Carter's Cash

National Review has a great article up about Jimmy Carter's anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian terrorist book, and the question's the it raises about where Carter gets his funding.

The Question of Carter’s Cash
In which our reporter follows the money

CLAUDIA ROSETT

Did Jimmy Carter do it for the money? That’s the question making the rounds about Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, an anti-Israeli screed recently written by the ex-president whose Carter Center has accepted millions in Arab funding.

Even in Carter’s long history of post-presidential grandstanding, this book sets fresh standards of irresponsibility. Purporting to give a balanced view of the Palestinian–Israeli conflict, Carter effectively shrugs off such highly germane matters as Palestinian terrorism. The hypocrisies are boundless, and include adoring praise of the deeply oppressive, religiously intolerant Saudi regime side by side with condemnations of democratic Israel. In one section, typical of the book’s entire approach, Carter includes a “Historical Chronology,” from Biblical times to 2006, in which he dwells on events surrounding his 1978 Camp David Accords but omits the Holocaust. Kenneth W. Stein, the founder of the Carter Center’s Middle East program, resigned last month to protest the book, describing it in a letter to Fox News as “replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments.” As this article goes to press, more protest resignations, this time from the Carter Center’s board of councilors, appear to be in the works.

If there is a silver lining to any of this, it is that Carter’s book has drawn much-overdue attention to some of the funding that pours into the Carter Center, whose intriguing donor list includes anti-Israeli tycoons and Middle East states. Founded in 1982 and appended to Carter’s presidential library, the center has served for almost a quarter century as the main base and fund-raising magnet for Carter’s self-proclaimed mission to save the world.

In recent weeks, a number of articles have noted that Carter’s anti-Israeli views coincide with those of some of the center’s prime financial backers, including the government of Saudi Arabia and the foundation of Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, whose offer of $10 million to New York City just after Sept. 11 was rejected by then-mayor Rudy Giuliani because it came wrapped in the suggestion that America rethink its support of Israel. Other big donors listed in the Carter Center’s annual reports include the Sultanate of Oman and the sultan himself; the government of the United Arab Emirates; and a brother of Osama bin Laden, Bakr BinLadin, “for the Saudi BinLadin Group.” Of lesser heft, but still large, are contributions from assorted development funds of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, as well as of OPEC, whose membership includes oil-rich Arab states, Nigeria (whose government is also a big donor to the Carter Center), and Venezuela (whose anti-American strongman Hugo Chávez benefited in a 2004 election from the highly controversial monitoring efforts of the Carter Center).

Read the rest.

Jimmy Carter - The Anti-Semite

You know, when Jimmy Carter constantly defends Palestinian terrorists as an oppressed people and calls the Israelis terrorists for whatever they do, I didn't want to label him an anti-Semite. I thought that may be a case of an idiot liberal who honestly thought that Palestinians were the victim, because he was to ignorant to understand the situation.

When Jimmy Carter asked the US Justice Department to "show special consideration" toward a man who was "proven to have murdered Jews in the Mauthausen death camp in Austria," I didn't think that was enough to call him an anti-Semite either. It could just be another case of a bleeding-heart liberal feeling the need to protect all the scum on the earth. Tooky-syndrome, if you will.

But when the evidence keeps piling up, it makes you wonder if the former president doesn't have some - at least deep-seeded - hatred for the Jewish people. In this video clip, Carter refers to the Holocaust as the "so-called Holocaust":



Once again, on it's own, I wouldn't say this new evidence is enough to label Carter an anti-Semite; it could just be a case of a liberal slipping into PC speech that he felt may offend Muslims, such as Ahmadinejad. But when you look at the big picture, it's hard to rule out the fact that Jimmy Carter may very well hate Jews.

*** Update - 7:30 pm ***

It just occurred to me that in regard to Carter's defense of Palestine, the fact that he absolutely refuses to debate anyone on the subject shows that he doesn't feel his arguments can stand up to scrutiny and therefore you could easily argue that his defense of those barbaric terrorists is malicious, and not just ignorant.

And finally - that last piece of evidence that Carter is anti-Semitic:

German critics and historians have lambasted Guenter Grass, saying the Nobel prize-winning author "lost his standing as a moral authority" after revealing that he once belonged to Hitler's Waffen SS.

Isn't Jimmy Carter a Nobel prize winner as well? (and yes, that last "evidence" is a Michael Moore-style, Bush-is-connected-to-Osama argument, meant as a joke.)

Dershowitz to Rebut Carter In Event

Dhimmi Carter still refuses to debate anyone about his book (I suppose that the arguments in the book are just too airtight to subject them to ridiculous, Zionist criticisms), but without debating, we get the next-best thing:

WASHINGTON — Former President Jimmy Carter won't go unchallenged after his appearance next week at Brandeis University, where he is lecturing on his latest book about what he terms the Palestinian apartheid by Israel.

Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz will step on stage afterward to rebut the former president's remarks despite having been booted from an earlier booking to debate Carter on his assertions.

“I think the inaccuracies of Carter’s points have to be pointed out. Carter said he wrote the book in order to stimulate a debate, but he won’t debate. I’m debating him whether he’s there or not,” Dershowitz told FOXNews.com.

“If his chair is empty, then that’s his decision,” he said.

Dershowitz joins a growing pool of critics, including a longtime Carter aide, Jewish groups and academics who allege inaccuracies and distorted history in Carter's best-selling book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” The book has sold about 70,000 copies.

Carter recently accepted an invitation to speak on Tuesday at the nonsectarian Jewish-sponsored college near Boston after having cancelled an earlier invitation. He will talk for about 15 minutes and then take questions from the audience for 45 minutes.

Let's hope Carter doesn't back out of this one too. It's shocking to me that there's anyone who can't see through Carter's shallow arguments - especially when even he knows he's wrong and can't defend his insane position.