An advance clip of an interview of Jimmy Carter by Andrea Mitchell, for Meet the Press tomorrow. Carter says that Obama doesn’t call him for advice. Why not?
“That’s a hard question for me to answer, you know, with complete candor,” Carter said in response to Mitchell’s question about why Carter’s other successors — Clinton, both Bushes, and even Reagan — called upon him, but not Obama.
“I think the problem was that — in dealing with the issue of peace in between Israel and Egypt — the Carter Center has taken a very strong and public position of equal treatment between the Palestinians and the Israelis. And I think this was a sensitive area in which the president didn’t want to be involved,” he added.
Here’s the full exchange, as reported by Joseph Wiesenthal.
Carter is considered so radioactive on this issue that he didn’t show up at the last Democratic convention, had to speak by video.
This reminds us of Howard Dean’s great mistake in 2003, when he said that the U.S. must be “evenhanded” in dealing with the conflict. He quickly changed course.
And it reminds us of Obama’s original sin, when he said in 2008 that Palestinians were suffering the most and had to correct himself:
“Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people.”
Obama later stated during a presidential debate that he had actually been indicting the Palestinian leadership for causing the Palestinians’ suffering.
“Carter is considered so radioactive on this issue that he didn’t show up at the last Democratic convention, had to speak by video.”
Lincoln was originally pro slavery and the anti position was radioactive but you have to seize the moment , don’t you? Perhaps it won’t be Obama who does but how is Zionism going to make it to 2040 ?
The world’s ‘super cop’ totally bought by a foreign fifth column’s money.
Not too long ago other countries and world leaders, anyone saying the Israel Lobby(ies) were running the US policy would be dismissed as Anti Semites.
Not any more—its a accepted fact.
Only question left is whether their grip on the USA ends with a bang or a whimper.
”America is still timid in the face of Israel”
For decades, Tel Aviv has been biting the hand that has been feeding it. It is time to stop feeding
Gulf News
Published: 16:34 March 21, 2014
Credit: AFP
”Israel’s Minister of Defence Moshe Yaalon America’s response to insulting rants by the Israeli occupation’s Defence Minister, Moshe Yaalon, was described by the Israeli media as “unprecedented” and “the harshest ever”. Yaalon had said in a public forum that the US was “weak” in the face of Russia and therefore prone to terrorism. An anonymous US official responded by saying that Yaalon was “jeopardising Israel’s relationship with the US”.
What was most astounding about America’s response was that it was made anonymously. An Israeli government minister from the prime minister’s party took to a university podium and insulted the US in broad daylight and all America could conjure up was an anonymous, timid criticism. US Secretary of State Kerry later complained that the statements were “not constructive”.
The Israelis have for decades been biting the hand that feeds them. It is time to stop feeding them. Israeli officials have no qualms about humiliating America time and again, knowing well that America will turn a blind eye. If there is a country that makes the US look weak, it is not Russia — it is Israel. How the Middle East policies of a global superpower the size of America can be held hostage by a tiny militaristic, supremacist regime thousands of kilometres away is beyond comprehension.
The “special relationship” between the US and the Israelis is an abnormal one. It violates the very essence of what Americans stand for: Freedom, equality and justice and it will haunt America for decades to come after peace and justice eventually prevail. And they will. Israel is fighting a losing battle, facing increasing isolation from the international community. And yet the US chooses to stand firm on this sinking ship.
Future generations will ask how America, in defiance of the international community and every moral code, stood by a rogue regime that subjugated an entire native population to its racist and exclusionist ideology. Do not forget South Africa.
The sooner the Americans realise this, the better for all — but perhaps it will be best for America’s conscience.”
Radioactive is such an interesting choice of word.
Carter is a truth teller on Israel/Palestine and they don’t like that. Israel is propped up by 0.1 percenter money and influence. Neither are particularly comfortable in the presence of truth.
And radioactivity works both ways with Zionism. The ideology is also toxic.
The French magazine Le Canard recently covered the topic of Fukushima
“like Dali’s soft sculptures, slow catastrophes have a certain beauty. 3 years after the tsunami, everything proceeds relentlessly . The melted reactors are still dangerous. They have to be cooled continuously. With water. Which becomes radioactive. It is collected and stored in massive reservoirs. There are now 1200. A new one is built
every 2 days. Sometimes water escapes. ”
Zionism is like that too. The great hasbara reactors have melted.
Carter has stimulated “valuable hatred,” or maybe, “valuable radioactivity” would place the phenomenon more in our time. Thanks for covering this tidbit. Note for evolving school of opinion: presidents who express support for Palestine or opposition to Israeli Apartheid get disinvited from the White House and their own party’s convention, which means our “establishment” practices thought control enabling oppression. The academics are in process of rejecting the establishment on this issue, and the progressives were heard booing the heavy-handed way that establishment railroaded pro-Israel planks over popular opposition at the 2012 convention. The momentum is bending toward justice at accelerating pace, and those still practicing oppression will soon be outed as history’s bad guys, in the Pantheon with the Confederates and the South Africans.
Sometimes I wonder why Obama bothers with all the subtle positioning. He does not have credibility with Zionists, because his initial “freeze settlements” policy, and with non-Zionists because he abandoned it. The his man Kerry obfuscated Israeli obstructionism and tolerated the ridiculous requirement “recognizing Israel as”, and continuing settlement expansions and murderous “policing”, and now relents, again, no credibility in either direction.
No wonder that Ya’alon is bad-mouthing him, and so does Mondoweiss. Will the next Democratic Presidential primary be a contest who is the wettest noodle of them all?