Jimmy Carter - Undefeated Heavy Weight Champion of the World
After weeks of being attacked and defamed by Zionist opponents, the diminutive 83 year old former president emerges both unscathed and victorious.
"I have been called a liar,""I have been called an anti-Semite,"
"I have been called a bigot.
I have been called a plagiarist.
I have been called a coward.
Those kind of accusations, they concern me, but they don't detract from the fact the book is accurate and is needed"
--Jimmy Carter, at a town hall meeting
on the second day of a three-day symposium
on his presidency at the University of Georgia.
The man is a political genius and a true heavy weight champion.
Zionists are coming apart at the seams trying to figure out how to bring Carter down without looking bad.
No matter how they try - nothing seems to work against this political powerhouse.
People still love him.
People still respect him.
Dammit! Who, what or where is this man's Cryptonite?!!
Following the publication of the book: "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," 14 members of an advisory board to his Carter Center resigned in protest. Those former board members and other critics contend the book is unfairly critical of Israel."Not one of the critics of my book has contradicted any of the basic premises ... that is the horrible persecution and oppression of the Palestinian people and secondly that the formula for finding peace in the Middle East already exists," the 82-year-old Carter said.
Wow! Amazing double hook!
He not only condemns israeli treatment of Palestinians, he calls israelis to task for pretending that they're hands are tied.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Peace is accessible - ISRAELIS don't want it.
He even rubs their noses in his victory (and their defeat) . . .
Carter said he was pleased the book has stimulated discussion of an issue that has been "omitted from the public consciousness" for at least the last six years."Israel needs peace and the Palestinian people need peace and justice and I hope my limited influence will help to precipitate some steps," he said.
He's so modest!
His influence is hardly 'limited'.
He was loved and respected by almost everyone who knew his work, long before he released this book.
His performance since then has done nothing less than catapult him to superstar status.
Also Saturday, Carter, at times emotional [God bless his soul], told a town hall meeting of how he saved the 1978 Camp David peace talks when it appeared Egyptian president Anwar Sadat would leave.
Carter said in the first three days of the talks Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin often argued. After about a week, Carter said, Sadat reached a breaking point and packed his bags to return to Egypt — and Carter "knelt down and prayed and I asked God to help me."
Carter said he then walked to Sadat's cabin.
"Sadat and I stood with our noses almost touching and I told him that he had betrayed me and betrayed his own people and if he left our friendship was severed forever and the relationship between the United States and Egypt would suffer."
Sadat agreed to stay, and the Camp David Accords were signed after 12 days of negotiations.
The three-day conference was arranged to mark the 30th anniversary of Carter's 1977 inauguration.
He may be old and fragile and have a boyish smile, but he's the most formidable opponent of israeli policy that zionists have EVER had.
And he's not finished with them yet.
The guy's amazing!
Watch it, if you can!
even a Southern Baptist.
I bet his views will have a lot of influence on American Christians.
Bush´s base is trembling.
Allthough Bush´s real base are the worshippers of Mammon.
Great article, qrswave. We bloggers are gaining ground in the battle over truth, but the Big Media still rules the roost.
We and your readers need to take the basteds down another notch.
Best,
Marc
---
PMWATCH - January 20, 2007 -- The campaign to demonize, silence, and make an example of former President Jimmy Carter for daring to write a book that points out that Palestinians are living in a state worse than South African Apartheid, continues unabated.
Predictably enough, the attacks have now shifted from wild accusations that Mr. Carter is turning a blind eye to terrorism to insinuations that he is a latent anti-Semite, with the attacks clearly heading towards open accusations that President Carter is indeed anti-Semitic and an equal of David Duke.
The op-ed below, published today in the Washington Post, is the latest offering from this vicious campaign to destroy the reputation of a man who has for decades enjoyed the respect and admiration of many people across the spectrum of political opinion.
The writer casts President Carter as willfully ignoring Jewish suffering and minimizing the Holocaust. Evidence that the man has repeatedly demonstrated through his words and deeds that he deeply cares for the establishment of peace for both Jews and non-Jews in the Holy Land and that he is not anti-Semitic, is not only dismissed off-hand but used as evidence that along the way, something must have gone terribly wrong with the former president.
Sure, the writer mentions in passing, President Carter "signed the legislation creating the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum." But instead of taking that piece of evidence as reason to pause and reconsider the validity of her accusations, she flips reality over its head and uses that fact as more reason to be perplexed about Mr. Carter's intentions.
Such attacks will continue and will have their intended effect unless we mobilize, one letter to the editor at a time, to counter them.
