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By loel mckinnon

May 8, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

Little Jimmy evidently stayed too long in the peanut patch without his hat.

By Greg

May 8, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this

Jimmy Carter is 100% correct - he condemns Hamas for rocket attacks on Israel, but honestly speaks the truth about Israel’s repugnant actions - which are mostly ignored by the U.S. government, while the biased, censored American media refuses to publish anything that legimately criticizes Israel - even committing treason by perpetuating the cover-up of Israel’s intentional, pre-planned terrorist attack on the U.S.S. Liberty that slaughtered 34 American sailors and maimed/wounded 171 more! Of course this is nothing compared to the carnage inflicted upon the Palestinian and Lebanese people by Israel’s military - the IDF, who have murdered exponentially more innocent Palestinian civilians in order to perpetuate Israel’s illegal/immoral occupation and colonization of Palestinian’s land - than all the Palestinian “terrorists” combined! Jewish “settlers” should be labeled terrorists as well, they are seldom prosecuted for killing Palestinians - plus are the major reason for the conflict! Israel was offered peace and fully normalized relations with 22 Arab countries, simply for obeying the international law, 70 UN resolutions, and the Fourth Geneva Convention that their illicit military occupation flagrantly violates, and returning to their internationally mandated andrecognized 1967 borders - but they flatly refused, preferring conflict to peace! Israel has a right to exist at their pre-67 borders, not to enslave 3.5 million Palestinians by colonizing land they have no legal or moral right to!

By Greg

May 8, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this

Jimmy Carter is 100% correct - he condemns Hamas for rocket attacks on Israel, but honestly speaks the truth about Israel’s repugnant actions - which are mostly ignored by the U.S. government, while the biased, censored American media refuses to publish anything that legimately criticizes Israel - even committing treason by perpetuating the cover-up of Israel’s intentional, pre-planned terrorist attack on the U.S.S. Liberty that slaughtered 34 American sailors and maimed/wounded 171 more! Of course this is nothing compared to the carnage inflicted upon the Palestinian and Lebanese people by Israel’s military - the IDF, who have murdered exponentially more innocent Palestinian civilians in order to perpetuate Israel’s illegal/immoral occupation and colonization of Palestinian’s land - than all the Palestinian “terrorists” combined! Jewish “settlers” should be labeled terrorists as well, they are seldom prosecuted for killing Palestinians - plus are the major reason for the conflict! Israel was offered peace and fully normalized relations with 22 Arab countries, simply for obeying the international law, 70 UN resolutions, and the Fourth Geneva Convention that their illicit military occupation flagrantly violates, and returning to their internationally mandated andrecognized 1967 borders - but they flatly refused, preferring conflict to peace! Israel has a right to exist at their pre-67 borders, not to enslave 3.5 million Palestinians by colonizing land they have no legal or moral right to!

By Greg

May 8, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

Jimmy Carter is 100% correct - he condemns Hamas for rocket attacks on Israel, but honestly speaks the truth about Israel’s repugnant actions - which are mostly ignored by the U.S. government, while the biased, censored American media refuses to publish anything that legimately criticizes Israel - even committing treason by perpetuating the cover-up of Israel’s intentional, pre-planned terrorist attack on the U.S.S. Liberty that slaughtered 34 American sailors and maimed/wounded 171 more! Of course this is nothing compared to the carnage inflicted upon the Palestinian and Lebanese people by Israel’s military - the IDF, who have murdered exponentially more innocent Palestinian civilians in order to perpetuate Israel’s illegal/immoral occupation and colonization of Palestinian’s land - than all the Palestinian “terrorists” combined! Jewish “settlers” should be labeled terrorists as well, they are seldom prosecuted for killing Palestinians - plus are the major reason for the conflict! Israel was offered peace and fully normalized relations with 22 Arab countries, simply for obeying the international law, 70 UN resolutions, and the Fourth Geneva Convention that their illicit military occupation flagrantly violates, and returning to their internationally mandated andrecognized 1967 borders - but they flatly refused, preferring conflict to peace! Israel has a right to exist at their pre-67 borders, not to enslave 3.5 million Palestinians by colonizing land they have no legal or moral right to!

By Craig Smith

May 8, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

It is unfortunate that the US policy towards Palestinians is worse that the policy towards American Indians. It is a systematic way to dehumanize, starve and subjugate an entire group of people. Where are the cameras that will prove what Mr. carter is saying. Gaza is a terorist breeding ground. If this is not resolved soon, I am afraid they will retaliate in a way that will be catastrophic for all. especially the US and Israel. the entire world cant be wrong. America, please open your eyes to whats happening. Mr. Cartewr should be applauded.

By Jerry Robb

May 8, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

Former President Carter is at it again! While he was hugging Hamas leaders last week, against the advice of most folks, Hamas was lobbing rockets into Israel, a daily occurrence.

If Palestinians really desire peace, they might stop rocketing Israel and trying to “wipe them off the map.”

Mr. Carter did win the Nobel Peace Prize, but so did Yasser Arafat. He did arrange the Camp David Accords by promising Egypt billions of dollars each year, forever, if they just wouldn’t attack Israel. Now, isn’t that a little like giving your lunch money to the school bully so he won’t beat you up?

