Jimmy Carter called out on anti-semitism!
POSTED BY: CrevanReaver
UPDATED: Sunday, April 8, 2007 10:36
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The worst U.S. president of the 20th Century, Jimmy Carter, has come out with a new book. It's title is 'Palestine Peace Not Apartheid'. It's a hate-filled screed against the right of the Jewish people to defend themselves against terrorism.
Recently, while being interviewed on C-SPAN, a caller called him out on his blatant anti-semitism.
F...k you, Jimmy Carter!
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I haven't read the book, so I can't comment on it. However, Carter's been nothing of a disappointment to me for years now. At one time, I'd honestly believed he was a decent man, and when he started saying these crazy things, for a while I would give him the benefit of the doubt. A few years ago, however, I came to the distinct realization that he's quite bonkers.
I probably shouldn't admit this publically (particularly as a life-long conservative Republican), but I actually supported his bid for the White House in 1976 over President Ford. It didn't take long for me to realize what a big mistake that had been. 
Although, everyone who knows that I supported Carter is either dead or has long forgotten by now -- except for one friend, who (fortunately) I don't see that much anymore. I'd hate for him to bring it up. (Although, if he did, I could always bring up how he supported McGovern in '72. Fortunately, he wasn't yet quite old enough to vote.)
I'd really like to know what happened to Carter. I'm left wondering if he was always this crazy, and I just wasn't perceptive enough to realize it, or if he'd actually (at one time) had a decent mind -- which has been ravaged by time and his party's bizarre agenda?
He's actually making his late brother, Billy, look like the sane one in the family.
What a shame. 
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Crevanreaver,
please post some examples of his "hate filled screed" against the israeli right to defend themselves.
As it stands, your post sounds like so much rhetoric.
I heard an interview with him on the book and nothing sounded the way you paint it, but by all means, educate us.
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The caller certainly had some choice names to call the ex-President. That's a great way to get your point across, call in to a talk show and call the guest names.
I'm not going to apologise for admiring Jimmy Carter. He has spent his post-presidential years trying to advance the cause of world peace, among other things. The Carter Center works to advance Human Rights, works towards erradicating diseases in the Third World, and offers to mediate conflicts both between warring factions inside countries and between nations in conflict. Not to mention the ex-pres personally showing up to help build homes with Habitat For Humanity.
Worst president of the 20th century? Hardly! He was too ineffectual to nab that title. Too busy trying to be a good man to be an effective president, in my opinion. Though winning that Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 sure should have showed him he had been wasting his time with that goody-goody stuff, right?
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So if a man disagrees with the policies of a government he therefore hates the ethnicity of the members of that government? The very idea is racist.
HKCavalier
Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
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Originally posted by DarkJester:
Worst president of the 20th century?
Aw hell....
He is just sore that GW has that title locked up already for the 21 st century.
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Good luck with that, Righteous9.
Even though CrevanReaver has been around the RWED for quite a while, I have yet to get a feel for his "voice". What he is good for, IMO, is to serve as a gauge for the outrage du jour going around the right blogosphere. But to expect actual discourse? That would be out of the ordinary indeed.
* edited to add: Well, color me pleasantly surprised. 
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Quote:I have always admired Jimmy Carter precisely for understanding the complex situation in the Arab-Israeli conflict and supporting the right of Palestinians to self-government. What Israel does practice now IS apartheid. Maybe Israel thinks she has a good excuse for it, but it is still wrong. I am glad someone of Carter's public stature is speaking out against it.
Originally posted by CrevanReaver:
It's title is 'Palestine Peace Not Apartheid'. It's a hate-filled screed against the right of the Jewish people to defend themselves against terrorism.
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People don't start wars, governments do.
--Ronald Reagan
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In Chapter 17, Carter writes, "Some Israelis believe they have the right to confiscate and colonize Palestinian land and try to justify the sustained subjugation and persecution of increasingly hopeless and aggravated Palestinians; and some Palestinians react by honoring suicide bombers as martyrs to be rewarded in heaven and consider the killing of Israelis as victories. In turn, Israel responds with retribution and oppression."
In laymen's terms, what Carter is saying is that he believes that when Jews in the Middle East defend themselves, they are oppressors. When Middle Eastern Nazis (aka "aggravated Palestinians") kill Jews, it's in response to oppression from Jews.
People say that the Nobel Peace Prize lost legitimacy when it was given to Arafat. No, it truly lost all legitimacy when it was given to that idiot peanut farmer.
JIMMY CARTER IS WORSE THAN YASSER ARAFAT!
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By the way, on the accusation that Israelis "confiscate and colonize Palestinian land":
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"There is no such country as Palestine. 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented....Our country was for centuries part of Syria. 'Palestine' is alien to us."
-- Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi to the Peel Commission, 1937
Quote:
"There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not."
-- Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian to Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 1946
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"It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria."
-- Ahmed Shukairy, United Nations Security Council, 1956
Here's are some interesting webpages:
http://christianactionforisrael.org/isreport/july01/history_palestine.
html
http://www.sullivan-county.com/id3/palestine.htm
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