[SJackson]

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Jimmy Carter, on Israel and the Jews

1979: "I have never met an Arab leader that in private professed a desire for an independent Palestinian state. Publicly, they all espouse an independent Palestinian state -- almost all of them -- because that is what they committed themselves to do at Rabat (the 1974 Arab League summit conference)."
--President Jimmy Carter
a 1979 press conference

Early 1980: …at a March 1980 meeting with his senior political advisers, angrily snapped, "If I get back in, I`m going to f--- the Jews."
Jimmy Carter, March 1980

Late 1980: Cyrus Vance…confirmed to then-New York mayor Ed Koch that Carter, if reelected, would "sell out" the Jews
Jimmy Carter shortly before the 1980 election

2003: …had I been elected to a second term, with the prestige and authority and influence and reputation I had in the region, we could have moved to a final solution
Jimmy Carter, 12-1-2003

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Israel exists; it has a right to exist in peace behind secure and defensible borders; and it has a right to demand of its neighbors that they recognize those facts. I have personally followed and supported Israel's heroic struggle for survival, ever since the founding of the State of Israel 34 years ago. In the pre-1967 borders Israel was barely 10 miles wide at its narrowest point. The bulk of Israel's population lived within artillery range of hostile Arab armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again.

Ronald Reagan

"We take the world like you find it; and Israel is a small state with a small population. It's a democracy and it exists in a neighborhood that in many - over a period of time has opined from time to time that they'd prefer it not be there and they'd like it to be put in the sea. And Israel has opined that it would prefer not to get put in the sea, and as a result, over a period of decades, it has arranged itself so it hasn't been put in the sea."

Donald Rumsfeld

[veronica]

The peanut farmer clearly hates Jews. Thank God he was denied a 2nd term.

[Fiddlstix]

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Where did you get your quotes from? Did he really use the term, "final solution"? That smacks of Hitler, doesn't it? Isn't that just pure evil?

[ScaniaBoy]

This is not nice, it is truly mischievous to contrast such a small mind as Carter's with two such great persons.

ScaniaBoy


PS: I am just reading the "what if history" by Andrew Roberts and 11 other eminent historians (What Might Have Been, Weidenfeld & Nicolsons 2004 - highly recommended). It is something to ponder - what if Reagan had been persuaded not to run in 1980 and Carter had been reelected.... (shudder!)

[Happy2BMe]

"And Israel has opined that it would prefer not to get put in the sea, and as a result, over a period of decades, it has arranged itself so it hasn't been put in the sea."

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Much to the dismay of Islam.