Palestine: Peanuts and Appeasement

Marsupial wannabe (see: Funeral Fashion Notes, Etc.)

This is an excerpt of an actual email exchange between me and a friend who lives out of town, weeks before Jimmy Carter's new book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" attracted any attention, negative or otherwise:

me:...[my post] The Worst. You know, of course that with a title like that it has to be about Jimmah. If I buy a voucher at People's Republic of Books and stand in line for two hours on December 14, I can get an autographed copy and meet the man. I am tempted...

my friend: I urge you to resist temptation in this case; I can think of no reason to waste either time or money on that priggish, prissy, self-absorbed, mean-spirited, back-stabbing waste of protoplasm. If Nixon deserves a stint in Hell, it's because his paranoiac pecadillos set the stage for that sorry excuse for a mammal to be elected.

me: [...] As for Jimmah, my idea of a fabulous way to spend a morning is standing in line with you at People's Republic of Books with Starbucks in hand, you ostentatiously taking smoke breaks outside the door (directly outside the door) while we bet on whether I have the balls to ask a former president (a) are those real? (point to his teeth) and (b) how does it feel to make Richard Nixon look good by comparison?

my friend: I assume that People's Republic of Books is infested with Liberal types (by that I mean more than is usual for a bookstore), so smoking outside their doorway would cause them much anguish - which is all to the good. I would add one more question to your list: how does Mr. Peanut reconcile his pettiness and grandiosity with his purported Christian principles?

What I loved about this was that my friend seemed to gravitate to the same alliterative quirks that make Jimmy's book title so catchy. It wasn't intentional, just serendipitous, uh, precocious and perhaps prescient.

Here's what others are saying about the priggish, prissy, petty waste of presidential protoplasm and his prostration to the pusillanimous Palestinians:

Michael Bard, writing for the Jewish Virtual Library, reviews P: PnA and finds it wanting. Wanting accuracy, that is. This review also serves as a nice refresher course for the history of Modern Israel. This about Jimmah's treatment of the Saudis (and you thought the Bushes were too close to the Kingdom!):

In a fawning section about the Saudis, Carter talks about the “impressive closeness” of the monarchy to the subjects while ignoring the apartheid aspects of Saudi society. He says nothing about the Saudis’ crude anti-Semitism and their rejection of the idea that Jews should rule over any Muslim territory. Carter praises the Saudi peace proposal without examining the various elements that made it a nonstarter for serious negotiations with Israel, not to mention the Saudi rejection of directly negotiating with Israel or any Saudi traveling to Israel.

While Carter talks about how Saudi Arabia “can be a crucial and beneficial force in the Middle East,” he ignores that it is a sponsor of terrorism (remember 9/11 and the terrorthon to support Palestinian martyrs?) and the principal funder of schools that teach the most radical views on Islam. In describing the Saudis’ “caution in dealing with controversial issues” as “justified,” he shows he is a mere apologist for one of the world’s most repressive regimes. Carter criticizes American political leaders for overlooking the Saudis’ “serious human rights violations,” apparently forgetting that as the leader who put the greatest emphasis on human rights in foreign policy, he was perhaps the worst offender of all during his presidency.

Over at FrontPageMag, Jason Maoz discusses Carter's issues with the Jooooos. This is just one of a many incidents in what appears to be Sweater Boy's simmering antisemitism:

In Dangerous Liaison : The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship , Andrew and Leslie Cockburn revealed that during a March 1980 meeting with his senior political advisers, Carter, discussing his fading reelection prospects and his sinking approval rating in the Jewish community, snapped, “If I get back in, I’m going to [expletive] the Jews.” Carter – such was the country’s good fortune – did not get back in. But as evidenced by his years of pro-Palestinian advocacy, reams of anti-Israel op-ed articles, and the release last week of his latest book/screed, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid , he’s been trying to [expletive] the Jews ever since. (ht: Melanie Phillips)

Actual MarsupialAnd you thought what Mr. Stein*  had to say was bad...hooo boy. 

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*  "...replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments."

Comments

[Tom the Redhunter]

A long time ago I used to share the opinon that Carter was the "best ex-president." I now think that he's among the worst. He should have stuck to building houses for Habitat for Humanity.