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Personally I suspect Carter used the loaded term "apartheid" in his title just to stir up controversy and get hinself noticed again so that he might pretend to be relevent, well that and that he has always been something of a sanctimonious jerk, but I'm not sure it's fair to pronounce him an anti-semite. His interpretation of his Christian beliefs takes on a distinctly liberal flavor that is more in tune with those liberal Christian congregations outside of the Bible Belt, than with his fellow Southern Baptists who generally take a much more judeophilic view of things. These various jewish groups might do better to ignore him or at least moderate their criticism of him as their attempt to assasinate his character by portraying him as a hateful anti-semite might backfire on them by making them look a little hysterical. Why put him back in the limelight, ignore him and let him go back to building houses for Habitat for Humanity, or whatever it was he was into before he used this book tour to make himself part of the public discourse on mideast policy again.

Israeli Moon Purchases Denounced
Jan. 12, 2007

Last December over one thousand Israelis purchased land on the moon. The price of each one-eighth-acre plot of land is about $60. Each buyer gets an ownership certificate and a photographed map of the purchased area. So far some 55.5 million acres of land on the moon have been sold to people all over the world.

Daniel Yaron, CEO of Crazyshop, the company which markets moon property in Israel, said that the typical rationale for such a purchase is as a “gag gift.” “It makes for an unusual gift for those ‘hard-to-buy-for’ friends and relatives,” Yaron explained.

Yaron’s explanation was denounced as “Zionist lies” by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “People laughed when I tried to warn of the Jews’ plan for world domination,” Ahmadinejad said. “I hope this news awakens them to the encroaching dangers Jews present to our world. Not only are they plotting to dominate the Earth, but they’ve set their eyes on other planets, as well. They must be wiped off the face of the Earth before they succeed in their evil plan.”

In Pakistan, rioting and looting broke out in Lahore, as angry mobs shouted “death to the Jews.” Ameer ul-Azeem, spokesman for the Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal, an Islamist movement the country declared the purchases “offensive to Muslims.” “Jews know very well that the moon has great significance to Muslims,” ul-Azeem complained. “The moon is on our flag and the flags of many brother Muslim lands. Land on the moon is Muslim land. The Jews are deliberately insulting us—it’s like they are rubbing pork in our wounds.”

Former president Jimmy Carter declared that this latest revelation validates everything he said in his book (“Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”) about the Jewish quest for world hegemony. “The Jewish lust for land is greater than I thought,” Carter claimed. “When I wrote about the Israeli apartheid regime I thought it applied only in Palestine, but apparently, the Jews intend to extend their hegemony to the moon.”

Carter insisted that more personal diplomacy is needed to calm the region. “I’ve seen photos of President Bush holding hands with Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Abdullah,” Carter said. “This is a good start, but he must go further. I kissed Arafat. Bush needs to do at least as much. In today’s more intense relationship he may need to be even more receptive to input from the heads of state in the region and be ready to go all the way for the sake of peace. I know that’s what I would do if I were the president.”

In related news, 14 more academics resigned from the “Carter Center” in response to his book, calling it the “malicious babblings of a senile nincompoop.” Carter shrugged off the criticism. “Every one of them is a Jew,” Carter asserted. “Need I say more? The evidence of a Zionist conspiracy couldn’t be clearer. Ahmadinejad doesn’t sound so crazy now, I bet?”

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President Carter isn't smart enough to come up with this strategy. He is angling for some kind of relevance and having a tough time. Throwing Israel beneath the bus seems to trouble him not at all.

As far as the antisemitism the problem for Jews and Israel is they are hated not for being failures but for being successes. This means envy will be the dominant emotion. Envy has one characteristic (at least in Christian Societies) that is noteworthy--it pleads for the destruction of the envied object.

Envy has always been considered the second deadly sin for its destructiveness and its lack of a "normal" referent. Antisemitism here in the US, then, begins as a spiritual defect before it becomes institutionalized in belief and law.

Always difficult to come to terms with but quite necessary to do so. A good reference is "The Parson's Tale" in Chaucer.