Fourteen Jewish members of the Carter Center resigned Friday as Board of Councilors over Jimmy Carter’s controversial book in which the ex-president blamed Israel for the failure of Middle East peace efforts.
The Board of Councilor members accused Jimmy Carter of portraying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as being purely one-sided with Israel at fault. The Jewish group said Carter had abandoned his role as a peace broker in favor of malicious partisan advocacy in their resignation letter to the ex-president.
The letter also cited a passage in Carter’s book in which he appears to condone violence against Israelis which appears to call for Palestinians to end acts of terrorism only if Israel abides by its obligations under international law and under the “road map,” a peace plan guided by the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia.
“It is imperative that the general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups make it clear that they will end the suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism when international laws and the ultimate goals of the road map for peace are accepted by Israel,” Carter writes.
“We can no longer support your strident and uncompromising position,” the letter said.
The decision to resign the Carter Center’s Board of Councilors had been in the works for weeks, a Jewish news organization reports, but the exact wording of the letter took time for all 14 of the prominent members of the Jewish community to word.
Jimmy Carter has steadfastly stood by his new book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”, vowing to not withdraw it from the market.
The Carter Center’s executive director, John Hardman, downplayed the resignation of the Jewish Board of Councilor members in a press release Thursday saying, “The Board of Councilors is an advisory body made up of 200 community leaders and they act merely as emissaries of the Carter Center and do not control the organization.”
Even though Hardman downplayed the mass resignation of the Jewish Board of Councilors, Jewish community leaders said that Jimmy Carter has continued to lash out against Jewish Americans in interviews over his controversial book which they say are anti-Semitic.
Carter met last month with a group of rabbis in Phoenix in an attempt to patch things up, but the rabbis left unable to convince themselves – or the ex-president – that his attitude towards Israel was wrong.
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The obvious question is, that Carter always had a rep for being Anti Israel. How did he manage to have 14 JEWISH members on his board to begin with???
To YW
THIS IS QUITE LENGTHY BUT “TZIM ZACH”. IT’S YOUR CHICE TO POST THIS.
Ex-President for Sale
January 08, 2007 11:51 AM EST
© 2007 by Alan M. Dershowitz
Recent disclosures prove that it is Carter who has been bought and paid for by anti-Israel Arab and Islamic money.
Journalist Jacob Laksin has documented the tens of millions of dollars that the Carter Center has accepted from Saudi Arabian royalty and assorted other Middle Eastern sultans, who, in return, Carter dutifully praised as peaceful and tolerant (no matter how despotic the regime).
And these are only the confirmed, public donations.
Carter has also accepted half a million dollars and an award from Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, saying in 2001: “This award has special significance for me because it is named for my personal friend, Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan.” This is the same Zayed, the long-time ruler of the United Arab Emirates, whose $2.5 million gift to the Harvard Divinity School was returned in 2004 due to Zayed’s rampant Jew-hatred. Zayed’s personal foundation, the Zayed Center, claims that it was Zionists, rather than Nazis, who “were the people who killed the Jews in Europe” during the Holocaust. It has held lectures on the blood libel and conspiracy theories about Jews and America perpetrating Sept. 11.
Another journalist, Rachel Ehrenfeld, in a thorough and devastating article on “Carter’s Arab Financiers,” meticulously catalogues Carter’s ties to Arab moneymen, from a Saudi bailout of his peanut farm in 1976, to funding for Carter’s presidential library, to continued support for all manner of Carter’s post-presidential activities.
For instance, it was the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), founded in Pakistan and fronted by a Saudi billionaire, Gaith Pharaon, that helped Carter start up his beloved Carter Center.
”Evidently, the millions in Arab petrodollars feeding Mr. Carter’s global endeavors, often in conflict with U.S. government policies, also ensure his loyalty.”
It is particularly disturbing that a former president who has accepted dirty blood-money from dictators, anti-Semites, Holocaust deniers, and supporters of terrorism should try to deflect attention from his own conflicts of interest by raising the oldest canard in the sordid history of anti-Semitism: namely, that Jews have dual loyalty and use their money improperly to influence the country they live in, in favor of the country to which they owe their real allegiance.
Illini 07:
If your refering to GW, that ‘BUMBLING IDIOT’ is the most pro Israeli President ever!!
TO PRESIDENT CARTER YEMACH SHMO,
I HEARD THE NETUREI KARTA IS LOOKING FOR A NEW LEADER, PLEASE GO AND THEN WE WON’T BE SUPRISED WHEN YOU RANT AND RAVE LIKE A NETUREI KARTA LOOOOOONETIC, YOU WOULD FIT IN JUST RIGHT, YOU BOTH DESPISE ISRAEL AND THE JEWS…..