Kenneth Stein Wakes Up To President Jimmy Carter

The recent controversy between Kenneth W. Stein and former President Jimmy Carter should come as no surprise. The main surprise is what took Stein so long in understanding Carter’s incredible bias against Israel.

Stein is former executive director of the Carter Center and who recently resigned from the institution. He has blasted what he called Jimmy Carter's "gross inventions, intentional falsehoods and irresponsible remarks."

The truth is former President Jimmy Carter has been and is a total disgrace to America and American policy in the Middle East. When Carter was President, the U.S. had inflation and interest rates in the low twenties.

His term as President was a travesty and America’s power throughout the world was at its lowest ebb.

So, it comes at no surprise that Kenneth Stein has finally become aware of Carter’s bias against Israel. If Jimmy Carter were still President, Israel would be emasculated just as the U.S. was helpless against Iran in the late seventies.

For years, every opportunity that Carter had to poke at Israel, he did. It has been so obvious that the former President was prejudiced, that Carter became a caricature of hate against Israel and many even wondered if Carter was an agent for Palestinians.

Not once did I ever read or hear Carter blast terrorists who reveled in trying to destroy Israel. While the Islamic Jihad, the Hezbollah, the former PLO, the Hamas, the al Qaeda continued in its efforts to destroy a state recognized by the United Nations, while Syria and Iran and other Arab nations have continued to fund weapons to kill innocent women and children, Carter continued to point his finger at the only true democracy in the region.

If these same organizations had used their resources for the benefit of the Palestinians and to work to ensure that Israel were safe from aggression then the Middle East would be so much further than it is today. But, with a former American President labeling the Palestinian situation as “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”, it is obvious the venom of Carter.

The only way there will be peace in the Middle East is for the Palestinians to get financial and economic assistance from those states and organizations that pledge Israel’s destruction. If any people have been treated as an outcast in that area of the world, it has been Israel. They are the true victims of apartheid. It is their enemies who believe they find a place closer to God by killing Jews, not the other way around. Israel has never intended or desired to destroy any nation which is just the opposite of its enemies in the Middle East.

Without question, the Palestinian people are loving individuals who should have their own state and who should share peaceful borders with Israel. The moderates in Israel and in Palestine should engage one another, do business, and make peace. But, Jimmy Carter has lost his credibility if he ever had any in the first place and it is truly a good sign that Kenneth Stein is searching for intellectual honesty. That he will not find in the mind and the soul of Jimmy Carter.

Without question, the Palestinian people are loving individuals...

One never ceases wondering which Palestinians these might be. There can't be any loving Palestinians extant.

But, Jimmy Carter has lost his credibility if he ever had any in the first place and it is truly a good sign that Kenneth Stein is searching for intellectual honesty. That he will not find in the mind and the soul of Jimmy Carter.

I think to be intellectually honest you would need to start by being intellectual. For the life of me I can't recall Carter ever uttering one smart thing.

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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I'm certainly no fan of Carter, but the statement that "When Carter was president, the U. S. had inflation and interest rates in the low twenties" is not quite accurate, at least in so far as the prime interest rate was concerned. It was bad enough though, with both inflation and prime interest rates into the double digits.

The term "misery index" was devised, which was the sum of inflation and interest rates. That "misery index" was what reached the low twenties during the Carter years, and was one factor amongst many which led to Carter's decisive defeat by Ronald Reagan in 1980.

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