The prostitute from Plains

Alan M Dershowitz digs the dirt on Jimmah:

It now turns out that Jimmy Carter--who is accusing the Jews of buying the silence of the media and politicians regarding criticism of Israel--has been bought and paid for by Arab money. In his recent book tour to promote Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, Carter has been peddling a particularly nasty bit of bigotry. The canard is that Jews own and control the media, and prevent newspapers and the broadcast media from presenting an objective assessment of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and that Jews have bought and paid for every single member of Congress so as to prevent any of them from espousing a balanced position. How else can anyone understand Carter’s claims that it is impossible for the media and politicians to speak freely about Israel and the Middle East? The only explanation – and one that Carter tap dances around, but won’t come out and say directly – is that Jews control the media and buy politicians. Carter then presents himself as the sole heroic figure in American public life who is free of financial constraints to discuss Palestinian suffering at the hands of the Israelis.

Listen carefully to what Carter says about the media: the plight of the Palestinians is “not something that has been acknowledged or even discussed in this country... You never hear anything about what is happening to the Palestinians by the Israelis.” He claims to have personally “witnessed and experienced the severe restraints on any free and balanced discussion of the facts.” He implies that the Jews impose these “severe restraints.” He then goes on to say that the only reason his book--which has been universally savaged by reviewers--is receiving such negative reviews is because they are all being written by “representatives of Jewish organizations” (demonstrably false!). So much for the media.

Now here is what he says about politicians:

“It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians. Very few would ever deign to visit the Palestinian cities of Ramallah, Nablus, Hebron, Gaza City or even Bethlehem and talk to the beleaguered residents.”

It now turns out that the shoe is precisely on the other foot. Recent disclosures prove that it is Carter who has been bought and paid for by anti-Israel Arab and Islamic money.

Journalist Jacob Laksin has documented the tens of millions of dollars that the Carter Center has accepted from Saudi Arabian royalty and assorted other Middle Eastern sultans, who, in return, Carter dutifully praised as peaceful and tolerant (no matter how despotic the regime). And these are only the confirmed, public donations.

Carter has also accepted half a million dollars and an award from Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, saying in 2001: "This award has special significance for me because it is named for my personal friend, Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan." This is the same Zayed, the long-time ruler of the United Arab Emirates, whose $2.5 million gift to the Harvard Divinity School was returned in 2004 due to Zayed's rampant Jew-hatred. Zayed's personal foundation, the Zayed Center, claims that it was Zionists, rather than Nazis, who “were the people who killed the Jews in Europe” during the Holocaust. It has held lectures on the blood libel and conspiracy theories about Jews and America perpetrating Sept. 11.

Another journalist, Rachel Ehrenfeld, in a thorough and devastating article on "Carter’s Arab Financiers," meticulously catalogues Carter’s ties to Arab moneymen, from a Saudi bailout of his peanut farm in 1976, to funding for Carter’s presidential library, to continued support for all manner of Carter’s post-presidential activities. For instance, it was the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), founded in Pakistan and fronted by a Saudi billionaire, Gaith Pharaon, that helped Carter start up his beloved Carter Center. According to Ehrenfeld:

“BCCI's origins were primarily ideological. [Agha Hasan] Abedi wanted the bank to reflect the supra-national Muslim credo and ‘the best bridge to help the world of Islam, and the best way to fight the evil influence of the Zionists.’

“BCCI's origins were primarily ideological. [Agha Hasan] Abedi wanted the bank to reflect the supra-national Muslim credo and ‘the best bridge to help the world of Islam, and the best way to fight the evil influence of the Zionists.’

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It is particularly disturbing that a former president who has accepted dirty blood-money from dictators, anti-Semites, Holocaust deniers, and supporters of terrorism should try to deflect attention from his own conflicts of interest by raising the oldest canard in the sordid history of anti-Semitism: namely, that Jews have dual loyalty and use their money improperly to influence the country they live in, in favor of the country to which they owe their real allegiance.

It would seem that Carter has become the blood brother of Dr. Goebbels. Goebbels and every other Nazi, neo-Nazi, Klansman and flea-bitten imam on the jihadist version of the rubber chicken circuit.

I won't say that I'm disappointed, because when you have zero respect for someone they have no power to disappoint you, but I am surprised. Ex-presidents have always had some regard for their reputations and their legacy.

By the way, I know that the Saudi royals throw money at every former president and a good many former congressmen as well but can you think of one who has so totally whored himself?

I honestly don't think that it is the money. I think that Carter's primary motivation is hate. Hatred for the nation which rejected him in favor of the contemptible bumpkin Ronald Reagan. The bumpkin who then went and won the Cold War and earned himself a place in the history books right beside FDR.

In Carter's diseased imagination since Islam is the primary enemy of the United States it is Islam which must be the vehicle of his revenge. By aligning himself with the Islamofascists and lending them what he considers the prestige of his name he undermines the position of the US in the world.

Carter's hatred of Israel stems from the fact that Israel is America's only reliable ally in the Middle East and the only beachhead of democratic Western civilization in the middle of the savage sea of medieval Islamic despotisms which make up the Arab/Islamic world. If he can separate the US from Israel the Jews will be driven into the sea and America will suffer a massive loss of international prestige. A loss which will cause America's other allies to reconsider their allegiance.

Undermining America's position in the world is Carter's mission in life. It was behind his meddling in North Korea (he brokered the Clinton administration deal which gave Kim nuclear technology and money in exchange for an empty promise not to build bombs) and it is behind his relationship with the Islamists (that and the wheelbarrow full of cash they are paying him).

The question is how long the American government is going to tolerate his freelancing foreign policy. Especially since his goal is treasonous.