Arab funding of Carter center puts Jimmy's objectivity in doubt
While I don't challenge Jimmy Carter's personal integrity (and thus disavow the head on this article), is it possible that his anti-Israeli lurch might at least have been subjectively influenced by funding the Carter Center is getting from Arab sources?
Many of those who have respected Carter over the years (myself included, despite my change of attitude toward the former president in the last few years) have been dismayed by the unbalanced nature of his recent book on the Middle East. This simply does not seem to be the Carter of the Camp David Accords, the honest broker who accomplished one of the great diplomatic coups of the Twentieth Century.
Jimmy Carter seems more and more a leftist ideologue these days, and less and less like the centrist man of conscience we elected in 1976. The recent death of Gerald Ford, and the attention given his character and his term of office, combine with Carter's recent behavior to make it all too clear, in retrospect, what a mistake we made in that year]s election.
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"It is imperative that the general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups make it clear that they will end the suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism when international laws and the ultimate goals of the Roadmap for Peace are accepted by Israel." [Emphasis added]
The NY Post continues in its article:
"You don't have to read between the lines here.
"Carter isn't calling on the Palestinians to give up terror and murder now as a way to convince Israel they are serious about peace. Rather, he says they can wait until they've achieved their goals at the bargaining table. No need, says Carter, to give up terrorism until then.
"Certainly, that's how 14 members of the Carter Center's advisory board read that paragraph. Indeed, it's why they angrily submitted their resignations last week...."
"How did this man ever become president of the United States?
"He's gone from failed president to friend of left-wing tyrants and global scold of anything that represents America's legitimate interests.
"Now, in his bid to demonize Israel (recall that he secretly gave PR and political advice to Yasser Arafat), Carter has turned mythmaker - distorting history and misrepresenting facts, when he isn't making them up altogether.
"That's bad enough, of course.
"But when he flatly condones mass murder, he goes beyond the pale."
Jimmy is just another demonrat.