israel, that there is no South African-style apartheid in Israel.
Why, then, Dershowitz asks, would Carter attack Israel with accusations of apartheid? It is a question that he and many others, myself included, would like to have answered. If I am not mistaken, and I am not, Carter was president when a bunch of crazed, Iranian, muslim students overran a U.S. embassy and took dozens of Americans hostage until Ronald Reagan won the presidency and was sworn into office in 1980.
If anyone should be familiar with the hostile nature of Islamic extremists it is Jimmy Carter! Why on Earth would he want to go “represent America” on an unsanctioned trip to meet with leaders of terrorist organizations? It is simply beyond the pale and defies imagination.
In Dershowitz’s column, “The World According to Jimmy Carter,” posted Nov. 2, 2006, on the Huffington Post, Alan points out many discrepancies in Carter’s book. Here are but a few:
• Carter repeatedly claims that the Palestinians have long supported a two-state solution and the Israelis have always opposed it. Yet he makes no mention of the fact that in 1938 the Peel Commission proposed a two-state solution with Israel receiving a mere sliver of its ancient homeland and the Palestinians receiving the bulk of the land. The Jews accepted and the Palestinians rejected this proposal, because Arab leaders cared more about there being no Jewish state on Muslim holy land than about having a Palestinian state of their own.
• Carter repeatedly mentions Security Council Resolution 242, which called for return of captured territories in exchange for peace, recognition and secure boundaries, but he ignores the fact that Israel accepted and all the Arab nations and the Palestinians rejected this resolution. The Arabs met in Khartum and issued their three famous "no's": "No peace, no recognition, no negotiation" but you wouldn't know that from reading the history according to Carter.
• Carter blames Israel, and exonerates Arafat, for the Palestinian refusal to accept statehood on 95% of the West Bank and all of Gaza pursuant to the Clinton-Barak offers of Camp David and Taba in 2000-2001. He accepts the Palestinian revisionist history, rejects the eye-witness accounts of President Clinton and Dennis Ross and ignores Saudi Prince Bandar's accusation that Arafat's rejection of the proposal was "a crime" and that Arafat's account "was not truthful"--except, apparently, to Carter. The fact that Carter chooses to believe Yasir Arafat over Bill Clinton speaks volumes.
And these are only three of the falsehoods in Carter’s book that Dershowitz points out. There are many others. And yet they gave this guy a Nobel Peace Prize? I should think I would deserve one before Mr. Carter.
At any rate, Carter’s unending championing of the phrase “ignorance is bliss” goes on unchallenged. Hey, Mr. President, while you’re there, could you see what you can do about these outrageous gas prices? Thanks!
Michael A. Minton is the author of the upcoming book “Mr. Right Opinion-Unplugged and Unashamed.” The book will be available through authorHOUSE at: http://www.51756.authorworld.com/