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 leaves office on Jan. 20, and to push for the admission of ‘Palestine’ into the United Nations as a full member.”
All the while, the jihadist, racist, apartheid Palestinian Leader Mahmoud Abbas has stated: “In a final resolution, we would not see the presence of a single Israeli – civilian or soldier – on our lands”. Note Abbas’ use of the word “final solution,” a well-known phrase for “the Nazi plan for the extermination of the Jews.”
In a piece that well describes “the moral disintegration of Jimmy Carter,” Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, once targeted by the leftist media “for coming out as a Republican,” stated:
Carter’s pronouncements on the Middle East have become so toxic that had he not once been the American Commander-in-Chief they would be dismissed as the ravings of a man utterly out of touch with reality.
Carter has also called Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal “a strong proponent of the peace process,” and refused to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last year because he called it “a waste of time.” Carter has also tried to push America into recognizing Hamas, despite its murderous campaign against the Jewish state.
“Jimmy Carter: U.S. Must Recognize ‘Palestine’ at United Nations”, by Joel B. Pollak, Breitbart, November 28, 2016:
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has written an op-ed in the New York Times, “America Must Recognize Palestine,” which is filled with outright lies and fails to condemn — or even address — Palestinian terror……
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.
Carter’s op-ed is no exception. He calls on President Barack Obama to recognize “Palestine” before he leaves office on Jan. 20, and to push for the admission of “Palestine” into the United Nations as a full member — despite the fact that “Palestine” has no fixed borders; is divided between the West Bank and Gaza; encourages terror against its neighbor, and has shown no interest in abiding by basic international human rights norms, even towards its own potential Muslim and Christian citizens.
The former president writes that “most” Palestinians in the “occupied territories” — it is never clear which ones he means — “live largely under Israeli military rule.” That is a blatant lie, as the roughly 1.7 million Palestinians in Gaza are ruled by the Hamas terrorist organization, and nearly all of the 2.7 million Palestinians in the West Bank live under the direct control of the Palestinian Authority.
He also claims that “600,000 Israeli settlers in Palestine enjoy the benefits of Israeli citizenship and laws.” The number of Israeli settlers in the West Bank is roughly 300,000 at most; Carter is clearly counting Jewish residents of Jerusalem as “settlers,” an absurd claim that denies Israeli sovereignty and Jewish history in the country’s capital city.
Carter wants the United Nations to impose a Palestinian state by fiat, with U.S. recognition of “Palestine” being the catalyst: “I am certain that United States recognition of a Palestinian state would make it easier for other countries that have not recognized Palestine to do so, and would clear the way for a Security Council resolution on the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” he writes.
He makes no mention of Palestinian terrorism, and ignores the future status of Jerusalem.