re: #274 lawhawk

Carter’s legacy on the Middle East is the direct result of being fortuitous enough to be around when Anwar Sadat made his historic trip to Jerusalem and determined that Egypt’s future relied on peace with Israel. Ending the state of war between the two countries, normalization of relations, and using US foreign aid to paper over differences, and the Israeli loss of the Sinai were key.

Carter was there to help paper the differences, but since then, he’s shown himself to be a rabid anti-Israeli fanatic who reeks of anti-Semitism and has no problem sitting down with terrorists like Hamas at every opportunity.

Carter had no problem visiting Hamas leaders, but did nothing to press the issue of Gilad Shalit - at a time when Carter could have played humanitarian. The issue never came up - and Carter never pressed Hamas on respecting human rights.

Instead, Carter myopically looks at Israel making concession after concession ignoring the fact that the Palestinians have not only repeatedly failed to fulfill their obligations under Oslo, but that the Palestinians repeated engage in terror attacks against Israelis, violating Israel’s sovereign rights - and attacking Israel’s sovereign right to defend itself from attack (and its attackers).

Carter is a terrible person.