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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Jimmy Carter: do you know now why he can never be forgiven or supported?
For me, I never ever considered what Jimmy Carter says worthy of support. This is a man who considered his biggest inspiration of life to be Anwar Sadat. A man who was responsible for brokering the Camp David accords, and for bribing Egypt to sign a peace treaty with Israel. A man who spoke about human rights as president, while he was toasting pro-US dictators who passed by his White House. And now this: "Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter has apologized to the American Jewish community for 'stigmatizing Israel' and asked for forgiveness for his actions, the JTA reported on Monday. "We must recognize Israel's achievements under difficult circumstances, even as we strive in a positive way to help Israel continue to improve its relations with its Arab populations, but we must not permit criticisms for improvement to stigmatize Israel," Carter wrote in a letter to the JTA." (thanks Sarah)