Carter says terrorism against Israel is acceptable

(Snip)"Since Carter’s book hit the stands, controversy has swirled around the former president. In a recent Washington Post op-ed piece, Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, the world’s foremost authority on narco-terrorism and author of Funding Evil, cites significant contributions from Arab sources to Carter business ventures as well as The Carter Center. Fourteen members of The Carter Center's Board of Councilors in Atlanta, Ga., have resigned in protest of what they deem a distortion of the facts.

Carter seems to be deepening his position by saying on an Al Jazeera television interview on Jan. 14 that he “doesn’t equate Palestinian missiles with terrorism.” Palestinians have fired hundreds of rockets into Israel since the so-called cease fire declared several months ago, injuring Jewish civilians and causing damage to industrial areas in Ashkelon. Mr. Carter has clearly demonstrated that he has no sympathy for Israel’s victims of terror.

The most dangerous statement in Mr. Carter’s book appears on page 213: “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.” President Carter has repeatedly stated that everything in the book is accurate, so he must be writing what he believes.
What Mr. Carter is saying is that terrorism against Israel is acceptable unless and until Israel does everything outlined in the Roadmap for Peace! Mr. Carter apparently does not recognize that terrorism is barbaric and is not acceptable in a civilized world. Carter’s twisting of facts and history are dangerous, and Christians must be vigilant in encouraging others to speak out.

The Carter Center website states that “peace with justice requires resolving conflict according to rules agreed to by all, beginning with the shared commitment to human rights and democratic values.”

Cox believes that Jimmy Carter has deviated drastically from his own stated goals. “The Palestinians have consistently broken their agreements over the past ten years with the Oslo Accords and cease fires and reiterated their desire to destroy Israel. Where is Carter on this issue of ‘peace with justice?’ Does it only apply to Palestinians? What about the democratic state of Israel?”

Jimmy Carter states that Christian fundamentalist view their opponents as "sub-human"

SPIEGEL: One main points of your book is the rather strange coalition between Christian fundamentalists and the Republican Party. How can such a coalition of the pious lead to moral catastrophes like the Iraqi prison scandal in Abu Ghraib and torture in Guantanamo?

Carter: The fundamentalists believe they have a unique relationship with God, and that they and their ideas are God's ideas and God's premises on the particular issue. Therefore, by definition since they are speaking for God anyone who disagrees with them is inherently wrong. And the next step is: Those who disagree with them are inherently inferior, and in extreme cases -- as is the case with some fundamentalists around the world -- it makes your opponents sub-humans, so that their lives are not significant. Another thing is that a fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality. And so this administration, for instance, has a policy of just refusing to talk to someone who is in strong disagreement with them -- which is also a radical departure from past history. So these are the kinds of things that cause me concern. And, of course, fundamentalists don't believe they can make mistakes, so when we permit the torture of prisoners in Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib, it's just impossible for a fundamentalist to admit that a mistake was made.

14 Carter Center Board members resign, including former ambassador

Fourteen members of an advisory board to Jimmy Carter's human rights organization resigned on Thursday to protest his new book in which he vitriolically attacks Israel and plagiarizes the work of other writers.

"The resignation of these Carter Center advisers come with the note that they believe in his book, "Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid," Carter has voiced support for terrorist violence against Israel in order to change Israeli policy. The advisers also say Carter has emboldened the anti-Semitism of white supremacist groups." (John Gibson)



The release of the book also prompted Emory University Professor Ken Stein to resign from his position as a fellow at the Carter Center.

In his resignation letter, Mr. Stein wrote: "President Carter's book on the Middle East, a title too inflammatory to even print, is not based on unvarnished analysis; it is replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments."




In other Jimmy Carter news, he has chosen himself and serial adulterer Bill Clinton to lead a new liberal "baptist" movement.

Jimmy Carter accepts MILLIONS from Arab Financiers

Recent disclosures prove that it is Carter who has been bought and paid for by anti-Israel Arab and Islamic money.
Journalist Jacob Laksin has documented the tens of millions of dollars that the Carter Center has accepted from Saudi Arabian royalty and assorted other Middle Eastern sultans, who, in return, Carter dutifully praised as peaceful and tolerant (no matter how despotic the regime). And these are only the confirmed, public donations.

Carter has also accepted half a million dollars and an award from Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, saying in 2001: "This award has special significance for me because it is named for my personal friend, Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan." This is the same Zayed, the long-time ruler of the United Arab Emirates, whose $2.5 million gift to the Harvard Divinity School was returned in 2004 due to Zayed's rampant Jew-hatred. Zayed's personal foundation, the Zayed Center, claims that it was Zionists, rather than Nazis, who “were the people who killed the Jews in Europe” during the Holocaust. It has held lectures on the blood libel and conspiracy theories about Jews and America perpetrating Sept. 11.
Another journalist, Rachel Ehrenfeld, in a thorough and devastating article on "Carter’s Arab Financiers," meticulously catalogues Carter’s ties to Arab moneymen, from a Saudi bailout of his peanut farm in 1976, to funding for Carter’s presidential library, to continued support for all manner of Carter’s post-presidential activities. For instance, it was the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), founded in Pakistan and fronted by a Saudi billionaire, Gaith Pharaon, that helped Carter start up his beloved Carter Center. According to Ehrenfeld:

“BCCI's origins were primarily ideological. [Agha Hasan] Abedi wanted the bank to reflect the supra-national Muslim credo and ‘the best bridge to help the world of Islam, and the best way to fight the evil influence of the Zionists.’
As Ehrenfeld concluded:
“[I]t seems that AIPAC's real fault was its failure to outdo the Saudi's purchases of the former president's loyalty. There has not been any nation in the world that has been more cooperative than Saudi Arabia," The New York Times quoted Mr. Carter June 1977, thus making the Saudis a major factor in U. S. foreign policy.

”Evidently, the millions in Arab petrodollars feeding Mr. Carter's global endeavors, often in conflict with U.S. government policies, also ensure his loyalty.” Author: Alan DershowitzSource: The Family Security Matters Foundation, Inc.