Sorry, but when someone says the Palestinians have been suffering ever since 1948, they’re as good as saying Israel has no right to exist. And Carter went far beyond that in a speech to the Palestinians today:
“I have been in love with the Palestinian people for many years,” he said Saturday, adding that this is a feeling shared by members of his family.
“I have two great-grandsons that are rapidly learning about the people here and the anguish and suffering and deprivation of human rights that you have experienced ever since 1948,” he said.
Referring to President Barack Obama’s call for an Israeli settlement freeze, Carter said that “in the future, I am sure, he will call for the dismantling of the settlements that exist.”
But he noted that Obama also called for an end to violence against Israelis and for Arab acceptance of Israelis’ right to their own nation. Carter said such acceptance is painful for displaced Palestinians, but that “there has to be an accommodation in the political world.”
Understand that he’s telling Palestinians that he knows it is “painful” that they have to accept the fact of Israel’s existence. Not that Israel has a right to exist. But that “there has to be an accomodation.” I think that’s CarterSpeak for not being able to beat the Israelis in 1948.
Unbelievable. And they call this man an honest broker? For whom? The terrorists?
I still come here every dam day to read your posts. Most of the time I nod, say “that sounds about right”, then leave to do other things. I’ve become so used to what the UN and Obama says about Israel that I just don’t even care to comment any longer.
But THIS… This… Utterly indefensible comment by the first Obama just made by blood boil! Is it really that PC to knock Israel now that Leftists are able to basically call Israel “an accommodation in the political world.â€?
So they won HOW many wars for the land, and yet they should just keel over and give it all away?
I have one question for “Dear Leader version 1.0” and his like:
If the Arabs had WON any of the past wars, and “drove every Jew into the sea”, are we to assume that according to the rules Arabs are SCREAMING for right now that they would have stopped, smiled, and said, “Okay, we win. But you can have all your land back?
I call Shenanigans on that! The Arabs want different rules. If they WIN, then they get to keep everything, as they PROVED when they held Gaza and the West Bank and didn’t give the land back to the Pali’s for their OWN state! But God forbid they lose! Then the rules change, and they should lose nothing!
What utter BULLSHIT! “Waaa! We lost! Give us our land back!” “Yaaa! We won! We’re killing all the Jews and keeping the land! What? We have to give it back? No… That only applies to Jews.”
Typical PC, Arab, UN, BULLSHIT.
I don’t know how Israel’s representative to the UN can keep a straight face when he’s there…
This statement from the “voted out of office due to incompetence” carter should
remove any doubt about his feelings for Israel. If he had said 1967, a few
would still bend over backwards to give him some support, but by stating
1948 we now all know what this SOB means! The only good thing is, he
is 85 years old.
I think Mr. “Double Digit Misery Index” needs come to terms that he has allowed himself to become enslaved to hate.
Besides, Big Guy upstairs will not look kindly upon Ole Jimmy Boy. There won’t be any air conditioning where he’s going.
No matter what he believes.
Israel will continue to exist and thrive.
Those who seek to destroy her and the rest of Mother Earth, will be dealt with in most unusual ways.
Carter does do something constructive for me. Given my blameless live and spotless, untarnished soul, I sometimes have trouble fulfilling the injunction every Yom Kippur to repent for my sins. What sins, I sometimes ask myself, other than perhaps my excessive modesty and generosity to a fault.
But then I remember that I not only voted for Carter twice, but the second time around I did a little organizing in my caucus for him, mostly because he was running against Teddy the Pretender. And that, hevrai, gives me something to atone for, although I’m not sure I can atone for that.