Dhimmi Carter
A member of Hamas
Dhimmi and Rosalyn Carter with Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer in happier days (1984)
Nobel laureate and former President Dhimmi Carter spread more malaise yesterday when he said in Geneva that “the present administration in Washington has been invariably supportive of Israel, and the well-being of the Palestinian people has been ignored or relegated to secondary importance. . . . Without a resurrection of strong and unbiased American influence, Israeli and Palestinian extremists will prevail. . . . There is no doubt that the lack of real effort to resolve the Palestinian issue is a primary source of anti-American sentiment throughout the Middle East and a major incentive for terrorist activity.”
The aging Dhimmicrat statesman never mentioned, of course, why many people who support a two-state solution in principle have had their hopes dashed again and again: not because of Israel, but because of the jihadist intransigence of groups such as Hamas, which have consistently blocked or destroyed any negotiated settlement. As Hamas’s charter says:
“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”
“The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf [a religious endowment, as delineated by Islamic law] consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. ”
And even worse:
“There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.”
“After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’, and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying.”
Luckily, Dhimmi Carter got the response he deserved from the Bush administration. Asked one official: “Does anyone really care what Carter has to say?”