Saturday, June 14, 2014

Blood on His Hands?

Jimmy Carter said this in his book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" - “There was no possibility that any Palestinian leader could accept such terms (as the ones offered at Camp David in 2000) and survive.” What I want to know is the same exact thing that Professor Alan Dershowitz wants to know, what Dennis Ross (U.S. Special Middle-East Coordinator under Bush 1 and Clinton) wants to know, and what Kenneth Stein (formerly of the Carter Center) wants to know; namely, did Mr. Carter, who was advising Yasser Arafat during those peace talks, advise Mr. Arafat to not take that very generous offer from Prime Minister Barak and President Clinton and to walk away instead? As far as I know, this is the one inquiry that the former President has never answered and the silence here is deafening.

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6 comments:

dmarks said...

That book and the ex-President's ideas on this were dead on arrival, idea-wise. "Apartheid" has never been involved with that situation, other than as a term used in false accusations by rabid haters of Jewish people. But unfortunately this is not the first time Carter has cribbed such illegitimate ideas from extremists.

June 15, 2014 at 5:20 AM
Will "take no prisoners" Hart said...

There are Israeli Arabs in the Knesset, on the Supreme Court, in the media, and all throughout the university system and for Carter (who I HAVE defended in the past) to use that particular word in this particular situation is quite unfortunate.

June 15, 2014 at 4:56 PM
dmarks said...

This review of the book brings up Carter's interview in which he all but bemoaned that favorite Neo-Nazi canard, Jewish control of the media:

" On CNN, Carter bemoaned the "tremendous intimidation in our country that has silenced" the media. Carter has appeared on C-SPAN, "Larry King Live" and "Meet the Press," among many shows. When a caller to C-SPAN accused Carter of anti-Semitism, the host cut him off. Who's being silenced?

Perhaps unused to being criticized, Carter reflexively fell back on this kind of innuendo about Jewish control of the media and government. Even if unconscious, such stereotyping from a man of his stature is noteworthy. When David Duke spouts it, I yawn. When Jimmy Carter does, I shudder."

I, too, have defended him on other matters. You have seen it. But not on matters such as this.

June 15, 2014 at 5:02 PM
Will "take no prisoners" Hart said...

Carter's book and comments pertaining to it were so over-the-top that Kenneth Stein, one of the founding members of the Carter Center, had to resign in protest.......And of all the oppressed people in the world; the Kurds, the Tibetans, numerous populations in Africa, why would anybody want to focus so on the Palestinians, a group that literally supported Hitler and who have already turned down statehood over a half dozen times? Makes no sense.

June 15, 2014 at 7:27 PM
dmarks said...

True, Will. The Palestinian government of the time was a part of the Axis Powers, and even sent soldiers to Europe to help in the Holocaust. Arafat's mentors were from this era.

The current Palestinian leaders need to stop trying to continue the Holocaust in the area of Israel, and apologize for so many decades of a truly evil war effort. And then there would easily be peace.

June 15, 2014 at 7:41 PM
Will "take no prisoners" Hart said...

Not nearly on a par with Hitler obviously, the Brits as well share some culpability here; the fact that they ultimately sided with the oil-drenched Arabs and seriously restricted Jewish emigration to Palestine both after and DURING the war, the fact British soldiers actually used the butts of their rifles to beat down Holocaust survivors, etc..

June 16, 2014 at 7:53 PM

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