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empty rhetoric carter and moral authority « — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:11:29 +0000

[...] carter and moral authority April 28th, 2007 — curtisschweitzer Ala my last Newsvine article on Jimmy Carter (which is sadly no longer extant in digital form) and his views on the mid-east, this one too highlights the writings of Alan Dershowitz, who has been a vocal critic of Carter’s ever since the publication of his book Palestine: Peace not Apartheid. Dershowitz recently wrote a piece for FrontPage magazine (also discussed here, here, and here) highlighting the ambiguous and tenuous moral ground on which Carter stands, especially, and perhaps most ironically, regarding the Middle East. An influx of money from Arab sources- many of whom have continually spouted virulent antisemitism- has become a defining aspect of Carter and his foreign policy initiatives: Recent disclosures of Carter’s extensive financial connections to Arab oil money, particularly from Saudi Arabia, had deeply shaken my belief in his integrity. When I was first told that he received a monetary reward in the name of Shiekh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan, and kept the money, even after Harvard returned money from the same source because of its anti-Semitic history, I simply did not believe it. How could a man of such apparent integrity enrich himself with dirty money from so dirty a source?…They were staggering. I was amazed that in the twenty-first century there were still foundations that espoused these views. The Zayed Centre for Coordination and Follow-up, a think-tank funded by the Shiekh and run by his son, hosted speakers who called Jews “the enemies of all nations,” attributed the assassination of John Kennedy to Israel and the Mossad and the 9/11 attacks to the United States’ own military, and stated that the Holocaust was a “fable.” (They also hosted a speech by Jimmy Carter.) To its credit, Harvard turned the money back. To his discredit, Carter did not. [...]

By: Purple Avenger

Purple Avenger — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:42:44 +0000

Not to wish him ill or anything…but his state funeral will be something I’ll definitely consider attending….so I can be sure he stays planted.

By: Lars Walker

Lars Walker — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:25:00 +0000

Despicable. The word “hypocrite” is overused in our time, but it fits here.

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