President Carter has been backing the wrong horse since 1979 when he abandoned Iran. We, and the world, have been paying a heavy price ever since.

By shaul lavan

May 8, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

It is sad to see that former President Carter has become one of the chief purveyors of a totally one-sided narrative of the Arab-Israeli conflict. His uncritical acceptance of Hamas claims and his distorted attacks on Israel have served mainly to legitimize extremists and erode his own credibility.

Let us take a step back on Gaza. Two years ago, Israel withdrew, expelling all Jews from the strip, but leaving infrastructure. The Palestinian response was to destroy much of that infrastructure, to elect Hamas, and launch thousands of rockets into Israel. The latter vary from Kassam rockets to sophisticated Iranian made Grad missiles, now hitting cities like Ashkelon, ten miles from the border.

Currently, many (typically five to ten) rockets a day are hitting southern Israel. While damage to schools and homes has been severe, Israeli casualties have been kept low through warning sirens, bomb shelters, and sheer luck. In contrast, Hamas delights at civilian casualties, whether Israeli or Palestinian � for both serve their propaganda purposes. Carter mentions the Palestinian family killed recently � yet aerial photos show that their death was caused not by Israeli missiles, but by a secondary explosion from explosives carried by target militants. US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan face similar dilemmas � there too, the casualty count does not determine culpability.

After Carter�s recent visit (during which he did not visit Gaza), Hamas�s leaders reiterated that Hamas would never accept Israel, no matter how small. Hamas did not offer a ceasefire, but a temporary truce, as its leaders made clear, for the purpose of rearming. As an Iranian backed proxy, its goal remains the fulfillment of Ahamdinejad�s threat to �wipe Israel off the map�. Hamas� charter is a virulent document that calls for the ethnic cleansing and murder of all Jews. This agenda is promoted in all of Hamas� media, which include television programs inciting young children to martyrdom.

If Gaza is a prison, then that is largely due to the Palestinian leadership. Egypt enforces a tighter blockade than does Israel, and will not or cannot provide the electricity, fuel and food that is sent through Israel. Israel continues to provide these, despite recent fatal shootings at the border crossings. Israel continues to take in medical patients from Gaza, even though some of the latter have used medical passes to commit suicide bombings. In an act of cynical manipulation, Hamas has refused to distribute over a million liters of fuel provided by Israel. Moreover, much of what Israel has provided is hoarded by Hamas, and issued to cronies, while Hamas engineers ongoing crises for propaganda purposes.

The Gaza debacle is a microcosm of 60 years of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It started with six Arab armies invading a tiny Jewish state in 1948. It has continued with every Israeli territorial concession leading to more attacks and more militancy. When Israel tries to prevent further attacks, it gets pilloried by pro-Palestinian propagandists like Carter. The �settlements�, which Carter exaggerates in both scope and number, are certainly not the biggest obstacle to peace.

Israel has repeatedly looked forward, for example, by uplifting all the Jewish refugees from Arab lands. In contrast, Arab regimes kept, and still keep, a similar number of Arab refugees stateless. This is especially cynical, as they started the wars. Many still see the Palestinian cause primarily as a tool against Israel, and not for its own sake. While the US and Israel suggest resettlement of refugees in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority continues to demand resettlement in pre-1967 Israel, which kills any peace deal.

Sadly, Carter has sullied his legacy through his uncritical embrace of Hamas� officials, and his adoption of its propaganda. It will serve to legitimize and encourage Hamas, and further reduce the chances of peace.

By Greg

May 8, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

Ooooops, didn’t mean to post it 3 times - didn’t look like my comments went through!!! :-)

By Copyleft

May 8, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this

If you think Carter has been “uncritical” of Hamas, you haven’t been paying attention. Carter has rightly condemned the violence and attacks on civilians on BOTH sides.

The reason this is so striking is because U.S. coverage and governmental statements have been so “uncritically accepting” of Israel’s actions for so long. The truth is, there’s plenty of blame to go around… and that’s a big part of why the fighting continues.

By Jim

May 8, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

The discussion brought on by former President Jimmy Carter is long overdue as no one of any national stature has had the guts to address it. Why so many cower before the jewish lobbies is beyond me. It’s the single most startling issue that befuddles me when analyzing the American political scene.

We are joined at the hip with this renegade nation and no one seems able to describe how we got to this point. We are told we have a “special relationship” with Israel while no one can properly define this status. Nancy Pelosi stated in a recent speech before AIPAC, that we have “an unbreakable bond with Israel” while no one remembers ever voting for this bond. Even our oldest allies do not enjoy such unconditional support on all issues, as is enjoyed by Israel. Former Israeli Prme Minister Ariel Sharon is suppose to have said “Don’t worry about the Americans, we control the Americans” This alone should infuriate our Congress people.

It’s as if we had adopted Israel and part of the adoption document mandated annual donations of billions of our tax money and unlimited support for everything that Israel wants, while she goes about confiscating Palestinian land for illegal settlements, as well as conducting spying operations on her benefactors, the simple-minded Americans. When are we going to say ENOUGH!

