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Jimmy Carter’s Jewish Problem - “If I get back in, I’m going to [expletive] the Jews.”
.jewishpress ^ | Wednesday, November 22, 2006 | Jason Maoz

Posted on 01/30/2007 11:07:30 AM PST by dennisw

Jimmy Carter’s Jewish Problem

For those with eyes to see, there were hints as far back as the 1976 presidential campaign of the trouble to come. Early that year, Harper’s magazine published “Jimmy Carter’s Pathetic Lies,” a devastating exposé of Carter’s record in Georgia by a then little-known journalist named Steven Brill.

Reg Murphy, who as editor of the Atlanta Constitution had kept a close eye on Carter’s rise in state politics, declared, “Jimmy Carter is one of the three or four phoniest men I ever met.”

Speechwriter Bob Shrum quit the Carter campaign after just a few weeks, disgusted with what he described as Carter’s penchant for fudging the truth. He also related that Carter, convinced the Jewish vote in the Democratic primaries would go to Senator Henry (“Scoop”) Jackson, had instructed his staff not to issue any more statements on the Middle East.

“Jackson has all the Jews anyway,” Shrum quoted Carter as saying. “We get the Christians.”

Relations between Carter and Israel were tense from the outset of the Carter presidency. Carter’s hostility was evident to Israeli foreign minister Moshe Dayan, who in his memoir Breakthrough described a July 1977 White House meeting between Carter and Israeli officials. “You are more stubborn than the Arabs, and you put obstacles on the path to peace,’’ an angry Carter scolded Dayan and his colleagues.

“Our talk,” Dayan wrote, “lasted more than an hour and was most unpleasant. President Carter ... launched charge after charge against Israel.”

On October 1, 1977, the U.S. and the Soviet Union unexpectedly issued a joint statement on the Middle East calling for an Arab-Israeli peace conference in Geneva, with the participation of Palestinian representatives. The communiqué marked the first time the U.S. officially employed the phrase “legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.”

Reaction in the U.S. was immediate and furious. “[A] political firestorm erupted,” wrote historian Steven Spiegel. “After American officials had worked successfully for years to reduce Russian influence over the Mideast peace process and in the area as whole, critics could not understand why the administration had suddenly invited Moscow to return.”

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who five years earlier had expelled thousands of Soviet military advisers from Egypt, neither liked nor trusted the Russians, and decided to kill the U.S.-Soviet initiative in the womb. His decision to go to Jerusalem to address the Knesset electrified the world and caught the Carter administration completely off guard.

Eventually the U.S. would broker what became known as the Camp David Accords and oversee the signing of the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. But Carter was far from a dispassionate third party. His disdain for Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and near hero-worship of Sadat were clearly reflected in his demeanor and has informed nearly everything he’s written on the Middle East since leaving office.

In The Unfinished Presidency, his book about Carter’s post-White House activities, the liberal historian Douglas Brinkley provides a detailed account of the former president’s obsession with helping Palestinian terror chief Yasir Arafat polish his image. Carter, according to Brinkley, regularly advised Arafat on how to shape his message for Western journalists and even wrote some speeches for him.

Carter was also a vocal critic of Israeli policies and “view[ed] the unarmed young Palestinians who stood up against thousands of Israel soldiers as ‘instant heroes,’ ” wrote Brinkley. “Buoyed by the intifada, Carter passed on to the Palestinians, through Arafat, his congratulations.”

Former New York mayor Ed Koch, in his 1984 bestseller Mayor, recounted a conversation he had shortly before the 1980 election with Cyrus Vance, who’d recently resigned as Carter’s secretary of state. Koch told Vance that many Jews would not be voting for Carter because they feared “that if he is reelected he will sell them out.”

“Vance,” recalled Koch, “nodded and said, ‘He will.’ ”

In Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship, Andrew and Leslie Cockburn revealed that during a March 1980 meeting with his senior political advisers, Carter, discussing his fading reelection prospects and his sinking approval rating in the Jewish community, snapped, “If I get back in, I’m going to [expletive] the Jews.”

