Jimmy Carter blames Israel for Paris terrorist attacks
Former
U.S. President Jimmy Carter is worried that the Charlie Hebdo attack in
Paris will cause the evil American people to rise up against Muslims...
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Political gadfly Jimmy Carter said on Wednesday
that the International Criminal Court (ICC) should probe Israel for
possible war crimes committed during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza
following the Hamas rocket attacks. During an appearance on a television
comedy show, the former American president --who
in the past accused Israel of practicing apartheid and has showed his
support for Islamist terrorist groups -- also blamed the Paris attacks
on the Muslims' anger over the harsh treatment of the Palestinian people
by the Israeli occupiers.
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Former President Jimmy Carter, a Georgia peanut farmer who was
arguably the worst president of the last century, apparently justified
the terrorist attacks in France by blaming Israel. Appearing on Jon Stewart's Daily Show, Carter blamed the brutal murder and mayhem that left 17 people dead in Paris on the Jewish people in Israel.
"One of the origins for [the violence in Paris] is the Palestinian
problem. And this aggravates people who are affiliated in any way with
the Arab people who live in the West Bank and Gaza, what they are doing
now — what’s being done to them. So I think that’s part of it,” said
Carter, who was a one-term president who received the Nobel Peace Prize
before leaving the United States in a shambles. Ironically, the current
president also received the same award within the first months of his
own administration.
Carter has publicly supported Palestinian extremism for years and has
even published a highly controversial book in which he defends
Palestinian violence and calls Israel the "tiny vortex around which
swirl the winds of hatred, intolerance and bloodshed." It was in the
book that the former president outright justified Palestinian violence
as simply a reaction to Israeli apartheid.
In fact, according to Judicial Watch,
a public-interest group that investigates political and government
corruption, "He’s the only U.S. president to participate in a highly
publicized hug fest with Middle Eastern terrorist leaders. The shameful
meeting took place during a visit to Syria where Carter met Hamas leader
Khaled Meshal, who runs his violent operation from Damascus to avoid
being arrested by the Israeli government. Hamas, a sophisticated and
well-funded Palestinian extremist group, has for years appeared on the
State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations and for a
former president, or any western leader of Carter’s stature, to meet
with its boss is inconceivable." He is on record
as accusing the Israelis colonizing the Palestinians' land and
persecuting the Muslims which contributes to their hopelessness and
leads the Palestinians to react by honoring suicide bombers as saintly
martyrs to be rewarded in heaven. Carter also said that the killings of
Israelis is viewed as victories in holy jihad.
"Carter has long supported Palestinian extremism and justifies its
violence as a reaction to Israeli's apartheid," according to Judical
Watch. The policy wonk publication, Foreign Policy, printed a Carter
diatribe that accused Israel of "war crimes" and said that in order to
end the conflict, Hamas should be treated as a "legitimate political
actor" in the Middle East.
This is the same Jimmy Carter who, a few years ago, visited Cuba
where he joined communist dictator Fidel Castro and his brother, Raul
Castro, in a what became an affectionate photo opportunity for the three
men. And according to news stories at the time, Carter publicly
denigrated is own country, while he praised the Caribbean island that
was and continues to be a hotbed of human rights violations.
While not receiving much media attention, Carter worked behind the
scenes to free five convicted Cuban government spies from federal
prison. President Barack Obama recently released them as part of a
secret agreement with the Castro brothers. While the news media continue
to place him on a pedestal, he shares a love for a number of his
country's enemies -- much the same as New York City Mayor Bill de
Blasio, who in 1994 spent his honeymoon schmoozing with Fidel Castro --
and praising Cuba as an island paradise while hundreds of political
prisoners languished in Castro's dungeons.
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