I invite everyone’s attention to the fact the jewish vote in our Congress has just increased by 13. Now there’s nothing wrong with more jewish voters in Congress except that they can be counted on to vote straight down the line for Israel’s interests which means continued support with money and arms ad infinitum. I strongly disagree with President Carter’s contention that any foreign lobby has a right to pressure our Congress and fail to see what that view is based on. AIPAC is not just an organization devoted to Israel’s interests; it is an active source of money for those running for office who support Israel, also it is equally active in opposing those who dare to question Israel’s motives. It has been responsible for terminating the political careers of a few of the more outspoken politicians who had the courage to speak out on Israel’s motives. In my mind this goes far beyond what a lobby should be doing and it should be outlawed, particularly, since AIPAC is a foreign lobby.

By ButtHead

May 8, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

Has any conquering nation EVER given land back to the people who they conquered? I am confused why we think that Israel should? And if Israel should, and has, how come Lebanon and Syria have not? This a fight that will never end, I say the world should turn our backs for 30 days and let the Israelis and Palestinians duke it out to the end. Who ever is left standing is who the world should support.

By CopyRight

May 8, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

Somebody needs to make sure that Jimmy takes his medication.

By cat_rescuer

May 8, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

If the Palestinians concentrating on developing and implementing an economic plan for themselves, rather than their perceived outside “common enemy” [Israel], we’d all be better off. Nation-building is tough work - ask many African nations after the French and British left - but it’s far more rewarding in the long run than the coward’s way of lobbing rockets onto other’s land and people.

By Scuba-Steve

May 8, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

Greg, Craig and Jim….you all sound like the same anti-Semitic person! You are defending a terrorist organization in Hamas. Israel defends their citizens and they are the aggressor…you left-wing morons are exactly why this country’s morals and priorities are going down the tubes.

By Ed

May 8, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

Politics determines what human suffering and torturing is moral? Acceptable? How divided we have become!

By Charles

May 8, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

Would someone PLEASE call the Democrap Party? One of their elderly members has TOTALLY lost his mind and they need to bring him back home!

By Jack

May 8, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

Jimmy WHO

By RealityKing

May 8, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

“the world must not stand idle while innocent people are treated cruelly. It is time for strong voices in Europe, the U.S., Israel and elsewhere to speak out and condemn this human rights tragedy among the Palestinian people”

Funny how Carter takes two completely different moralist approaches when discussing the Palestinian people as compared to the Iraqi people.., don’t you think???

By Doron

May 8, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this

The tragic history of the Middle East is unfortunately turned upside down by Carter. There are many conflicts in the area - the Arab-Israeli conflict is just one. Most of the conflicts are kept alive by the constant indoctrination in the government controlled television stations and educational systems. The Arab-Israeli conflict is a very convenient distraction for the failures and oppression of Arab regimes.

Historically, there would have been two states if the Arab world accepted the UN resolution in 1948. Instead the Arab world invaded the nascent Jewish state. The Arab world has repeatedly rejected a two state solution since. When invasions failed to demolish Israel, the Arab League turned to political means. Hamas and the more moderate Palestinian Authority stick to Yasser Arafat’s hardline positions that prevent peace.

The biggest block is not settlements but refugees. Israel absorbed almost a million refugees from Arab lands. Despite vast oil wealth and land resources, Arab lands still refuse to do the same for a similar number of Arab refugees.

Things can be different. Peace is possible when the Arab world truly wants it. But peace will not come by pressuring Israel into evermore withdrawals. These seem only to exacerbate extremism.

By Jen

May 8, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

It’s sad to see Carter in such a one-sided rant. The Arab world has plenty of blame on its side, for starting the wars and perpetuating them. Just look at Hamas’ charter, or the translations on MEMRI TV, to see what Hamas’ real agenda is.

By US taxpayer

May 8, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this

Since I do not have insight into Carter’s intentions, I cannot speculate on them. However, speaking to ones enemy during combat does not have a long success record in US history. During the Civil War, a faction of Democrats opposed Lincoln’s pursuit of victory, and called for immediate negotiations with the Confederacy. They claimed that the Civil War was being waged on behalf of slaves, and that it was not worth it. This faction was called Copperheads, because unlike rattlesnakes, copperheads do not provide a warning rattle before they strike. The most prominent of the Copperheads, Representative Clement Vallandingham, was banished behind Confederate lines by Preseident Lincoln. It was a saying during the war that the initials of Ulysses S Grant stood for Unconditional Surrender Grant. During WWII, feelers from the Nazis to negotiate peace were rebuffed firmly by the Allies. The only war in which the US negotiated with its foes during hostilities was the Vietnam War, and that did not go so well for us. Israel might feel remiss in following a strategy that didnt work so well for the US.

By michael

May 8, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

We are to blame for covering this moron’s babblings in the press. We should not give him the platfom to spew his ignorant and hateful remarks. Carter = irrelevant

By Joe

May 8, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

Carter has received massive amounts of Arab money from Arab organizations abroad. Even prior to his political career, his failing peanut business was saved by a loan from a Middle Eastern bank. Undoubtedly those connections have long influenced his views, which seem to grow more erratic with age.

