Posted on 12/05/2006 5:19:10 AM PST by SJackson
I figured this statement was "current" Carter, and that the kicker would be that he wanted the Palestinians to be given all Israeli land, ASAP.
I cringe whenever I read or hear "American Statesman" in the same sentence with Carter. He is a total embarrassment. Too bad Billy isn't around still to show him how to be a real American.
"Note the date of his remarks--"
I did, and that's my point.
Will Jimmy Carter's State become a possession of Iran? The answer is in the way he and his people want to deal with Islamist expansionism overseas.
It is clear that the Palestinians seek nothing less than the complete annihilation of the state of Israel and everyone who lives in it. Arabs turn a blind eye to the historical fact that Jews occupied Israel (I won't dignify it by calling it Palestine) for thousands of years before Mohammed happened on the scene.
I just finished reading the biography of Queen Noor (Lisa Halaby)-"Leap of Faith". The book is pretty interesting and she doesn't shy away from politics--taking the Palestinian side, of course. Unfortunately, she totally ignores the history of Israel before Mohammed. It's pretty amazing.
To her credit, however, she did not like or trust Arafat because too often Arafat played King Hussein for a fool.
The turning point for Mr Carter is (1)his ego, (2)an absence of a final peace between Israel and her immediate neighbors, (3)the fact that his own beliefs in the myths of land-for-peace have failed, and he knows it, and (4)his age, which is diminishing the time for him to complete his ego-satisfying sense of his "legacy".
In other words, the "turning point" for Carter is that time is running out, for him, and it is more convenient to blame others than to acknowledge the mistaken myths which contributed to his own failures.
Carter is very much like many Middle Eastern Arabs (not all). He creates myths in his own mind and no ongoing evidence to the contrary can shake the myths that now form a prism through which all events must be filtered. It is a convenient way of (1) denying reality and (2)denying your own guilt.
I haven't figured it out either. The Pali scum gets away with murder, day in and day out.
Everything you say about Carter, especially the "turning
poimt" assessment, will hold true for Clinton in another 20 years: Clinton has, in fact, already been working on his legacy, concurrently w/ Carter working on his. And NO ONE should dare cause Clinton to break stride or impede the flow of The Legacy Project, as Chris Wallace found out some weeks ago.
>> It makes even more sense now, with Jordan and Israel being on good terms.
-Eric<<
If only Jordan wanted the Palestinians - no Arab country seems to actually help them that much except when its politically beneficial.
If only Jordan wanted the Palestinians - no Arab country seems to actually help them that much except when its politically beneficial.It would be easier if Jordan was willing to accept sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza. At this point, I suspect Israel would give it to them.
Reagan was ahead of his time, again.
-Eric
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