According to Yoram Ettinger, a former Israeli ambassador, the State Department has a disturbing record of miscomprehension and failure in the Middle East. His report on this record is here: The US State Department has long assumed that generous diplomatic and financial gestures can convince the volatile Middle East to abandon anti-Western ideologies and adopt […]
‘The real Islamophobes are those who caution that exercising one’s free speech will set off the assassins’
Katha Pollitt’s words here recall something I used to repeat many years ago: that those who accused me of “Islamophobia” were the real “Islamophobes,” as they assume that to oppose jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women is to “hate Muslims,” as if all Muslims supported jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women. […]
J Street Gives Jimmy Carter An Award
Elder of Ziyon has a piece on J Street’s recently giving an award to Jimmy Carter. It’s not surprising: J Street is the well-known anti-Israel organization of pro-Palestinian far-left Jews, and Jimmy Carter Is admired by all those who share his deep animus to Israel. A report on Carter’s latest recognition is here: “J-Street […]
GQ wishes Jimmy Carter would run for high office in 2018
GQ is supposed to be about men’s fashion or something, but today the Left is politicizing everything everywhere, and so GQ is indulging in some fulsome nostalgia for this superannuated anti-Semite. Back in 2008, Carter claimed that Hamas was prepared to accept the right of Israel to “live as a neighbor next door in peace.” […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Carter Center Sued for Providing Support to Hamas
Jimmy Carter’s unstinting hatred for Israel paved the way. My latest in FrontPage: The Washington Free Beacon reported Monday that the Zionist Advocacy Center is alleging in a suit that former President Jimmy Carter’s nonprofit organization, the Carter Center, “has used taxpayer funding to provide material support to international terrorist groups, including Hamas.” Given Carter’s […]
Carter Center sued for providing support to Hamas, defrauding taxpayers
Jimmy Carter’s unswerving and consistent hatred for Israel paved the way for this. “Carter Center Sued for Providing Support to Terrorists, Defrauding Taxpayers,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, April 23, 2018: The Trump administration is seeking the dismissal of a suit alleging the nonprofit helmed by former president Jimmy Carter has used taxpayer funding […]
Jimmy Carter, Lord Caradon, the Palestine Mandate, and U.N. Resolution 242 (Part III)
The real ”key words” of Resolution 242, as crafted mainly by Lord Caradon, are those about the need for “secure and defensible borders.” Carter doesn’t even mention this phrase, which Lord Caradon thought was the most important provision of the Resolution. For Carter surely knows that the pre-1967 lines he wants Israel to be forced […]
Jimmy Carter, Lord Caradon, the Palestine Mandate, and Resolution 242 (Part II)
Jimmy Carter treats a sentence from the non-binding preamble to Resolution 242 as if it were a binding part of the Resolution itself. He thinks that the phrase about the “inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war” applies to Israel, when examination of the Mandate for Palestine reveals that it is Jordan, not Israel, […]
Jimmy Carter, Lord Caradon, the Palestine Mandate, and U.N. Resolution 242 (Part I)
The glad news is that Jimmy Carter is again bringing peace to the Middle East, by saving Israel from itself, as he has tried so many times before, and without a moment to lose. He wants to make sure that the American government, while still under Obama, joins 137 other countries in recognizing a country […]
Jimmy Carter wants UN to impose a Palestinian state by fiat, with US recognition
In a cynical gesture repeated each year, the UN observes the “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People” on Nov. 29, turning a positive anniversary into a pretext for Israel-bashing and antisemitism. Jimmy Carter has taken full advantage of this “cynical gesture,” going so far as to call on Obama to “recognize ‘Palestine’ before he […]