Somehow he needs to be in the limelight, often with disastrous effects. He undercut President Clinton, and helped North Korea get nuclear weapons. He certified fair the election of Hugo Chavez in what other observes said is a fraudulent election. Now he goes to bat for Hamas. Is feeding his ego worth the consequences?

By Naked Emperor

May 8, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

I applaud you again, Mr. Carter.

Far too long the US been the Israeli’s guard dog…and we helped those fundamental religious kooks obtain nuclear power!

We treated Arafat like he was a joke while we embraced a bufoon like Bush.

The Israeli’s push the Palestinians into a corner and try to starve them, all the while crying woe is me. Let the religous nuts fend for themselves - and keep your hands outta my tax money!

By Paul

May 8, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

Would Carter talk to the Taliban or the Iranian regime? Go to the Hamas websites, and you see they are in bed with the Iranians (that explains the Iranian made missiles) and share the global agenda of both.

Simply ignoring everything the Arabs have done and are doing, while dumping everything at Israel’s door, is not convincing. Hamas are also untrustworthy - saying one thing, and doing the opposite.

What motivates Carter to hide this?

By Slotl

May 8, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this

Blame Yasar Arafat for the Palestinian problems. Billions of dollars in foreign aide was sent to these folks and Arafat’s widow is living large. He never spent the aide dollars on job creation or infrastructure for “his” people. No wonder Hamas got the people’s vote. Hamas has done no better in building jobs or infrastructure and the Palestinian people are suffering NOT FROM ISRAEL, but from their own leaders.

Terrorism and killing are NOT the answer to the Palestinian problem and neither is condemning Israel. Too many innocents are dying (on both sides of the border) because the leadership of the Palestinian people can’t get their act together. It is easier to use the aide money to purchase more weapons or line their own pockets.

By shaul

May 8, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

Many of the bloggers ignore the basic fact: that the Palestinians are responsible for their own plight. They elected Hamas, they chose to launch rockets, they chose to launch suicide bombs. Their entire history has been of fighting against something, rather than for something.

They could have a state in 1948, but rejected it. They could have had a state in the Wet Bank and Gaza and East Jerusalem, which were under Arab control until 1967, but rejected that too. Their ultimate goal is a negative one - of destroying Israel, even in pre-1976 form - rather than building a Palestinian state. Its this negativity that has led to their situation.

Of cousre, the broader Arab world has helped: by forbidding them citizenship, and confining them to cmaps, in places like Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, …

By Sees The Truth

May 8, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

You are SO right, Scuba-Steve! This type of hateful spewing is nothing more than anti-Semitism. Anyone who’s anti-Israel is pro-Middle Eastern terrorism by default. You people must WANT another 911. Read the Old & New Testaments if y’all have any doubt as to who the Holy Land belongs; the Christians AND Jews. The Palestinians are worse than animals & no form of torture is severe enough for them. Their refugee camps are breeding grounds for filth & violence. The world would be better off without (ugh) refugees anyway.

By william bilek

May 8, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

Greg, and those who think like him, are wrong - morally, legally, historically, and ethically. Historically, there was a country called Israel, in the exact area the re-born state now exists, populated by Jews, for centuries before Arabs or Muslims existed. In contrast, no state or independent entity called “Palestine” ever existed, nor does it exist now. Legally, the re-born Jewish state of Israel was created in a small part of its ancient homeland in 1947, according to international law as it existed then, and exists now. The conflict between Jews and Arabs pre-dated the establishment of the modern state of Israel, and has continued, instigated by the Arabs, and based upon their refusal, then and now, to countenance and accept an independent Jewish state in their midst. The Arabs are being asked to share a remnant of the area of the Ottoman province of Palestine, over 70% of which was given by Britain to the Hashemite Sheikh Abdullah, to form the modern country of Jordan. Their refusal to do this has brought them repeated disasters, beginning with the 1948 war which left Israel at armistice lines, (NOT internationally recognized, agreed borders,) which lasted until 1967, when, with the West Bank and Gaza UNOCCUPIED, and Jerusalem divided (with the eastern half ethnically cleansed of Jews for the first time in 2000 years) the Arabs tried again to exterminate the Jewish state. From 1948, to 1967, when the Arabs controlled the West Bank and Gaza, no State of Palestine was established. Those territories were in legal limbo. The Arabs gambled in 1967. They lost. Whether the unallocated, territories, now administered by Israel should be termed “occupied” with all that that term implies, continues to be argued by better legal minds than Greg, or Jimmy Carter. The best offer that the Arabs have purportedly made still requires Israel to accept the influx of millions of Palestinians, which would, of course, entail, the extinction of the democratic Jewish state. Back to square 1. It also makes no provision for controlling violently rejectionist groups, like Hamas, or Hezbollah, who would continue their genocidal activities, regardless. As far as Jimmy and Gaza are concerned, he has to address the fact that Israel left Gaza, unilaterally, to the Palestinians. The Palestinians had billions of dollars of donor cash, a strong infrastructure, and NO JEWS. Why did they not start building the state they say they want? Why rocket civilians in Sderot. It is the unprovoked attacks on Israeli civilians in Sderot that brought on Israeli defensive responses and painful sanctions. As long as the Palestinian population supports and takes active part in attacks against Israelis, they are not “protected persons” by international law. Here is a novel idea for the Palestinians - stop shooting. Stop trying to amass ever more powerful guns and rockets. Start building hospitals, schools, and farms. Try it, and see what happens. If you are still disappointed, you can always start shooting again.

