Just when you think Carter can’t become any more of an asshole, he lowers your expectations and proves you wrong. Now he’s telling Jews how to be Jews. He said that yesterday while insisting that his redefinition of “apartheid” to fit, well, whatever definition he so pleases, is right. Even though “apartheid” was a word that meant strictly the government discrimination of nonwhites in South Africa, but hey, why let the facts get in the way of a little healthy Jew-bashing?
By apartheid, Carter said he meant the forced segregation of one people by another. He said Israel’s policies in the territories are contrary to the tenets of the Jewish faith.
I would like to hear, exactly, what tenets that wanna-be Talmudic scholar James Earl Carter, Jr., who is a born-again Christian, is proclaiming these policies to be against.
Come on, Jimmy. Do tell. Inquiring minds want to know.
And here he goes again:
“There will be no peace until Israel agrees to withdraw from all occupied Palestinian territory,” he said, while leaving room for some land swaps that would permit Jews to remain on part of the West Bank in exchange for other Israeli-held land to be taken over by Palestinians.
“Withdrawal would dramatically reduce any threat to Israel,” he said.
Yes, because it’s working so well in Gaza, where Hamas is building up weapons stocks and sending its terrorists out to Iran for training for the next war against Israel—which will be a three-front war (Lebanon, Gaza, and Syria, with attacks attempted through the West Bank).
But it is Israel that is the barrier to peace. Right. Bagelblogger keeps track of the kassam missiles raining down on Israel during the sham “cease-fire.” The number is up to 141, but I think he missed the one fired Wednesday. This is from the Gaza Strip, which Israel no longer controls, and which has no Israelis within its territory.
Perhaps our former president might want to take his head out of his ass and take a look around the next time he visits the terrortories[sic]. He might learn something.
Jimmy Carter is an ass. Try not to loose any sleep over it (by it, I mean Jimmy)
Comment by Bert — 03/09/2007 @ 8:02 am
Of course based on some of the comments from Israel, it seems that one can say
and everyone would consider it an insult (including both Olmert and Carter).
Comment by Sabba Hillel — 03/09/2007 @ 8:26 am
I shook hands with Jimmy Carter once in Georgia. I need to wash my hands .
Comment by Paul — 03/09/2007 @ 8:45 am
Jimmy Carter ultimately cured me of ever voting for a liberal Democrat again.
Comment by Joel — 03/09/2007 @ 8:57 am
And Brandeis University gave this POS a standing ovation when he recently “honored” them with his visit. The problem is with the left wing and their utopian ideals, afraid to admit that some aspects of human behavior is just evil and cannot be reasoned with.
I wonder if the German Jews in the 1930’s tried to explain away the nazi philosophy as just political talk that would not really affect them.
Comment by Herschel — 03/09/2007 @ 10:02 am
As I’ve said many times before — one of the things I’m proudest of is voting against Jimmy Carter. Twice.
(Three, if you count Mondale as Carter II)
Comment by kev — 03/09/2007 @ 10:04 am
Jimmy Carter a failure at President and now a failure as a statesmen; he should go back home and try and raise some peanuts.As Ms Lillian said, “she should have had an abortion”; she did but gave birth to it!!!!
The more Jimmuh talks the smarter Billy looks. What a piece of human waste he is. If Jimmuh was to up and die I can just hear Boy George eulogizing him as a great President and great American. Pardon me while I hurl.
Comment by Joel — 03/09/2007 @ 10:10 am
#5 Herschel
Yes many (or at least some) German Jews, even those that were lucky enough to flee from Germany and come to America, oftentimes still yearned for Germany and felt that the Nazis would eventually get over their anti Semitism. They still thought of themselves as being German first.
Comment by Joel — 03/09/2007 @ 10:16 am
Jimmy Carter, more than any other single person, turned me into a jewish conservative (in the late 70s, when I was still in high school, and jewish conservatives were much rarer than they are today). I turned 18 in time to cast a vote against him, which still gives me pleasure to remember, though I can no longer remember why I voted for Howard Baker in the Republican primary in Md.
Comment by TMA — 03/09/2007 @ 11:15 am
In other words, Carter does not think the Arabs need to live up to Security Council Resolution 242, which was deliberately worded to omit the word “all”.
Comment by Yankev — 03/09/2007 @ 11:26 am
Jimmy Carter is wrong.
Before June 1967 Israel, was by definition and historically documented FACT not in possession of “Palestinian” territory.
And after the 6 day war, the PM of Israel, Levi Eskol offerred to give all the legally captured land, won in a purely defensive war, back to the Arabs for “peace”
The Arabs refused with their infamous, notorious 3 No’s.
And to this day the illegal, by internataional law, government of “Saudi” Arabia, refuses to recognize the mere EXISTENCE of Israel. Let alone it’s right to exist.
They same criminal government whose leading members have given the Carter Center untold MILLIONS of dollars.
Jimmy Carter should be forced to register as the agent of a foreign, illegal occupying government. Not given an honored place in the halls of academe.
Comment by Ted — 03/09/2007 @ 12:48 pm
Well, he has one point. Israel has deliberately avoided invoking one “tenet of the Jewish faith” in dealing with the Palestinians.
I don’t think he’d care for the results of it being invoked, however.
Comment by Eric J — 03/09/2007 @ 2:51 pm
Ah. I see it’s “Palestinian territory” but “Israeli-held land.” Telling. Does Mr. Carter even believe there is such a thing as Israeli territory? Or would that be, to his mind, Brooklyn?
Comment by LynnB — 03/09/2007 @ 5:27 pm
#10 Yankev,
“There will be no peace until Israel agrees to withdraw from all occupied Palestinian territory,”
Is Carter so senile that he does not understand that the Arabs ultimately consider Tel Aviv and every other inch of Israel “occupied Palestinian territory.” Or is this part of his double speak agenda?
I will not support anyone, or any group who fawns over this fool and fails to criticize his anti Israel/Jewish position. I voted for this man twice, and regret my youthfull nievety to this day.
Comment by Herschel — 03/09/2007 @ 5:33 pm
Carter is penis.
Comment by Lil Mamzer — 03/09/2007 @ 6:24 pm
Shabbat Shalom everyone. It’s going to be hard heading into Erev Shabbat with this article lapping the shores of my mind. Just trying to explain my previous comment.
Comment by Lil Mamzer — 03/09/2007 @ 6:26 pm