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[...] have written about this Here. Trust me: Carter hates Jews big time and his Jew-hatred is based on a perverse reading of the [...]

By: B Dubya

B Dubya — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:43:57 +0000

If many of you have allowed the memory of the administration of James Earl Carter to fade from your memory, be assured that I have not.
In 1976, I was a 25 year old 1st class petty officer serving on a nuclear powered FBM submarine, and I retain a perspective of that man that no Nobel prize will ever brighten.
Jimmy Carter is a small man. Mean of spirit and absolutely bankrupt in courage that a true leader must have. Much of what is happening in the ME today is a direct legacy of Carter’s treachery to our friends and of his complete surrender to Breshnev and the Soviet Bloc.
He ain’t my village elder. Sorry. He’s Georgia’s village idiot.

By: Ahad Ha'amoratzim

Ahad Ha'amoratzim — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:42:15 +0000

It is entirely possible that former President Carter does not pen scurrilous anti-Jewish screeds because the Saudis pay him, and that rather the Saudis pay him because they know that he is inclined to pen scurrilous anti-Jewish screeds. Perhaps the Jew-haters did not so much buy his loyalty as reward him for the loyalties that he held long before they came into the picture.

By: Stevens

Stevens — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:36:10 +0000

Dr. Chesler,
As we both know, anti-Semitism is hardly a new phenomenon in the world. What I’m wondering is whether modern anti-Semitism among progressives is in fact a critique of capitalism – buying into and propagating the myth of Jews as economic leeches and extending this to a rabid rejection of Judaism and Israel (as we know, anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism) in their war on free markets. Thoughts?

By: David Thomson

David Thomson — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:59:53 +0000

Leftwing Christians like Jimmy Carter are inherently inclined toward anti-Semitism. If nothing else, leftist Christians (and other left of center religious denominations) are hostile towards the concept of meritocracy. They embrace zero-sum economic theories. Jews, whether secular or religious, are disproportionately more successful than other groups because of their respect for intellectual activity and hard work. To those of a socialist temperament, however, this is interpreted as the result of deceitfulness and outright theft.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:23:57 +0000

G-d is unchanging. He is the same “yesterday, today and tomorrow”.
When He makes a covenant, rest assured that it is in place forever.
We have to look no further than Genesis 12:2-3 to find G-d’s opinion of Israel and the Jewish people.
“And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and so you shall be a blessing;
And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”

Deuteronomy 7:6-8 further shows G-d’s love for His chosen people:
“For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but because the LORD loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the LORD brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.”

As a Christian Zionist, I take the covenants of G-d very seriously. I feel that all Christians have a duty to support our Jewish bothers and sisters and G-d’s chosen people the Jews.
For some time, former President Carter has show an obvious bias toward Israel. Comparing her to an “apartheid”. How far from the truth this truly is.

This quote from Joseph Farah, editor of World Net Daily shows the truth of who actually “owns” the Holy Land:
The truth is that Palestine is no more real than Never-Never Land. The first time the name was used was in 70 A.D. when the Romans committed genocide against the Jews, smashed the Temple and declared the land of Israel would be no more. From then on, the Romans promised, it would be known as Palestine. The name was derived from the Philistines, a Goliathian people conquered by the Jews centuries earlier. It was a way for the Romans to add insult to injury. They also tried to change the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, but that had even less staying power.

Palestine has never existed — before or since — as an autonomous entity. It was ruled alternately by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire and, briefly, by the British after World War I. The British agreed to restore at least part of the land to the Jewish people as their homeland.

There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.
Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of 1 percent of the landmass.

But that’s too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today. Greed. Pride. Envy. Covetousness. No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough.

What about Islam’s holy sites? There are none in Jerusalem.

Shocked? You should be. I don’t expect you will ever hear this brutal truth from anyone else in the international media. It’s just not politically correct.

I know what you’re going to say: “The Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem represent Islam’s third most holy sites.”

Not true. In fact, the Koran says nothing about Jerusalem. It mentions Mecca hundreds of times. It mentions Medina countless times. It never mentions Jerusalem. With good reason. There is no historical evidence to suggest Mohammed ever visited Jerusalem.

So how did Jerusalem become the third holiest site of Islam? Muslims today cite a vague passage in the Koran, the seventeenth Sura, entitled “The Night Journey.” It relates that in a dream or a vision Mohammed was carried by night “from the sacred temple to the temple that is most remote, whose precinct we have blessed, that we might show him our signs. …” In the seventh century, some Muslims identified the two temples mentioned in this verse as being in Mecca and Jerusalem. And that’s as close as Islam’s connection with Jerusalem gets — myth, fantasy, wishful thinking. Meanwhile, Jews can trace their roots in Jerusalem back to the days of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

So what’s the solution to the Middle East mayhem? Well, frankly, I don’t think there is a man-made solution to the violence. But, if there is one, it needs to begin with truth. Pretending will only lead to more chaos. Treating a 5,000-year-old birthright backed by overwhelming historical and archaeological evidence equally with illegitimate claims, wishes and wants gives diplomacy and peacekeeping a bad name.

Mr. Carter would be wise to take Mr. Farah’s words to heart.

Christians, the time for “fence sitting” is gone. You must choose a side. You are either for Israel or against Israel.
Consider your decision carefully before you make it, because in reality, you really are choosing to be for or against G-d Almighty.
(I apologize for the length of my comment).
-Steve

By: Michael Miller

Michael Miller — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:43:24 +0000

Carter admits to being prejudiced: “I have an inclination to select bad news about people that I don’t like much, to extract from the evening news broadcast. If Roslyn’s not there, when she comes, I’ll tell her—what?—the bad things about somebody that we don’t particularly like,” adding, “I’m inclined toward this element of sinfulness, reluctant to forgive, inclined toward criticism of others.” He also admits that he doesn’t care about the truth when he indulges in this vice: “The natural inclination is for us to get tidbits which may or may not be true—that is damaging to someone with whom we disagree—and to try to exalt ourselves by damaging the reputation of the other person.” Simon & Schuster only published 13 of 400 classes they recorded. Wait till the rest of them are released!

By: George Jochnowitz

George Jochnowitz — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:49:52 +0000

Christians today, to a great extent, are friends of Israel and of the Jewish people. One has to be grateful for this. But old habits die hard, and Carter is evidence of this. Matthew 27:25 (”His blood be on us, and on our children”) will always remain in the New Testament.

James Carroll has written a book, CONSTANTINE’S SWORD, which both recognizes the seriousness of the problem and is optimistic about the future. I have reviewed it
http://www.jochnowitz.net/Essays/Constantine.html

By: Lou Santacroce

Lou Santacroce — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:43:21 +0000

As a Christian and an American who came of age in the 70’s, I am heartbroken by Jimmy Carter’s pronouncements in his recent book and, now, in these current revelations. I was born during the Eisenhower administration and lived in complete oblivion of all things political until, at the age of eight, I was brutally awakened by the Kennedy assassination. Five years of Johnson and eight combined years of Nixon and Ford brought me to my 21st birthday and a president — Carter — who made me feel, for the first time in my life, that there was someone in the White House who actually cared about people like me, and about the world. I remember the night, four years later, when he was defeated for re-election, and how Walter Cronkite sputtered “In 20 years the American people will realize just how good a president Jimmy Carter was.” This prophesy now seems to have come true in a way that Uncle Walter could never have imagined. The man whom we’d hoped would lead the world to peace has broken the hearts of us all.