By CopyRight

May 8, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

Nuke’m till they glow and shoot them in the dark, God, Allah will sort them out.

By Wild Bill Hiltner

May 8, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

Jimmy Carter, is the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. He threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home, and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage. He is chief among the Axis of Idiots on the American left.

By Jean Rogers

May 8, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

Scuba-Steve uses term anti-semitic. Actually Israel is the anti-Semite. All Arabs are Semites, while most Jews who invaded Palestine in the 40s were not. A brutal, illegal occupier against indigenous Semites continues. President Carter should be praised for courage, integrity and decency. He has been to the occupied areas, as I and many others, many times to observe rather than read the slanted opinions in the US favoring Israel no matter what crimes it commits. No other country is treated that way. Israel spies on us (Spy Jonathan Pollard is jailed for life in US Federal Prison for endangering Americans. Israel continues to receive billions of unaccounted for dollars from America despite its crimes. Hardly noticed today a US Jew Ben-Avi Kadish is arrested in New Jersey for nuclear espionage, another very serious spy crime. Arrested on four counts of allegations of conspiracy, including disclosing US national defense documents and acting as an agent of a foreign government - Israel. Quote by the Pentagon - “What it didn’t hand over to the Isreslis voluntarily, dual citizens with loyalty to another geometric design -the Hexagram - simply went ahead and stole.” There are connections with the Pollard case. “It was bigger than we thought, and they hid it well,” said former U.S.Attorney Joseph diGenova, who prosecuted the Pollard case.Very little pulicity on these crimes already committed and ongoing.
Meantime, there is almost daily coverage of a USF student, not about a crime committed - it’s because he is an Arab student. It’s a mistake to call Israel the only democracy in the M.E. and our only ally. It’s not democratic, runs an apartheid-like government targeting non-Jews and it surely is not a good friend. Why alienate all Arab countries, some the Bush family has visit their Texas ranch? And while he is destroying Iraq and continues sending billions to Israel, he had the chutzpah to grovel in the UAE and Saudi Arabia asking for oil production increases to help America! Insane!

By Ray Hanania

May 8, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this

I think Jimmy Carter is right when he says the Palestinians are being treatee cruelly. I also thinkt he Israelis have been unfair to President Carter who, more than almost anyone else, helped bring an end to the military conflict and brought Israel and Egypt and later Jordan to the negotiating table.

But, I do think Carter is naive when he believes that the world should negotiate with Hamas. Hamas is a terrorist organization. They are an Islamic, not secular group and their goal is to create an Islamic state in Palestine. Palestine is just one step in a larger agenda of exporting radical Islam to the rest of the World.

Far from supporting compromise or peace, Hamas is against compromise. It is incapable of making peace based on compromise. During the peace process from 1993 through the 2nd Intifada in 2000, Hamas did everything it could to stop the peace process, exploding suicide bombers intentionally seeking to kill Israeli civilians.

There is no “one side is better than the other side” in this equation. Both Israel and the Palestinians have done wrong and have engaged in violence and even terrorism.

The right answer is for Israel and the Palestinian secular government to rededicate themselves to the peace process based on two-states and compromise, and to shut out Hamas, the Israeli settler movement and any organization that rejects that kind of outright compromise and that refuses to reject violence as an option.

I still believe peace is possible despite the growing influence of the Islamicists, and the rightwing religious parties in Israel.

Thanks Ray Hanania www.hanania.com

By Bob Kunst

May 8, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this

Our Shalom International and Defendjerusalem.net group of 11 protested at the Carter Center in Atlanta on 5/4/08.

