Oh, look. Former president and would-be peacemaker—whose failures include negotiating with North Korea to get them to stop building nuclear weapons—has an idea who’s behind all the troubles in the world, too. Hey, maybe he and Mel Gibson could start a club!
This is what he wrote in an op-ed for today’s WaPo:
The general parameters of a long-term, two-state agreement are well known. There will be no substantive and permanent peace for any peoples in this troubled region as long as Israel is violating key U.N. resolutions, official American policy and the international “road map” for peace by occupying Arab lands and oppressing the Palestinians. Except for mutually agreeable negotiated modifications, Israel’s official pre-1967 borders must be honored.
You see? It’s all Israel’s fault.
Get this logic: Israel adds to the situation by taking and holding prisoners. I suppose Carter figures if palestinian and Lebanese terrorists try to kill Israelis, Israel should just shrug her shoulders and wave them bye-bye at the border.
One of the special vulnerabilities of Israel, and a repetitive cause of violence, is the holding of prisoners. Militant Palestinians and Lebanese know that a captured Israeli soldier or civilian is either a cause of conflict or a valuable bargaining chip for prisoner exchange. This assumption is based on a number of such trades, including 1,150 Arabs, mostly Palestinians, for three Israeli soldiers in 1985; 123 Lebanese for the remains of two Israeli soldiers in 1996; and 433 Palestinians and others for an Israeli businessman and the bodies of three soldiers in 2004.
This stratagem precipitated the renewed violence that erupted in June when Palestinians dug a tunnel under the barrier that surrounds Gaza and assaulted some Israeli soldiers, killing two and capturing one.
Do you see how this creep turns logic inside-out? He blames Israel for attempting to stop terrorists from killing her citizens, not the terrorists for killing those citizens. He repeats the lie that Israel simply arrests palestinians for no reason. He blames Israel for causing the reasons why terrorists killed two soldiers and captured Cpl. Gilad Shalit (notice how carefully Carter does not use his name, thus dehumanizing Israel subtly). There is no blame whatsoever on the terrorists—ever.
You know, he could make his Jew-hatred a bit more plain, but I don’t see how.
I never thought I’d live to say this, but thank Gd Reagan won in 1980.
Dear Meryl,
That’s PRECISELY why it is a good thing that Reagan won in 1980.
Best,
-gadi
I guess we will be seeing condemnation from Howard Dean now that he is at the forefront of condemning anti-semitism? I’m not holding my breath.
To my eternal shame, I voted for this Jew-hating sonofabitch back in 1976 and in 1980.
And every Yom Kippur, I klop myself black and blue by way of atonement. Gaaaah!
Elisson,
Me too. I can justify voting for hiim in 1976, after Watergate (and when I didn’t know yet what a creep he is). But voting for him in 1980 was possibly the stupidest thing I have done in my life, ever.
I didn’t know just how bad he was until I saw him a few years ago being interviewed by Bill Moyers (early ’90s, probably). At one point he started ranting sarcastically about the “Chosen People” and my jaw dropped to the floor. I couldn’t believe I was hearing this garbage from a former President of the US. Most people don’t realize how bad he is – as an antisemite he’s up there, I mean down there, with Buchanan, Duke and Farrakhan.
There are fewer nicknames more apt than “Dhimmi” Carter. How perfect.
Don’t forget — the Carter Center was built with Saudi money. Jimmuh’s attitude to Jews is hardly a surprise.