DESPICABLE ATTACK
The charge of anti-semitism besmirches your integrity and goes against you in an unexplainable way, puts the Hitler label on you.
Why would anyone do that, if untrue, except in a despicable effort to try to destroy a person's character?
How dare anyone accuse former President Jimmy Carter, who organized the historic September 1978 Camp David meeting and accord between late Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menacham Begin, of being anti-semitic? The accord signed by them on September 17, 1978, was a model of pro-semitic global diplomacy at its best.
How dare anyone state differently? The anti-semitism charge against former President Carter is ridiculous and an insult against him and our country's legacy when he was our leader and thereafter.
Yet in newspapers across the country, for example The Houston Chrincicle on January 28, President Carter's book, Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid, is labeled as anti-semitic.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/4504934.html
So, yes, in his book, President Carter questioned the number of Jews on a particular United Nations committee. That is not anti-semitism, as charged by his critics, but a legitimate concern he raised about diversity on a particular committee that was apparently top-heavy with one point of view. Apparently, President Carter wanted more balance on this committee. That is not anti-semitism. It was a request by the president, who organized the historic 1978 Sadat-Begin agreement, for more balance and fairness on that committee whose focus was the Middle East.
Arnaud de Borchgrave, for 30 years Newsweek magazine's chief foreign correspondent, then editor-in-chief of The Washington Times for a decade before taking the helm at United Press International, quotes author Yoram Kanyuk, 79, who de Borchgrave describes as "an intellectual hardliner and former liberal," from a Christmas Day 2006 piece run by Ynetnews.com or Yedioth Ahronoth, one of Israel's main electronic news sources:
"Israeli action in the territories corrupt the Zionist dream, and is no better than apartheid," Kanyuk wrote. "I haven't been a leftist for years because I don't believe the Arabs would agree to share this country with us, and I believe in the Jews' right to a home and a state in our historic homeland. Yet what we've been doing in the territories borders on the criminal.
"When President Carter, who was never a friend of Israel, writes that what we are doing in the territories is similar to apartheid," Kanyuk wrote, "everyone cries out in protest. Yet he wasn't far off from reality: our behavior is worse than that prevalent in South Africa at the time. It's unpleasant to say this, but this is the way it is.
"The killing. The hatred. The beatings. The humiliations. What will all this bring? Will we have fewer Qassam rocket attacks? Will there be no more rocket attacks if an elderly woman cannot reach the hospital? I'm ashamed of a country I helped create [because] we've become a violent, heartless society. We've killed at crosswalks because no car driven by an Israeli would allow someone limping with a walking stick to cross the road. What happened to us?
"Our intelligent young people are leaving the country. For most of them the reality they see is a harsh one. Those who remain here are violent and indifferent, yet we, who do not wish to renounce the Zionist dream, see how with every passing day it becomes more wicked and cruel."
Well. We're still waiting for a peaceful solution two decades after the Sadat-Begin accord signed with President Carter's blessing at Camp David, but a good outcome will probably never be seen in our lifetime as crazy young Middle East hoodlums prevent it.
This has been our horror story for more than five decades. Why did our forebears get us into this hornet nest?
We live in an unfortunate era that replicates the cultural war centuries ago between Christians and Muslims.
Jews and Muslims are all semites.
The United States, through its military sales program, has for decades provided the best military aircraft to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Libya, Iraq, Iran – going back to President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration in the 1950s and up until today. We have continuously trained the pilots and mechanics of these countries to fly and maintain these aircraft sold to their counties by Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Martin Marietta, Cessna, you name it.
So we armed these people on both sides, our allies over decades, trained them. How can we now be called anti-semite?
We want a two-state solution. Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, both George Bushes, all worked for this. So how can anyone legitimately throw out the smear anti-semitic label?
Our country and all presidents from both parties throughout our lives have worked for liberty and peace and human rights for all the people in the Middle East. So forget the anti-semitism charge. That’s a low tar-baby used by people without manners or proper upbringing who apparently want to besmirch unfairly another person’s character and integrity.
Is this what we have come to? Having to defend ourselves against vulgar people without manners or intellectual ability, who just throw offensive insults and threaten us with pure vulgarity?
This is the culture war we face. It’s not Christian or Jew versus Muslims. It’s decent people who care for others versus vulgar people who care only for themselves and always want to start a fight. Bring it on. People of good character and honesty will win this battle, as they always have.
