Jimmy Carter's another anti Semitic Democrat

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has endorsed a Palestinian unity government that includes the terrorist group Hamas.

Speaking in Ramallah on Saturday, Carter called for elections in both Gaza and the West Bank, and went on to endorse the "full implementation of the agreement reached between Hamas and Fatah," referring to a unity government formed by the two parties.

Although the unity government officially exists, Hamas has not handed control of the Gaza Strip over to the Palestinian Authority, nor does it show any signs of doing so.

Carter, whose hostility toward Israel is well-known, tried to visit Israel as well as the Palestinian territories during his visit, but was snubbed by both President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Based on Carter's comments, it isn't hard to understand why.

http://thefullcourt.blogspot.com/2007/01/jimmy-carter-accepts-millions-from-arab.htm

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/Dershowitz-Carter-Abe-Foxman-Israel/2015/01/14/id/618557/

Dershowitz: 'Jimmy Carter Has the Blood of Thousands on His Hands'

Wednesday, 14 Jan 2015 12:23 PM

By Melissa Clyne

  

• President Jimmy Carter is the reason Israel and the Palestinians are still at war and nobody should listen to anything Carter has to say about the Middle East, according to Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who appeared Wednesday on "America’s Forum" on NewsmaxTV with Anti-Defamation League President Abe Foxman.

The men weighed in on Carter’s recent suggestion that the International Criminal Court in The Hague should investigate both Israel and Hamas for possible war crimes.

http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2013/04/jimmy-carter-good-old-fashioned-anti.htmlWednesday, April 10, 2013

Jimmy Carter, a good old-fashioned anti-Semite

I'm sure you'll all be shocked to hear that evidence has emerged that the man to be honored by Yeshiva University's Cardozo law school later on Wednesday is a good, old-fashioned anti-Semite.

In a series of sermons Carter recorded between 1999 and 2003 that were published as a CD set by Simon and Schuster called “Sunday Mornings in Plains,” Carter attacks modern Israel by retreading ancient anti-Semitic tropes that go back to the early church fathers and the Judaism/Christianity schism that gave birth to a millennia of Christian persecution of Jews.

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Here are salient examples.

1. Jews hate and feel superior to non-Jews: In the tapes, one hears -- in Southern drawl -- his ancient animus: Jews hate non-Jews:

“…this morning I’m gonna be trying to relate the assigned Bible lesson to us in the Uniformed Series with how that affected Israel and how it affects us through Christ personally… It’s hard for us to even visualize the prejudice against gentiles when Christ came on earth. If a Jew married a gentile, that person was considered to be dead. … How would you characterize from a Jew’s point of view the uncircumcised? Non believer? And what? Unclean, what? They called them DOGS! That’s true. … What was Paul’s feeling toward gentiles in his early life as a Jewish leader? [Paul was not a Jewish leader. Ed.] Anybody? Absolute commitment to persecution! To the imprisonment and even the execution of non-Jews who now professed faith in Jesus Christ. … We know the differences in the Middle East. But the differences there are between Jews on the one hand who comprise the dominating force both militarily and also politically and the Palestinians who are both Muslim and Christians. …”

2. Jewish ritual sacrifice is a dodge that relieves one from taking care of one’s parents, while preserving one’s wealth:

“Corban was a uh prayer that could be performed by usually a man in an endorsed ceremony by the Pharisees that you could say in effect, ‘God, everything that I own all these sheep all these goats this nice house and the money that I have, I dedicate to you, to God.’ And from then on according to the Pharisees law those riches didn’t belong to that person anymore. They were whose? God’s! So as long as those riches were belonged to the person, that person was supposed to share them with needy parents right? But once it was God’s it wasn’t theirs and they didn’t have anything to share with their parents. So with impunity, and approved by the Pharisaic law, they could avoid taking care of their needy parents by a trick that had been evolved by the incorrect and improper interpretation of the law primarily designed by religious leaders to benefit whom? The rich folks! The powerful people! Because the poor man wouldn’t have all of this stuff to give to God. He would probably, in fact he might very well have his parents in the house with him or still be living with his own parents.”

