They say only the good die young, which doesn’t ring too true when we eliminate Hamas terrorists, for example. But
Jimmy Carter shuffling off
his peanut farm this mortal coil at the ripe old age of 100 definitely supports this contention.
True, he did some good things in his life – like brokering the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, signing of legislation in 1977 banning American corporations and individuals from complying with the Arab boycott of Israel, helping Iranian Jews and Soviet Jews fleeing their respective countries, and launching both the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and the annual National Menorah lighting ceremony, to name some. And it is only fair we recognize that.
But this legacy was tarnished by not just his failed policies regarding Iran, which paved the way for the Iranian revolution and the death and destruction for which the Iranian regime has since been responsible. In 2006, he published his book
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, a highly distorted account of the Arab-Israeli conflict blaming all Middle East woes solely on Israel, and seemingly justifying terrorism against Israel. As a part of “the Elders” (or as I called them, the Elders of Moron), he would constantly slam Israel while
pimping for
Hamas, something that aged about as well as Carter himself.
Carter's legacy was tarnished, not just by his failed policies regarding Iran, but also his views on Jews and Israel.
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