Peloni: Feldstein provides an utterly fair depiction of a remarkably unrepentant antisemite. Carter’s hatred of Jews was the focus of his post presidential years and thru it, he caused an great deal of unnecessary harm to the Jewish people. Any sentiment being expressed in the wake of his death should be reserved for those who suffered from his flagrant lies and distortions over the years and not for Carter who memory should be split between his utter failure as a president of the US and his success at stoking Jew Hatred around the world while defending the terrorists and terrorism. His was a life which was truly poorly lived, or so I would and do argue.
Jonathan Feldstein
Ok Jimmy Carter died. Many will fill volumes writing now that he was a good guy, honest, smart, did some good things as president and in his post presidency. Despite many of these things being true, to me Carter was an unrepentant antisemite who made excuses for Arab aggression and terror against Israel. For that alone and using the pulpit of his presidency in exile to spread these messages, I say good riddance.
As a failed one term president despite some achievements including helping to broker the Camp David peace agreement with Israel and Egypt, Carters abysmal policies vis a vis Iran left the US ally Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi overthrown by Islamists, himself dying in exile, paving the way for the Islamic Republic regime to take over Iran which it has hijacked for the past 46 years. The Iranian hostage crisis was an example of Carters weakness and underscored by the fact that the hostages were released the day Carter was out of office.
His ineptitude was on full display then and paved the way for the Iranian Islamic regime to become the world’s largest state sponsor of l terror. These are not mere words. Millions of Israelis and Iranians as well as Jews and others are still suffering as a result.
Carter’s antisemitism was not only unrepentant but arrogant as if only he knew the truth, but his truth was a cocktail of distortions and fantasy, looking at the Middle East through a prism about how he thought things should be rather than how they were.
His book “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid” deliberately kept his legitimization of terrorism against Israel despite being called out as such, no apology, no correction, no recall: just a playbook about why killing Jews was OK.
Carter wrote, “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.”
Basically: as long as Israel doesn’t do what Carter thinks it should do, terrorism against Israel will continue and is legitimate.
Carter doubled down on his anti-Israel rhetoric and hate as a leading member of “The Elders,” a group of failed world leaders who colluded in multiple ways to continue his anti-Israel diatribe.
In 2009, Carter visited my neighborhood, Gush Etzion, where he surprised many my stating that in an eventual two state solution (creating a Palestinian Arab state in Judea and Samaria- the “West Bank” and Gaza), he did not envision that Israel would have to return places like this. “”I never imagined that Gush Etzion would be transferred to Palestinian hands.”
Maybe he misspoke or was just making friendly chit chat but the praise he received then for looking at the reality and not stringent black and white policies in which Israel was always to blame was short lived and not repeated. He must have realized that legitimizing Israeli “settlements” in any way complicated his notion that it was still OK for Palestinian Arab terrorists to kill us.
Carter repeatedly blamed he Jews both for voting for Ted Kennedy in an unprecedented primary campaign against a sitting president, and then losing to Ronald Reagan. To him the Jews were disloyal if not all powerful. Unencumbered by living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Carter simply allowed his antisemitic tendencies to take prime time in his presidency in exile.
As a student at Emory where his failed presidency found a home, I had several interactions with Carter. Yes, he was charming, and his soft-spoken demeanor lent one to think he was a good guy.
One day in the late 1980s he was making public remarks following another trip throughout the Middle East where he had no problem cozying up to the original Assad dictatorship and other terror leaders. His public comments throughout the trip were a dizzying litany of anti-Israel comments, throughout the Arab capitals where he was feted and when he was in Israel. Basically, he blamed Israel for everything wrong and the lack of peace in the Middle East.
During the question and answer. There was time for one question and my hand shot up. it had been the week of the anniversary of the camp David accords, and I thanked him for helping to make that possible to which he his big peanut smile. Then I asked him if, as a representative of Emory university was it not academically disingenuous to travel the world and blame Israel for lack of peace while not holding the Arabs at least equally accountable.
His peanut smile turned to a scowl, and he began a tirade about how I was wrong, and Israel is to blame. I never had a former president get angry at me and “rip me a new one.”