Our focus was that Arab monies dictate Carter’s anti-semitism, anti-Israel and anti-American politics. Remember that Carter’s 444 days of U.S. held hostage in Iran, who is close to a nuke to destroy Israel with only reflects one part of this loser’s politics to get in bed with the Islamic Nazis, such as Hamas, Hezbollah, etc. that are funded by Iran and Saudi Arabia,responsible for ‘9/11’, global terrorism and global oil blackmail that has led to starvation of 30,000 a day, Jimmy ‘Jihad’ doesn’t want to talk about. He also doesn’t want to talk about the Mufti of Jerusalem, who had the option given him by Hitler to allow the Jews of Europe into Palestine which already had 900,000 Jews. The Mufti refused and joined forces with Hitler, produced 20,000 “SS” to finish off the Jews of Palestine. Arafat called the Mufti his uncle and after 5 wars and 2 intifadas, from “Hitler to Hamas the Holocaust Continues”. Islamic Nazis killing Jews, Christians, Hindus, Bhuddists, Carter cares less about. He gets his monies from Saudi Arabia which gets $1billion in U.S. daily from oil, but Condi Rice, last week condemned the Saudis for only puttin g up $62millions for the Palestinians, showing how much they care about them except as a proxy to kill more Jews with. Carter gets money from the Saudi Royal Family and of course says nothing about the Saudis contributing to eliminate the refugee camps, but the coward won’t, anymore than his Hamas gang he embraces cowardly denies the Holocaust altogether let alone Arab participation in it, while lately Hamas t.v. now says that it was the “Zionists who killed Europe’s Jews, not the Nazis”. This is also from the head of the United Arab Emirates who also donates to the Carter Center. Meanwhile, while Carter was violating Title 18 of U.S. law in giving ‘material support to terrorists’, which means jail time for Jimmy down the road, hopefully, Jimmy embracing Hamas in Syria was at the same time that Hamas was killing 3 IDF and wounding 13 others and a 3rd attack I haven’t the info on casualties. You can’t make peace with someone who wants to kill you. We need to understand this for all Islamic Nazis. So we had 4 t.v. stations, the Atlanta Jewish Times, Atlanta Journal, Ga. Public Radio and made national news besides. This is only round one. Now Jimmy is pushing his book on his mom as a cover for why she is rolling in her grave with his support for the very evil that would not only destory Israel but also America. Finally, Carter is behind Obama and Hamas. Hamas is not interested in Carter’s peace with Israel but does support Obama. Rev. Wright supports Obama and Hamas as well as Louis Farrakhan of Nation of Islam. Got it?

Did Jimmy go over to Hamas to be Obama’s emissary and is this the ‘change’ Obama is preaching which is to get in bed with Hamas against Israel?

By Jean

May 8, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

President Carter is to be commended for his courage, decency and fairness. He has visited the squalid refugee camps Israel pushed Palestinians into (read Yitzhak Rabin’s memoirs where a quote “drive them out” is used). The bottom line is that Israel is an illegal and brutal occupier that has ignored many UN resolutions, ignored internatioan law giving war victims right to return. And it has collected billions from Germany while it has confiscated thousands of acres and homes of Palestinian Christians and muslims with impunity. Their attitude is that of a thief, blame the victim and that makes it right. Dehumanize them and it makes it even more right.

By Alan Segal

May 8, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this

Gaza’s “crisis” is wholly manufactured by Hamas who daily fires schrapnel filled rockets into populated areas of Israel. They even atacked the very fuel depot in Israel which supplies much needed gas creating part of this “hmanitarian crisis” Carter bemoans. Israel withdrew from Gaza partly to test the willingness of Arabs to create something other than a launching pad for terror. The Palestinians failed miserably.

Carter refers to “Palestine”. My question is where is this place? There is no such entity except in the minds of people like Carter who refuse to accept the legitimacy of a country, Israel, whose borders were formed as result of defensive wars waged agaisnt them by Arabs who refused to live side by side in peace.

Carter’s rhetoric and half truths aside, the Arabs could have had their state in 1948 but they chose to wallow in the cesspool of war, terrorism and rejection.

By Wake Up America!!!

May 8, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

Carter is correct. He is critical of both sides and until this country wakes up and realizes we are party to the atrocities every bit as much as Israel, we will pay a very heavy price. Israel is nothing without this country and the USA is their puppet. Wise up and know their are two sides to every coin. We better be on the side of “right”! Why do we think we can overrule an election - because we don’t like the outcome? We are either for democracy, or we have no moral authority on it!

By Paul

May 8, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this

Jean unfortunately distorts the history. The Palestinian refugee crisis was ultimately caused by the 1948 Arab invasion of Israel. Six Arab armies vowed to follow the Mufti of Jerusalem’s slogan to complete Hitler’s task. Miraculously they failed.

Many Palestinians were ordered to leave by radio broadcasts from Syria to make way for advancing Arab armies. Once Israel was destroyed they could return victorious. Yes, some were driven out - but the vast majority fled.

Its also specious to mention this, without mentioning the Jews that lost their homes in the Arab started war. Jews were driven from the Etzion Block and from East Jerusalem. Many Jewish civilians were massacred.

The Palestine refugee situation is the only one not solved for so long - because the Arab world doesn’t want it solved. Israel took in an equal number of Jewish refugees from Arab lands.

Compare this to India and Pakistan. There were TWELVE MILLION (!) refugees as a result of the 1948 India-Pakistan war. Yet no one suggests that either group “return”.

This twisted logic is applied only to Israel. Its all the more bizarre given that the Arab world started the wars, and that Israel took in all the Jewish refugees from Arab lands. But then the refugee issue is a tool of ongoing propaganda war.

By Jean

May 8, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

Hanania is wrong - it’s the bully or cowboy syndrome not to negotiate with perceived enemies or those you disagree with. We teach our children to negotiate, not bomb but our gov’t bombs and does not negotiate. Looks like a lot of our children are doing the same thing, girls beating up girls, school children committing mass murder, gangs, etc. And since when did Israel recognize Palestine? If it did, is that why it continues a brutal and illegal occupation, with Berlin-like walls? Is this why it tried to sink the USS Liberty? Is this why it has had spies here endangering lives of all Americans back to the 80s at least. Recall a former presidential contender saying, “It’s the economy, stupid” and it caught on. Well, it’s the illegal occupation, stupid. And illegal wars killing millions of people. There is no reason for it except greed, power and hegemony in the M.E.for oil, ignoring the rightful owners of the lands and assets. The only reason the US sends billions to Israel is for that hegemony, not democracy, not human rights, not WMD which were absent in Iraq, not women’s rights, not for anything but oil and greed. And the support seems to be slipping with another Israeli spy caught and arrested in New Jersey. Friends? Hardly.