Please take a few moments to read the op-ed below and to write a letter to the editor.
Letters must be 250 words and can be sent to:
letters@washpost.com
Please include your name, address and telephone number when you email your letter to the Washington Post.
For tips on writing letters, go to:
http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/tools/T_WritingLetters.asp
Please also feel free to share with us your letters or a summary of
your conversations with editors at letters@pmwatch.org
You can also call us at: (866) DIAL-PMW.
Palestine Media Watch
info@pmwatch.org
(866) DIAL-PMW
http://www.pmwatch.org/
URL
==============================================================
Jimmy Carter's Jewish Problem
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/19/AR2007011901541_pf.html
By Deborah Lipstadt
Saturday, January 20, 2007; A23
It is hard to criticize an icon. Jimmy Carter's humanitarian work has saved countless lives. Yet his life has also been shaped by the Bible, where the Hebrew prophets taught us to speak truth to power. So I write.
Carter's book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," while exceptionally sensitive to Palestinian suffering, ignores a legacy of mistreatment, expulsion and murder committed against Jews. It trivializes the murder of Israelis. Now, facing a storm of criticism, he has relied on anti-Semitic stereotypes in defense.
One cannot ignore the Holocaust's impact on Jewish identity and the history of the Middle East conflict. When an Ahmadinejad or Hamas threatens to destroy Israel, Jews have historical precedent to believe them. Jimmy Carter either does not understand this or considers it irrelevant.
His book, which dwells on the Palestinian refugee experience, makes two fleeting references to the Holocaust. The book contains a detailed chronology of major developments necessary for the reader to understand the current situation in the Middle East. Remarkably, there is nothing listed between 1939 and 1947. Nitpickers might say that the Holocaust did not happen in the region. However, this event sealed in the minds of almost all the world's people then the need for the Jewish people to have a Jewish state in their ancestral homeland. Carter never discusses the Jewish refugees who were prevented from entering Palestine before and after the war. One of Israel's first acts upon declaring statehood was to send ships to take those people "home."
A guiding principle of Israel is that never again will persecuted Jews be left with no place to go. Israel's ideal of Jewish refuge is enshrined in laws that grant immediate citizenship to any Jew who requests it. A Jew, for purposes of this law, is anyone who, had that person lived in Nazi Germany, would have been stripped of citizenship by the Nuremberg Laws.
Compare Carter's approach with that of Rashid Khalidi, head of Columbia University's Middle East Institute and a professor of Arab studies there. His recent book "The Iron Cage" contains more than a dozen references to the seminal place the Holocaust and anti-Semitism hold in the Israeli worldview. This from a Palestinian who does not cast himself as an evenhanded negotiator.
In contrast, by almost ignoring the Holocaust, Carter gives inadvertent comfort to those who deny its importance or even its historical reality, in part because it helps them deny Israel's right to exist. This from the president who signed the legislation creating the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Carter's minimization of the Holocaust is compounded by his recent behavior. On MSNBC in December, he described conditions for Palestinians as "one of the worst examples of human rights deprivation" in the world. When the interviewer asked "Worse than Rwanda?" Carter said that he did not want to discuss the "ancient history" of Rwanda.
To give Carter the benefit of the doubt, let's say that he meant an ongoing crisis. Is the Palestinians' situation equivalent to Darfur, which our own government has branded genocide?
Carter has repeatedly fallen back -- possibly unconsciously -- on traditional anti-Semitic canards. In the Los Angeles Times last month, he declared it"politically suicide" for a politician to advocate a "balanced position" on the crisis. On Al-Jazeera TV, he dismissed the critique of his book by declaring that "most of the condemnations of my book came from Jewish-American organizations." Jeffrey Goldberg, who lambasted the book in The Post last month, writes for the New Yorker. Ethan Bronner, who in the New York Times called the book "a distortion," is the Times' deputy foreign editor. Slate's Michael Kinsley declared it "moronic." Dennis Ross, who was chief negotiator on the conflict in the administrations of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, described the book as a rewriting and misrepresentation of history. Alan Dershowitz teaches at Harvard and Ken Stein at Emory. Both have criticized the book. Because of the book's inaccuracies and imbalance and Carter's subsequent behavior, 14 members of the Carter Center's Board of Councilors have resigned -- many in anguish because they so respect Carter's other work. All are Jews. Does that invalidate their criticism -- and mine -- or render us representatives of Jewish organizations?
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.
Others can enumerate the many factual errors in this book. A man who has done much good and who wants to bring peace has not only failed to move the process forward but has given refuge to scoundrels.
