Jimmy Carter says Netanyahu has turned his back on peace

At his press conference today at the Carter Center, President Jimmy Carter announced he is being treated for cancer in his brain and he will accept whatever comes in months or years ahead (years, let’s hope!). He was asked about his top priorities “in the time that you have left,” the problems whose resolution would give him “the greatest satisfaction for the world.” [Minute 35 below]

In international affairs, I would say that peace for Israel and its neighbors has been a top priority of my foreign policy projects for the past thirty years. Right now I think the prospects are more dismal than any time I can remember in the last 50 years. There’s practically– the whole process is practically dormant. The government of Israel has no desire for a two-state solution, which is the policy of all the other nations in the world. And the United States has practically no influence compared to past years in either Israel or Palestine. So I feel very discouraged about it, but that would be my number one foreign policy hope.

Chris Matthews later said that Carter “stuck it to Netanyahu” in the press conference. While Jonathan Allen of Vox said on Hardball just now that the one thing he faulted in Carter’s post-presidency was his statements about Israel. This is what we mean by the Israel lobby: people for whom support for Israel masters all judgments. Carter warned in 2006 that Israel was facing an apartheid future. For this he was pummeled by leading journalists and exiled by the Democratic Party. Some day there will be an accounting of the American blindness.

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Notice that all other ex-Presidents are silent on this — or unhelpful. I once thought Clinton could be better, could join Carter, but Mme Clinton had political ambitions, first Senate and now President, and that put Mr. Clinton in a box from which — had he wished to — he could not easily escape.

The Big Money that financed the establishment of Israel never intended it to be a safe haven for Jews. They intended it to be perpetual source of conflict and weapons profits, which is exactly what it has always been.
“War Profiteers and the Roots of the War on Terror”.

Jimmy Carter made a valiant effort, but he was deceived by criminals.

I wish President Carter the best with his struggle with cancer. I hope he has a long time along with good health to be with and enjoy his family.

His legacy unfortunately will be that he was one of the worst Presidents. Any time there is a terrible President it is terrible for the country.

Because of his book Palestine: Peace not Apartheid he will be remembered as an anti-Semite.

Hopefully relations between Egypt and Israel will continue to improve. Israelis will continue to live in peace despite of Carter’s attempts at meddling. This is because of Israel’s unilateral actions. If the PA wants a deal they better make the concessions required by Israel. Israelis care less and less about a deal and that means the PA will have to cough up more to get a deal.

@Steve Grover: “Because of his book Palestine: Peace not Apartheid he will be remembered as an anti-Semite.”

Could you explain specifically what it was that President Carter wrote that earns him the label “anti-Semite”?

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seems like Egypt didn’t get on well with Israel until America
jumped in and bullyed and bribed
now Egypt is Israels bitch
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G-d Bless
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