Note: This post refers to what’s commonly known in America as “the Jewish people” as “the Jewish Nation.” This does not refer to Israel, the Jewish state, but all Jewish people everywhere because in Genesis 12 2, God says, “And I will make you into a great nation.”
Today is one month since former President Jimmy Carter passed away, so it’s long enough to tell the truth about the man.
In a 2016 interview with the NY Times, Jimmy Carter said, “When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that’s a violation of basic human rights.”
I agree with him. But why, then, did he single out the Jewish people for hatred. For example, At his funeral, Joe Biden
echoed the speakers made it clear they did no research. For example, one speaker at his funeral used the Holocaust museum as an example of his support of the Jewish Nation:
Freedman said he sent a memo to Carter’s office containing recommendations for council board members. The memo was returned with a note on the upper right hand corner that stated, “Too many Jews.” The note, Freedman said, was written in Carter’s handwriting and was initialed by Carter.
The liberal law professor Alan Dershowitz also feels that Carter is a Jew-hater. In an essay talking about Carter’s anti-Semitic claims that the Jews control foreign policy and the media, he wrote:
The entire premise of his criticism of Jewish influence on American foreign policy is that money talks. It is Carter, not me, who has made the point that if politicians receive money from Jewish sources, then they are not free to decide issues regarding the Middle East for themselves. It is Carter, not me, who has argued that distinguished reporters cannot honestly report on the Middle East because they are being paid by Jewish money. So, by Carter’s own standards, it would be almost economically “suicidal” for Carter “to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine.”
(…) If money determines political and public views as Carter insists “Jewish money” does, Carter’s views on the Middle East must be deemed to have been influenced by the vast sums of Arab money he has received. If he who pays the piper calls the tune, then Carter’s off-key tunes have been called by his Saudi Arabian paymasters. It pains me to say this, but I now believe that there is no person in American public life today who has a lower ratio of real to apparent integrity than Jimmy Carter.
And don’t talk to me about Camp David. Yes, he moderated Between Begin and Sadat, but he also tried to kill the process as it was starting.
The peace treaty between Israel and Egypt was signed in Washington, D.C., on March 26, 1979. However, the treaty almost didn’t happen because U.S. President Jimmy Carter tried to scuttle the talks at their origin—when Anwar Sadat said he would visit Jerusalem. Sadat went anyway and arrived at the Israeli Capital 40 years ago today, November 19, 1977.
Thus, the two began bilateral talks, according to Yossi Alpher, a former senior adviser to Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. However, the brother of Billy Beer’s creator continued his attempts to muck up the works.
Before we continue, allow me to explain that the Jewish Nation is the Indigenous people of the land now called Israel. It has been their land since Joshuah led the Nation across the Jordan River about 3,400 years ago. Denial of the Jewish Nation’s historic connection to that land is Anti-Semitic. Denial of the Jewish Nation’s right to self-determination and statehood for the Jewish Nation in the land of Israel. Legitimate criticism of Israel’s government not related to the above is not Antisemitism.
.Jerusalem has been the capital of the Jewish Nation ever since King David captured it from the Jebusites over 3,000 years ago. Yet the UN Security Council (UNSC) voted on a resolution condemning Israel’s annexation of East Jerusalem. The condemnation was based on Israel’s 1980 Jerusalem Law, which declared Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. With a no vote, the United States would have vetoed the resolution, but Carter had his ambassador abstain. For the first time ever, the U.S. allowed an anti-Israel resolution to become international law via the UNSC.
After Carter’s death, the former failed President was praised for the Carter Center and his role as a man of peace worldwide. That praise ignores Carter’s Antisemitism via his hatred of Israel;
Ambassador Marc Ginsburg was Jimmy Carter’s deputy senior adviser on the Middle East and, from 1977 through 1980, the White House liaison to the State Department. He has a unique perspective on Carter’s Middle East dealings. According to the Ambassador, Carter blamed American Jews for his 1980 loss to Ronald Reagan.
I think there’s no doubt — particularly given the vantage point I had in the White House at the end of his administration — that he resents the way in which Israel and the American-Jewish community have failed to express sufficient gratitude for his efforts on behalf of peace in the Middle East.
“In my judgment, there’s no other explanation,” Ginsberg says
Then, in 2006, came Carter’s major hate-filled tome. Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” which was so Antisemetic that 14 members of a Carter Center community board resigned in protest. One of the 14 who resigned was Dr. Kenneth W. Stein, a professor and scholar who was an advisor to Jimmy Carter when he was President. Stein wrote;
Carter had a deep distrust of the American Jewish community, and other supporters of Israel. In a 1991 research interview with Carter for his book “Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace,” Carter recollected that:
Stein: Peace Not Apartheid, Carter’s twenty-first book and his second to focus on the Arab-Israeli conflict, is deficient. He does what no non-fiction author should ever do: He allows ideology or opinion to get in he way of facts. While Carter says that he wrote the book to educate and provoke debate, the narrative aims its attack toward Israel, Israeli politicians, and Israel’s supporters. It contains egregious errors of both commission and omission. To suit his desired ends, he manipulates information, redefines facts, and exaggerates conclusions. Falsehoods, when repeated and backed by the prestige of Carter’s credentials, can comprise an erroneous baseline for shaping and reinforcing attitudes and policymaking. Rather than bring peace, they can further fuel hostilities, encourage retrenchment, and hamper peacemaking.
Oh, and one more thing, Jimmy Carter hated Menachem Begin. And that hatred grew until the former Prime Minister passed away. In other words, Menachem Begin was in Carter’s head.
William Bradford Smith, Chair of the Division of History, Politics & International Studies at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, once sent a letter to the Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia, which said in part:
When I taught at Emory University, I used to see former President Jimmy Carter on a fairly regular basis, and it was all I could do at times to stop myself from spitting at him.
Carter’s hatred of Israel and, by extension, of all Jews (and make no mistake, if you spend any time in the man’s presence, his discomfort at being in the same room with someone who merely appears to be Jewish is palpable), is rooted in the man’s megalomania, and his unflinching belief in his own rectitude.
Carter didn’t hate everything in the Middle East. In May 2015, he met with Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas. He didn’t meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu, saying it would be a waste of time. Carter glowed over Masshal, saying he wanted peace and that Hamas wasn’t a terrorist organization.
I couldn’t find a comment in the news buy I wonder what former President Carter said about the October 7, 2023 massacre committed by that organization he said was not terrorists.
He would probably blame the Jews.