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The late Jimmy Carter was an exemplary man. His honesty, modesty and good works set the mark for what American presidents should be like. He was the quintessential Christian gentlemen and a fine naval officer.
Unfortunately, this good man got embroiled in America’s colonial misadventures more often than the social welfare projects and peace plans that he sought to pursue. Chief among these thorny problems was, of course, the Mideast – no place for a decent, honest man – and, as well, the ugly imbroglio in Iran.
Carter directed and took credit for his administration’s flagship foreign policy effort, the much-ballyhooed Camp David Accords, a series of agreements that were supposed to end Arab-Israeli hostility, bring peace to the Mideast, and address the festering problem of millions of homeless Palestinians who had been driven from their ancestral homes by the US-backed creation of the state of Israel.
Long, torturous negotiations ensued in September 1978 at Camp David, Maryland that finally brought together Palestine Liberation chief Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin. With great fanfare, agreement was proclaimed for Israel, PLO, and Egypt to recognize one another and embark on normal trade and diplomatic relations. The Palestinians of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza were promised autonomy. Egypt was given $1.3 billion by the US; Israel was given $3 billion annually. All sorts of diplomatic and military goodies were offered. Peace was about to dawn.
But the dawn never came. Egypt’s then ruler, Anwar Sadat, took the American cash (some of it in Swiss banks it was alleged) and supported Israel’s plan to pack Palestinian refugees into the open-air Gaza prison. Both Sadat and Begin were awarded the Nobel Prize.
It was claimed Sadat had been on the CIA payroll since the early 1950’s. My journalist mother, Nexhmie Zaimi, interviewed Sadat and described him as ‘a clown.’ But a clever clown. Most Egyptians viewed Sadat as a traitor or crook.
Meanwhile, Israel began back-tracking on the accords. It refused to grant any independence to its captive Palestinians, imposed tighter military controls over them and continued expropriating Palestinian lands and building new Jewish settlements. In short, Palestinians were screwed.
Shocked and dismayed by the selling-out of Palestinians, Jimmy Carter actually wrote a book, ‘Peace not Apartheid’ that accused Israel of apartheid South African behavior towards Palestinians. Predictably, he was blasted by a tsunami of vitriol by pro-Israel groups and, of course, accused of ‘antisemitism.’ In the media, the loveable, avuncular Jimmy Carter quickly became a hate figure.
In 2020, the then Trump administration cobbled together a ‘deal’ known as the Abraham Accords that paid off despotic Arab regimes like the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and basket case Sudan to make nice to Israel. It was a sleazy compact worthy of New York real estate promoters or gang chiefs. All the members, Sudan excepted, were scared to death of Iran. Morocco’s king was given a US imprimatur for his illegal annexation of Western Sahara.
Syria would not join this sell-out and was marked for regime change. Israel said all was ok until the mass eruption in Gaza began. Of all the Arab states, only dirt-poor Yemen acted to show support for the besieged Palestinians in Gaza.
In Washington, an addlepated President Biden let Israel and its American neocon fifth column take over his government and lay waste to Gaza. Many longed for the days of honest Jimmy Carter.
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jimmy carter was a peanut farming rube, put into place by nelson rockfeller, as pay back, for his being thrown off the gerarld ford bandwagon. he helped usher us, into the the zioneocon empire, by making a polish potato farmer, into his national security advisor. brzezinski then helped give birth to “islamic terrorism” as a foreign policy platform, that is still in use today.
don’t get me wrong i have nothing against farmers or rubes in general, when they stay on the farm and stick to what they know, growing crops. farmers are actually very useful people and shouldn’t be wasted, by becoming useless politicians and puppets, of the oligarchs that really run the show.
On September 6, 1978, Anwar Sadat, the Egyptian president, and Israeli Prime Minister Manachem Begin, at Camp David, in the presence of Jimmy Carter, signed a much-publicized agreement. Previously, invited to the White House by Jimmy Carter during talks in the Oval Office, in a relaxed atmosphere, the American president had asked Nicolae Ceauşescu to obtain from Yasser Arafat, the president of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization), a long-term armistice. Which was achieved as follows: Nicolae Ceauşescu met Anwar Sadat and Manachem Begin for talks on the Palestinian issue in Sinaia. The formula: territories in exchange for full recognition. What followed is known: Sadat paid a visit to Jerusalem and addressed the Knesset. Now, the role played by the former leader from Bucharest in everything that Jimmy Carter, who eventually received the Nobel Peace Prize, accomplished, is no longer remembered. Is there true history, Mr. Margolis?
What Americans gain from any of this is beyond me.
Thank you, Eric, for this appropriate tribute to Jimmy Carter. He was an exceptionally honest politician. It was during the Carter presidency that hope for a lasting Mideast peace was most robust. No US president ever pressed the Israelis as fervently as Carter. Numerous fair and well-intentioned peace agreements were signed under Carter’s watch. Unfortunately, all these accords went nowhere. The Zionists stalled them to death.