By Paul

May 8, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this

Jean is wrong actually: Israel has repatedly negotiated with enemies, when conditions are right. Israel has repeatedly recognized a two-state solution, including an independent Palestinian state. The first time Israel did this was 1948. In 1948 and 1967, the Arab world uttered the infamous phrase: “no recognition, no negotiations, no peace”.

Unfortunately negotaiting with Hamas has done little except exacerbate its extremism. Indeed Carter achieved the same in hugging them as with the North Korean dictator.

And Jean, as for the Liberty - it was a tragic accident. There have been so many deliberate attacks by Arab extremists, so why don’t you mention those? Hezbollah killed hundreds of US and French troops in two terror attacks; Hmas has killed many US civilans in Israel; Hezbollah killed over 80 in a single bombing in 1994 in Buenos Aires (Argentine).

By RealityKing

May 8, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

Gunfire broke out in downtown Beirut Thursday after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said recent government actions amount to “a declaration of open war.

Whoops!!!! Evidently Jimmy can add the Lebanese people to that list of Hamas repressors too..

By chuck Allison

May 8, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

Jimmy Cahtah professes to be a Sunday School teacher. Ask him who were the Palestinians in the Old Testament and what was their claim to fame. Have you noticed that the more senile he becomes, the more advice he dispenses?

By Paul

May 8, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this

It’s curious that Carter has so strongly advocated for the Palestinians, but tried to minimize the tragedy in Sudan. Is it because it is an Arab government in Sudan?

When he visited Darfur, he said it is definitely not “genocide”, despite some 300 000 people in Darfur killed. (This is way way more than those killed in all the Arab-Israeli wars. Moreover, the total casualties on both sides in Israeli-Palestinian fighting since Oslo is a lot less than 10 000). Many international groups call Darfur genocide, but not Carter. On C-Span, he said he knew the Sudanese leader for a long time, as if he were a friend.

He has not written a single op-ed, on Darfur, except to try back the Arab League position. That position effectively blocks action against the Sudanese Arab regime.

Carter tried to block international action after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, fighting the elder President Bush by writing letters to international leaders. He ignored all of Saddam Hussein’s deeds, and the situation in Saudi Arabia.

Is there some financial or other motive behind his selective obsessions?

Strange, is it not?

By Sarah

May 8, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this

Thank You President Carter for speaking the truth even though it is politically unpopular. Whenever someone questions Israel’s policies, they are accused of being anti-Semitic. I admire that Carter is standing up for a huge number of HUMAN BEINGS who have been forced into refugee camps, had (and continue to have) their property stolen from them, and been stripped of their basic human rights. Our support of Israel’s policies towards the Palestinians has generated a huge amount of anger and hatred towards the U.S. in that part of the world. I’m glad that someone finally has the will and the conviction to speak out against full scale oppression, wherever it occurs.

By Naked Emperor

May 8, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this

Occupation is occupation, no matter what god you worship. I urge all you zionists and patriots alike to JOIN THE ARMY RIGHT NOW. Like the cowardly Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney…so full of tough talk with a load of their crap in their panties to back it up.

At least Mr. Carter had the courage to go to Palestine and talk to the other side, unlike fearless leader who continues stroking his pet goat.

By yandl

May 8, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this

If anyone is desperate for facts and the truth, I would encourage you to go to www.gather.com to find 6 essays by Alan Dershowitz titled ‘Ex-President For Sale’. There you will find ample evidence of why Jimma ‘talks his talk’. He has been bought and did not come cheap.

By Shaul

May 8, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this

Sarah, you are distorting: friends of Israel are far more prepared to take criticism than Arab countries. However when the criticism is out of proportion to the deed, and is part of a campign to deligitimize and destory Israel, it verges on anti-semitism. Have Jews burnt effigies of Danish leaders or Danish flags or threatened cartoonists over anti-Israel cartoons? No.

As for stripping human beings of dignity: it is the Arab world that is responsible. They started the wars. They kept, and still keep, Palestinians confined to camps, denying them citizenship, work, … in most Arab countries.

The ma’abarot that housed all the hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries were every bit as pitiful. Yet Israel turned them into development towns and uplifted them. The Arab world has resisted upliftement of Palestinians, as has Hamas, because it robs them of their most useful (and cynical) propaganda wepaon against Israel.

How much of the Gulf’s vast oil wealth would be needed - very little? Yet Secretary of State Rice had to beg them even to fulfil more than 1/5 of their previous promises.

By Darby Christopher

May 8, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

Jimmy Carter is neither pro-Palestinian nor pro-Israeli. He is a peacemaker, and peacemakers understand that, in order for progress to occur, all sides must be validated and integrated, as opposed to alienated. His efforts to speak on behalf of the Palestinians must not be taken as a snub to Israel. If the Israelis had no or little voice in the current conflict, then he would be speaking up for them.