3. Carter ties this Jewish feelings of superiority and religious malevolence to current Israeli policy:

“One reason is that the Israeli government headed now by Netanyahu has to depend on the ultra-right or fundamentalist Jews to give them a majority in the parliament which they call the Knesset, and the recent resignation of foreign minister Levy has left Netanyahu with only one vote margin in the parliament. So the ultra-conservative Jewish leaders demand always that they have total control over anything that relates to religion inside Israel, in particular in Jerusalem. Well, I’m not here to condemn anyone but to point out that even within ourselves, there is an inclination for, I’d say, a feeling of superiority. Wouldn’t you think so? Would you agree? I know I have it.”

[More on that here. CiJ] Carter’s beef with the Jews is not simply a disagreement over how Israel should treat the Palestinians. His is a deep theological hatred of the type that most Christians (including the Vatican in the 1960s Nostra Aetate) have long disavowed. This is not the “new anti-Semitism: it’s the old. All the more indefensible for an orthodox Jewish religious institution to give this man an award.

He finally slipped up and let his anti-Semitic slip show Why Jimmy Carter Really is an Anti-Semite By Dr. Richard Benkin -- Bio and Archives  June 15, 2009  Comments| Print friendly | Subscribe | Email Us | For years, many people have accused former US President of being an anti-Semite, but Carter and his minions have insisted that such accusations amount to calumny and that he is simply a moral man who speaks for the oppressed Palestinians.  This week, however, he finally slipped up and let his anti-Semitic slip show. A day after Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s June 14 speech on the Middle East conflict, Carter told the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the Israeli Knesset (or Parliament), “In my opinion, Netanyahu brought up several obstacles to peace in his speech that others before him have not placed.  He insists on settlement expansion and demands that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state, even though 20% of Israel’s citizens are not Jewish.” Israel’s right to exist is an obstacle to peace So, in Jimmy Carter’s world, Israel’s daring to insist that it be recognized as the Jewish homeland—only the very reason why it exists and the historical basis for it—cannot be allowed.  It is the obstacle to peace, not the Arabs’ refusal to accept it. Carter’s rationale for thinking that, however, is really the smoking gun of his anti-Semitism; specifically, that Jews make up less than 100 percent of Israel’s population.  Funny, though, he applies this argument to the world’s only Jewish state, and never has done the same to any other country.  Mr. Carter seems to consider himself rather knowledgeable in world affairs.  If he is, then his omission is one based on bias rather than ignorance.  There are 27 countries where Islam is the official state religion, including Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, which border Israel.  The 24 others are:  Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei, Comoros, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Somalia, Somaliland, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.  Several of them, such as Bangladesh, have sizeable non-Muslim minorities; and many with almost none, such as Pakistan, destroyed its non-Muslim minority even while Carter was its ally! To be comprehensive, 12 countries (plus England, Scotland, and 17 Swiss Cantons) recognize Christianity as their state religion, and Buddhism is the official state religion in three.  Carter has never made a peep about any of the 42 countries with an official state religion.  He certainly never complained to his Saudi allies or the Jordanians because they prohibit Jews from residing in their countries. Yet, Carter has seen fit to call Israel’s desire to be recognized as the historical Jewish homeland it is as “an obstacle to peace.”  This despite the fact Israel allows free practice of all religions, unlike most of the 27 Islamic nations including Saudi Arabia which makes any religious expression other than Islam a crime. Doubtless, the man from Plains will protest that he is being attacked for criticizing Israel (another favorite cry of anti-Semites).  Before he does, however, he might consider that the only way he will have any credibility is to simultaneously call Saudi Arabia’s and the other 26 countries to drop Islam as their official religion.  Let’s not hold our breath, for neither Carter nor any of the other world leaders who call a Jewish State an obstacle to peace ever thought to treat Judaism and Islam equally