It felt good not because I upset him, but because I called him out in public for his dishonesty and he had no good answer other than perpetuating his biased rate which was on full display.
Carter has been on hospice for a very long time and his death was inevitable. From my perspective, long overdue. I ask myself why God gives people like this who have such evil in their hearts so many extra years. My only explanation, or rationalization, is maybe God was giving him a chance to repent and Jimmy Carter needed that many more years to do so.
I’m not convinced that he did repent and while it would be appropriate to throw the baby out with the bathwater and he never did anything good, and that would be dishonest, he was a failed one term, president, and he did on ambiguously call for and justify, the terrorist murder of my people that disqualifies him from Sainthood or many of the other honors and memories that others will share in the days to come.
At least in remembering his life, let us remember that he at least indirectly caused tremendous pain and suffering, and death for which building houses for poor people is no redeeming compensation.
Jimmy Carter brought us Mullah rule in Iran. He insisted the Shah allow Khomeni back into Iran which sparked the Islamic Revolution. Carter in also blind, stupid an naive manner thought Khomeni was a noble religious man and the father of Shite Islamic Terrorism that he was.
Carter was a raging anti-Semite and hater of Israel. He promoted Hamas and constantly spewed lies about Israel.
Carter lived about an extra 10 years because of an Israeli medicine for melanoma on the brain. Ironic because Carter was consistent about one thing throwing Israel under the bus and lying about it. Carter forever rationalized Palestinians terrorism including that of Hamas.
Donaldo,
You seem to revel in attacking people who can’t answer you. We used to call such people bullies and cowards. You have the morality of an SS guard; you are as fearsome as a grave robber and a maggot. The rotting corpses of the world stand beside the Almighty to condemn you. If you want to insult people, insult me. At least I can (and WILL) answer you back.
As for President Carter, he made it to be president of the greatest country on earth. What have YOU done, bigmouth?
Biden racing to tie Carter for the worst President in history.
Biden just squandered another $5.9B of US taxpayer money on Ukraine.
Michael S’s post is so much twaddle. Carter was NEVER at the controls of a nuclear submarine. He was never in command of a crew to do a cleanup – he was in a program to possibly be selected for the captains program but he dropped out after less than 2 months in to go back to being the only thing he knew to how to command – Peanut farming.
Like every thing in his life, he was a nice affable guy, but mostly just a poseur.
And someone said principled????? – come now, look at his inner circle of swine, and 3mm more ballots than voters, and he said it was just swell??? Bizarro definition of principled, I have to say.
He made Forrest Gump look Mensa.
A principled man in an unprincipled world.
While many say you should not speak ill of the dead, it needs to be brought forward thart Carter’s accomplishments were few and far between.
1. he was never a nuclear sub captain. The closest he ever got to nuclear material was when he had a mop in hand, cleaning up a spill at the Chalk River Laboratories near Deep River in Canada. He was NOT in charge of the cleanup, he was just one of 20 expendables sent up to help clean.
2. He certified the election in South Africa, that brought Nelson Mandela to power, where 3mm more votes were cast than eligible voters. Once a Democrat, always a Democrat. And the country has never recovered from Mandela’s corrupt rule.
3. His chief election financier, Burt Lance, ran one of the largest check kiteing opertion in American history.
4. His Chief of Staff, Hamilton Jordan, lived in a motorhome on the Whitehouse lawn, were he would bring women, coke them up and have is way with them. And at at state dinner, he pulled the dress of the wife of the Ambassador from Egypt down so he could see her “twin pyramids”.
The man and his family and administration were and are Georgia hillbillies. Nice, but still… totally unqualified hillbillies.
A veteran Marine friend tells it like it is:
I will not miss him.
Gas lines.
17.5% VA guarantee loan on new home in Sarasota in 1973.
Panama Canal.
Department of Education.
Shah of Iran.
All true. Add the fact that money was more important to Carter than his so-called faith. He was raised in a denomination that loves and supports Israel and her people, but he turned his back on his faith and on Israel by accepting filthy lucre from the Arabs, all to hate the people, he should have been helping.