Ultimately, the Zions would never abide a sovereign Palestinian State since Israel secretly sought more Arab land and fewer gentiles in their midst. Besides, the Israelis understood that there would forever be Arab resentment over Israel’s conquest of Palestine, Israel’s theft of Arab property, and the Jewish state’s de jure discrimination against non-Jews inside and out of Israel.
The triumphalist spirit of Jewish supremacism makes anything resembling a ‘lasting peace’ nearly impossible. Israel’s ongoing genocide there reveals their heartless objectives and tyrannical mindset.
“this” being what, exactly?
Kennedy, Nixon, Carter – they all wanted peace, and look what happened to all of them.
Kennedy was killed
Nixon was impeached
Carter was a one term President – notice that that does not happen too often, except when there is a cabal behind it. (eg. Trump)
Carter inherited Nixon’s garbage economy i.e. failed price controls, US removed from gold standard, high inflation from Vietnam War and high energy costs from Arab countries in retaliation toward pro Israel.
Also as a visionary he thought about alternative energy. Had we taken his vision on solar we may have by now figured out how to make super efficient solar instead of starting out 50 years late. He was more than a Peanut farmer as he held a degree in Nuclear Engineering and had the balls to inspect Three Mile Island personally after US first Nuclear Accident.
I hated his Foreign Policy, but to be fair, our FP has never been to my liking. I think realizing how evil it was what compelled him to do Penance by forming and laboring in Habitats for Humanity.
We are deluding ourselves if we expect a President to be perfect.
God Bless him
So what was the deal with George Bush the Greater’s single term? As the former head of the CIA, Skull and Bones man, and lifelong intelligence asset, if there was any president who was on board with the deep state, it was him. Indeed, it’s likely the deep state tried to assassinate Reagan so that they could install Bush as president. My guess is that Bush did something to greatly piss off Israel sometime early in his term.
Possible Penguin.
He was a good Submariner.
On land looks foolish, if at sea in his element.
I agree with most of his. Pres Carter sought a road that is hard to travel in politics. I don’t think he was sabotaged by the military during the rescue attempt. Whatever the error, it was by the military planners and that peculiar fate of chaos (unexpected factor).
The rescue failure, the hostage daily countdown, and the inherited inflation — made his tenure landmine city.
The images of the downed aircraft inthe ranian desert and the tear gas wafting across the white house lawn choking the executive and the Shah tell the story of events out of his grasp.
He was a very very decent human being and president.
Great summary of the facts
He did indeed. President George Herbert W. Bush did indeed ruffle Israeli feathers,when he walked at Israeli requests to have American taxpayers underwrite some $10 billion USD in loan guarantees, so that Israel could continue constructing illegal Jewish settlements in the Israeli occupied West Bank and ( then) Gaza.
he didn’t piss off anyone, he did exactly what he came to do. you’re right the assassination attempt on reagan was a botched m.k.ultra hit, surprised they didn’t have a second shooter, like with rfk. bush ran the whitehouse trom the basement (remember iran contra?), for 8 years and then 4 as president.
like you point out, he was a bonesman, as well as a cia spook who was appointed director, by gerald ford (warren commission), first unelected president (but not the last).
he was a very devious weasel and not at all the stupid bumbling idiot, that he pretended to be. he threw the 92 election to his favorite son, slick willie, longtime cia asset, since his days as an oxford scholar. this allowed him to own both parties, creating the hideous two headed duopoly, that is the neolib/neocon monster.
clinton transformed the demonrats into neoliberal war mongers, destroying yugoslavia and beginning zato’s march to russias borders. he kept the whitehouse warm and handed the keys to george jr.
shrub took it to the next level, with the pnac coup of 2000, they created the zioneocon empire, declaring war on the world, through their war of terrorism, that is still raging today.
There is a conspiracy theory floating around out there called The Franklin Affair. Long story short, GHWB was also gay and a pederast. Sounds plausible. I always thought there was something slightly effeminate about his mannerisms.
agree and jr. looked light in the loafers as well, especially his “special relationship” with tony blair. all those “bonesmen” are that way, that’s how they assure loyalty.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8118843/George-W-Bush-and-Tony-Blair-bonded-over-Meet-the-Parents.html
The fawning over Carter and these idiotic stories telling us how wonderful he was are obviously written by misled fools who never actually lived during the Carter presidency.
Hey guys, I can’t believe they let these two MORTAL ENEMIES in the same room together, I’m glad they had security or someone would have DIED!
https://worldstar.com/videos/wshh2d05HtgsospEaq8x/where-are-the-lip-readers-barack-obama-and-donald-trump-seen-cracking-jokes-and-smiling-together-at-jimmy-carters-funeral