The writer teaches at Emory University. Her latest book is "History on Trial: My Day in Court With David Irving."
---
View all comments that have been posted about this article.
"you may have proven Carter's point"
the comments that follow are pricless!
It indicates the zionist stranglehold on the public's mind is finally waning!
But, clearly, the battle has only begun.
Time to step up our efforts and stand united against this horrible supremacist ideology.
Everyone should take a look at the link to the comments about the Washington Post article. There some very smart statements there, some good points to make when countering the Zionist propagandists.
Justice Seeker; Right you are indeed, that EVERYONE, and his/her mother should read these comments. I would simply add, in order to expedite that process, that one need NOT read the entire Lipstadt piece to understand what trash it is. A few sentences will do.
"Lipstadt wants the world to accept the Judaic obsession with World War II and when the world pushes back to say there were other holocausts, including an on-going, low-intensity version in Palestine, she responds with outrageous insults comparing Jimmy Carter to David Duke. The truth about Zionist influence in America is not made less true by using a cliche ("canard"), to describe it. Let us also recall that Prof. Lipstadt is herself a "Holocaust-denier": in an article in the newspaper, "Forward," she denied the Allied holocaust in Dresden. What gives her that privilege while attacking Carter for "Holocaust" minimalism? The headline of her Op-Ed piece ("Jimmy Carter's Jewish Problem") plays on a familiar intimidation factor: no respectable figure in American society is supposed to have a "Jewish problem," because of the presumption of Judaic blamelessness. Alone among the peoples of the earth, Judaics are never to blame for anything. Hence, in the fevered minds of some, anyone who has a "problem" with Judaics is automatically a potential Haman/Hitler/David Duke. This kind of hysterical hyperbole is a public relations disaster for Judaics. Reader reaction to Lipstadt on the Washington Post's website is running five to one against her column, and embarrassingly for them, Carter's main critics continue to be mostly only Zionists!"
See ? All I had to do was read your comment to get it.
"Fuck the Jews!" in stating his intention to destroy the regressive Israeli influence in Washington should he acquire the re-election victory.
Ronald Reagan won in a proverbial landslide over the Iran hostage crisis as well as perceived incompetence of the Carter administration in tackling on the challenging national economy issue.
Allow me to emphasize -- "Fuck the [Zionist] Jews!"
Zionists deserve getting their asses booted out of the U.S. to cut off the regressive and ill-harboring influence.
If General Patton were alive -- I believe he was a victim of homicide under a mysterious circumstance of a freak vehicle accident to prevent the chance of running for U.S. President that would belt Eisenhower in defeat -- he would ramp up the defense of the Republic of U.S. aggressively against negative domestic and foreign enemies. He would be about as great as General Andrew Jackson in street-wise tactics as the Commander in Chief.
Of course General Patton wanted war with USSR after WWII concludes to slide into the Cold War. That would be very ill-advised.
Still, despite Carter's flaws, he is a wise man who knows the evil Israeli influence that continue to have terribly ill effects on the overall health of not only the U.S. but also the world.
State of Israel will face the ultimate judgment in the near future...
--
My blog Last Throes of US Empire
"The (Washington Post) writer casts President Carter as willfully ignoring Jewish suffering and minimizing the Holocaust. Evidence that the man has repeatedly demonstrated through his words and deeds that he deeply cares for the establishment of peace for both Jews and non-Jews in the Holy Land and that he is not anti-Semitic, is not only dismissed off-hand but used as evidence that along the way, something must have gone terribly wrong with the former president."
This paragraph just about sums up the way I have been treated by Zionists and Jews on every MB hosted by the mainstream media. It would be interesting to know if this strategy works for them or whether lots and lost of people can see through the nonsense.
http://pcapostate.blogspot.com/2007/01/deborah-lipstadt-is-less-popular-...
Politically Correct Apostate: Deborah Lipstadt is less popular than Chicken Manure
An article in the National Review suggests that Carter has been improperly influenced because he takes money from Arabs and Venezuela. Aparently, if you take money from anyone other than Israel, your objectivity has been compromised.
http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=NmVlNzc4OWI5YTc4MDY1MzhiMDM2OWR...
Of course, the article was written by Claudia Rosett of the "Foundation for Defense of Democracies".
According to Jeffrey Blankfort, a Jewish anti-Zionist activisit in California (former editor of the Middle East Labor Review), the FDD:
"For those of you who haven't heard of this "foundation," it is one of the most influential and powerful of the Zionist lobbies which changed its name and sprung into action immediately after 9-11. If you check its board, its advisors, you'll find a lot of familiar names, the neocons..."