I considered him to be the worst president in US history. That is until Obama came into the scene. Sad to say there are so many to choose from. The current president (if that’s what he’s called) is also vying for top spot. The only difference is that we all know that he was not calling the shots.
I would say that Carter had an obsession with blaming Israel for everything and was vociferous about it. More so than the other 2 pieces of drek.
As I’m writing this I’m listening to CNN where he is receiving a hero’s good bye. I will submit something similar to what we are all posting here in my mainstream media here in Canada in order to balance the BS that will surely be published.
I could say that he outlived his usefulness but that would be a lie. He was never useful. He caused much damage to the Jewish people everywhere and especially Israelis. In fact he caused much damage to all good people everywhere and weakened the US to an unprecedented level that only Obama and then Biden could manage to make even worse.
Good riddance Carter, may your name be forgotten.
“…The reality of the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023, mushrooming into a global campaign of rabid antisemitism can be traced back to the Camp David Accords, which President Jimmy Carter forced with all the power of an American president on the late Prime Minister Menachem Begin in September 1978, established the framework for a treaty under which a US-armed Egypt is now in a position to join forces with the US-armed Turkey to deliver a devastating blow to Israel.
The Camp David discussions also covered the future of Israeli settlements, and the most challenging issues were Gaza, Judea, and Samaria. The Israeli and Egyptian delegations were particularly divided on whether United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 should apply to a long-term agreement in these territories and on the status of Israeli settlements during the anticipated negotiations on Palestinian autonomy following a peace treaty.
That was the beginning of the end. The Carter team attempted to force Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai in favor of Egypt, and the other liberated territories in favor of a Palestinian state. Egypt insisted on an Israeli withdrawal to the June 4, 1967 borders in exchange for security arrangements and minor border modifications. Israel rejected Egypt’s insistence on withdrawal, especially from Judea, Samaria, and Gaza.
The Begin team argued instead for a Palestinian autonomy during a five-year interim period followed by the possibility of sovereignty after the interim period expired.
Ultimately, the Summit “Framework” documents outlined the principles for a bilateral peace treaty and proposed a framework for Palestinian self-governance in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria.
On Dec. 18, 1978, the immortal William Safire wrote in the Times:
“The blame?the?Jews orchestration from the Carter men will continue while the President himself refrains, Kissinger?style, from saying so publicly. Joel Sherman, the U.S. spokesman most despised by the Israelis, is expected to let it be known on background that Mr. Begin is a liar; White House aide Ed Sanders will dutifully bring in groups of Jewish leaders to be told that Jimmy knows best about the survival of Israel; and news manager Gerry Rafshoon will arrange for foreign policy announcements — like the accommodation of China’s wish for us to terminate our Taiwan defense agreement — to distract attention from the failure of the last big stunt.”
GEORGIA NO PEACE I FIND
The mainstream media are flooding the airwaves this morning with hails to the US president who succeeded in establishing peace between the old enemies Israel and Egypt. But in reality, there is no peace between the two countries, there are no cultural ties, no common endeavors, it all remains on paper. And when President Mohamed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, won the election in 2012, that peace treaty was on its way to being torn up and dumped in the garbage if not for the coup that reinstated military rule.
Israel has won nothing from the Camp David Accords, not even militarily. For the past 50-some years, Egypt has been encouraging arms smuggling into the Gaza Strip, bolstering daily attacks on Israel. Egypt has also fostered one of the biggest armies in the region, some of it with Israeli support. Meanwhile, Syria, which didn’t sign anything and didn’t take back any land, has been subdued by the IDF to the point where today it does not pose a threat – at least for the foreseeable years…”
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/obituaries/jimmy-carter-dead-at-100-damaged-the-security-of-the-jews-and-israel/2024/12/30/
Much more informative. Everybody is giving credit to Carter for the Camp David Accords but that was one of his most evil deeds in a life filled with them.
Jimmy Carter’s Navy Service
https://news.usni.org/2024/12/29/jimmy-carter-39th-u-s-president-and-submariner-dies-at-100