Doc's Talk: Don’t Get Carter

Saturday, April 04, 2009

Don’t Get Carter

Julia Gorin
http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2009/04/01/dont-get-carter/

According to New Yorker scribe Seymour Hersh, Jimmy Carter is advising Obama on Israel. From a Republican Jewish Coalition press release:

…Carter has met with President Obama to discuss foreign policy…Carter is advocating that the Obama administration become actively involved in Syrian-Israeli talks…[which] would be predicated on Israel giving up the Golan Heights, including their strategic control over Israel’s water sources…[T]he President is being advised to pursue warmer relations with Syria based on pressuring Israel to make strategic concessions….

I don’t get it. Aren’t there plenty of other Jew-haters out there that Obama could tap? Why does everyone always latch on to Carter?

This comes just as I was thinking how between appointing the entire Clinton administration and appointing Zbigniew Brzezinski, the only person Obama forgot to reinstall was Jimmy Carter. But now here he is.

Does anyone know why these people are still even alive? I swear it seems like sometimes God just forgets about some folks, usually the ones who do the most damage. But just because God doesn’t take them doesn’t mean Obama has to.

Everyone keeps wondering when Fidel Castro is going to drop dead already, but he’s actually two years younger than his best friend Jimmy Carter. I know you’re not supposed to talk about presidents dying, but what if they’re already brain-dead? Jimmy Carter has been in a Permanent Vegitative State for 40 years. We killed Terri Schiavo and she wasn’t nearly as brain-dead as Carter.

I know he’s a great humanitarian. He builds houses for poor people and helps Arabic people kill Jewish people.

But still. Obama could at least find someone who gets better marks from Hezbollah, which in December refused to meet with Carter, explaining that he supports “Zionist terrorism.” (Not openly calling for the destruction of Israel qualifies as support for Zionist terrorism, which is also what implicates all Western media as being “pro-Israeli.”)

Rather than Carter, why not Jeremiah Wright? When Carter went on his rogue Middle East tour in December, Wright praised him and went a step further by denouncing Zionism itself. Or how about Ingrid Mattson instead of Carter — chosen to speak at Obama’s inaugural prayer service, and president of the mainstream Islamic Society of North America, which has actual ties to Hamas and other terrorist groups and is included as a co-conspirator in the Dallas terrorism case against the Holy Land Foundation.

Then again, Obama and Carter do have a lot in common — moral relativism, anti-Americanism, pacifism, and embarrassing relatives.

I know we’re not supposed to talk badly about the second black president, because it can easily be perceived as racism. But I’ve got nothing against the idea of a President Obama. After all, some of my best friends are anti-Semites. Including a few black ones.

Of course, one shouldn’t assume that the man is anti-Semitic. Just because he always surrounds himself with a multicultural cornucopia of Jew-haters doesn’t mean that he hates Jews. Apparently he just didn’t know there was anything wrong with hating Jews.

“What are you talking about, Julia? He appointed Rahm Emanuel his chief of staff — and he’s Jewish.”

So was Stalin’s chief executioner.

OK, so black people voted for Obama because they think he’s black; Muslims voted for him because they think he’s Muslim; gay people voted for him because they heard he might be gay; Democrats voted for him because he’s a communist; and Jews voted for him because they’re suicidal.

Seventy-eight percent of Jews voted for Obama — and he won. Oh my God, we really do control everything. You can tell by the fact that there’s a black part-time Muslim in the Oval Office. Where no Jew will ever be.

Indeed, Jews made sure that a black man became president before any Jew, any woman, any Italian-American or any Mormon did. Because to a Jew there is no higher achievement than this.

The thinking goes: “We got a black man into the White House. Our work is done. It’s OK for the world to let Ahmadinejad kill us now. The important thing is we elected a black man president, and it shows how far the world has come since the Holocaust. So they can go ahead and kill us now.”

For some reason, Jews think they have more in common with black people than with white people. Unfortunately for them, a lot of black people feel they have more in common with Muslims. Such as hating Jews, for example.

(Hypothetically: Is it racist to be more freaked out by black or brown anti-Semites than by white ones?)

Anyway, the moral of the story is: When people tell you that you’re racist if you didn’t vote for Barack Obama, tell them that they’re anti-Semitic if they did. Especially the Jews.

Any Jew who finally and belatedly eschewed Jimmy Carter in 2006 when he released his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid and then voted for his intellectual clone in 2008 needs to be reminded of what Carter said to Menachem Begin in 1979, when the latter cited the Holocaust to underscore why a secure Israel is important. Carter shot back, “I’m sick and tired of hearing about the Holocaust!”

It had been only 35 years since one-third of the world’s Jewish population was exterminated, and seven years since that encore in Munich — and Carter had had enough of hearing about it. Imagine him rolling his eyes about slavery — 113 years after it was abolished — in the same way, and saying “Get off the plantation already!” Siblings estranged by the Holocaust are still being reunited; WWII Nazis are still running loose; and mass graves of Jews are still turning up in the Ukraine — but just 30-some years since the event itself and Carter was saying, “Quit yer whining and get out of the oven already!”

I think the state of the world can be summed up with a selection from the 1982 book Truly Tasteless Jokes:

Sammy Davis, Jr. stepped onto a bus…and the bus driver said, “[Ethnic slur], get to the back of the bus.”

“But I’m Jewish,” protested Davis.

“Get off.”

The Obama-Carter World is truly tasteless.

Carter does have a point, however, when he says that in America one can’t freely discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — that in a way, there is more freedom of speech outside America. Indeed, you can go almost anywhere else in the world and hold a press conference announcing that Jews suck, and you’ll be applauded. Here it’s not so easy still. But we’re getting there.

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The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

Bedouins:

Bedouins are nomadic Muslims who were in Israel when modern borders were set in place and are now considered Israeli citizens. They are not required to draft but a growing number choose to enlist. In 2012, there were over 1,400 Bedouin Muslim soldiers doing regular IDF service and almost 1,500 in the reserves.

Read more:http://www.idfblog.com/2014/02/27/truth-idf-numbers-pictures/#more-34027

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.
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Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’
-- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.
Clare M. Lopez

Who is being discriminated-facts tell the truth

Religious bias

Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,409 offenses reported by law enforcement. A breakdown of the bias motivation of religious-bias offenses showed:

65.4 percent were anti-Jewish.
13.2 percent were anti-Islamic.
9.5 percent were anti-other religion, i.e., those not specified.
4.3 percent were anti-Catholic.
3.8 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
3.3 percent were anti-Protestant.
0.5 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/narratives/hate-crime-2010-incidents-and-offenses.

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror Yemini
In 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").
Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state.
Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."
Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

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