Carter – such was the country’s good fortune – did not get back in. But as evidenced by his years of pro-Palestinian advocacy, reams of anti-Israel op-ed articles, and the release last week of his latest book/screed, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, he’s been trying to [expletive] the Jews ever since.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carter; carterandjews; carterlies; jewsundermybed; jimmycarter; killerrabits; malaise; mrpeanut; peanutbrain; worstexpresident
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To: monkapotamus

OMG Jimmy Carter have nasty flashback ROFL


41 posted on 01/30/2007 12:55:35 PM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: dennisw

Carter is an idiot. He's a disgrace.


42 posted on 01/30/2007 1:35:34 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: SevenofNine
I wonder what he think of Reagan personally that be nice thing to read ROFL

I sorta have an answer to that question. Somewhere during Reagan's second term, Jimmy and Rosalyn were having dinner in NYC at a table next to a friend of mine. Friend reports that he heard Rosalyn say, "Oh, that Reagan! He has all the luck. Every time he gets in trouble he gets shot or winds up with cancer or something and everybody feels sorry for him and he gets away with it."

43 posted on 01/30/2007 2:24:21 PM PST by Cincinnatus
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To: twonie

When Bob Shrum quits on you, you ain't much.




LOL, truer words were never spoken.


44 posted on 01/30/2007 3:46:29 PM PST by IOWAfan (Go Bears!)
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To: dennisw
In Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship, Andrew and Leslie Cockburn revealed that during a March 1980 meeting with his senior political advisers, Carter, discussing his fading reelection prospects and his sinking approval rating in the Jewish community, snapped, “If I get back in, I’m going to [expletive] the Jews.”

The Cockburns also said that the contras, and possibly the CIA, were selling drugs in the US. Were they right about that? Or could they have been wrong about this unsourced quote attributed to Carter as well?

45 posted on 01/30/2007 3:48:28 PM PST by x
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To: dennisw
Election surprise: Jews vote for Marxist Dimocrats, again. (Even after Jimmy Carter hates them and favors Arabs and other socialist and Marxists.) sarcasm still on.
46 posted on 01/30/2007 3:49:00 PM PST by RetiredArmy (Marxis-Dimocrats stand for everything I hate and wish to see destroyed, including them!)
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To: dennisw

BTTT


47 posted on 01/30/2007 4:18:01 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there)
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To: Cincinnatus

CINCY what upzzz

HEY BTW I think you hit on the head Jimmy Carter is bitter old man down the street yelling at neighorhood kids while Ronnie is loveable grandpa


48 posted on 01/30/2007 5:16:58 PM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: TheSpottedOwl
I suggest Risperdal and thorazine to help Jimmah. That and a straitjacket.

He's blind already. Gag him.

49 posted on 01/31/2007 5:43:27 AM PST by Loud Mime ("She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon." - Groucho Marx)
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To: Parmenio
Carter was without question, the worst president in US history.

We get the Christians.”

Some of us were responsible, not me.
50 posted on 01/31/2007 9:50:29 AM PST by Delphinium
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To: Delphinium

I made the mistake of voting for him once -- in 1976. I have not voted Democrat since.


51 posted on 01/31/2007 10:07:21 AM PST by Parmenio
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To: Parmenio
I don't think I voted that time. I was only 22, and having my second baby right at that time.

I did pay attention though, and remember not liking Ford much.
52 posted on 01/31/2007 10:50:54 AM PST by Delphinium
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To: dennisw


53 posted on 02/02/2007 12:42:11 PM PST by Grampa Dave (GW has more Honor and Integrity in his little finger than ALL of the losers on the "hate Bush" band)
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To: Grampa Dave

Dhimmi Carter gave Iran to the Muslim crazies, fanatics. Same ones are killing US military in Iraq by giving advanced EIDs to Shiite militias and Sunni terrorists. The Shiite Iranians help both sides


54 posted on 02/02/2007 1:43:55 PM PST by dennisw (What one man can do another can do -- "The Edge")
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To: dennisw

Hopefully, one of these days we will find out who has bought and paid for Jimmy Carter for decades.

He is the poster boy of the Hate America/Israel thugs.


55 posted on 02/02/2007 3:29:21 PM PST by Grampa Dave (GW has more Honor and Integrity in his little finger than ALL of the losers on the "hate Bush" band)
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