By Big Al

May 8, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

Hey AJC Nice timing for Israel 60th birthday. Its sure says lot about you guys.

Big Al Duluth GA

By pat

May 8, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this

Why don’t you move to Gaza Mr. Carter and rid the U.S. of your stupidity!

By Ahmed

May 8, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

president Carter is a great man.he is very right.he said what most americans are afraid to say.his loyalty is to America not Israel.most american politicians have sold their body and soul to the Israeli lobby.America as a whole is held hostage by Israel and its agents in America

By Toby

May 8, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

If Jimmy Carter wants to help the Gazans, he should start by holding their leaders to account. He should ask: Why are the grandchildren of people who fled an Arab-initiated war still stateless and poor while the grandchildren of Arabs who didn’t flee and the grandchildren of Jews who were thrown out of their homes in Moslem countries living in Israel with full citizenship rights and the highest standard of living in the Middle East?

How is it that Hamas militia men are well-armed and well-fed while teachers and doctors aren’t paid and the average Gazan is short of food and fuel?

How does Hamas have the nerve to blame Israel for the deaths of civilians when Hamas is not only deliberately targeting Israeli civilians but also endangering Palestinians by firing at Israel from civilian areas and storing explosives in civilian areas? (An aside to Mr. Carter: the family mentioned in your column was not killed by Israeli missiles but by Hamas munitions that ignited during the Israeli RESPONSE to a Hamas attack.)

The great tragedy of the Palestinians is that the Arab world not only prevented them from establishing a state (the first they had ever had) in 1948, but that the Arab world has also used them as propaganda and cannon fodder in its fight to destroy the Jewish state.

Let’s get real —- every Israeli concession (pulling out of Sinai and Gaza, arming the PA police force in the Oslo years) has seen increased violence and heightened demands for more concessions. Israel is not going to return to the pre-1967 borders (which were constantly being attacked pre-1967) nor is she going to surrended Jerusalem (from which all Israelis were barred from 1948 to 1967).

Settlements can be dismantled. The Arab world has the tougher job. If it really wants peace, it needs to undo sixty years of anti-Jewish incitement. It needs to admit, on the world stage and in the Moslem media, that Israel has the right to exist, as a Jewish state, in her people’s ancestral homeland.

By Frances

May 8, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this

The U.S. stood up against ethnic cleansing in Germany, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Sudan. It is not in Israel. The U.S. seems to have a major double standard. Israel was created using ethnic cleansing. Amazing they would stand for that after what they had just been through. You can’t blame the Palestinians for being a little miffed.

By David A. Oakley

May 8, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this

Jimmy Carter and those who think like him just don’t get it. Let me paint it in black and white. Hamas has an open statement that they want the destruction of Isreal as their stated goal. It’s in their founding charter. To this day they attack Isreal from Gaza with rockets and look for ways to seek homicide bombers into Isreal. Isreal has closed the boarder. Guess what it’s Hamas that is hurting its own people and blaming Isreal. Perhaps if they would change their stance and stop attacking Isreal I might have a change of heart, but if you had a group of people, the government of those people, staying I want you dead and they constantly take pot shots at you. Would you not do everything you can to isolate them from you and your family?

By Shaul

May 8, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

Frances, You are wrong to term Israel’s founding as ethnic cleansing. The Arab world started the wars, vowing to kill all the Jews. And indeed, there were as many Jewish refugees from Arab lands as Arab refugees.

There have been many similar population exchanges - between Greece and Turkey, when Greece was founded; between India and Pakistan (reportedly 10 to 12 million) when Pakistan was founded.

Yet only the Palestinian refugee issue remains - because it is the main Arab propaganda Arab tool. All the Jews from Arab lands were absorbed and uplifted.

Will the Atlanta Journal Constitution ever tell the story of Jews from Arab lands?

By Steve Berman

May 8, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

Editor, In his latest column in the AJC President Jimmy Carter has once again demonstrated to all that his ideas concerning peace and blame in the Middle East are hopelessly out of touch with reality. As a sequel to his one sided attack on Israel in his book �Palestine; Peace not Apartheid� Carter once again places all the blame for Palestinian suffering at the feet of Israelis.

Carter has never let the facts get in the way of telling his story. In his column he conveniently fails to mention that Israel�s unilateral withdrawal from Sinai was greeted with the firing of over 5,200 missiles at Israeli civilian populations. He dismissively calls these missiles �rudimentary� but I would hazard a guess that the citizens of Plains, Georgia would hardly consider these missiles to be harmless if their town absorbed a daily barrage of them.

Carter makes mis statement of fact a large part of his narrative on everything he writes about concerning Israel and her neighbors leaving us all puzzled as to what he is really after and leaving all troubled as to who he really is.

Steve Berman Steve Berman is a local real estate developer and was one of the 15 members of the Carter Center Board of Councilors who resigned from the Center in January 2007 in protest of Carters positions on the Middle East.

By NeedsRepeating

May 8, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this