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By Robert E. Forman, Lakewood

Some people I know are wondering whether or not the 82-year-old former President Carter has acquired the early stages of Alzheimer’s (or the Dan Brown syndrome) since he continues to stand by a book whose basic premises are totally flawed and inaccurate. Just like an elderly man who won’t admit that he mentally incapable of driving, Carter seems to be an elderly man who is incapable of admitting that he and his book are horribly wrong.

According to a story on page 6A of the Sunday, Jan. 21, 2007 edition of the combined The Denver Post / Rocky Mountain News, apparently a number of critics have characterized Carter as being a liar, an anti-Semite, a bigot, a plagiarist, and a coward — and at least 14 members of his own advisory board to the Carter Center resigned to protest what they and others contend is a book that is unfairly critical of Israel.

And yet Carter has the lack of understanding to still claim that “Not one of the critics of my book has contradicted any of the basic premises...that is the horrible persecution and oppression of the Palestinian people and secondly that the formula for finding peace in the Middle East already exists.”

First of all, if there is any of this “horrible persecution and oppression of the Palestinian people” it comes mostly at the hands of the Palestinian people against themselves, by other Palestinians, by Arabs, by Persians and by other Muslims who have no desire to allow Palestinians to live or assimilate in lands that is not in “Palestine proper.” Jordan, for example, for many years had and has Palestinian refugee camps where Palestinians who fled “Palestine” over the years are kept. Jordan has absolutely no intention of allowing a large number of Palestinians to swell the populace of Jordan. And the same is true elsewhere in the Middle East.

And an “honest” critic of the Middle East would point out that the Jews and Christians in any other country in the Middle East other than Israel are under horrible persecution and oppression. Woe to any human being in Iraq, Iran or Saudi Arabia who even dares to convert from Islam to Christianity; death is the punishment for anyone who dares insult Allah by doing such a thing.

When Israel completely left the Gaza Strip, what was the first thing the Palestinians did? Did they make any attempt to improve their lives, to improve their situation, to improve their infrastructure, to show Israel and the world that they could be “good neighbors?” No, of course not; they lobbed rockets into Israel. And Israel had to respond. The Palestinians are their own worst enemy. Virtually any and all “horrible persecution and oppression of the Palestinian people” is as a direct result of what they themselves do to themselves.

Secondly, any contention on the part of Carter that “the formula for finding peace in the Middle East already exists” is Alzheimer’s wishful thinking if Carter truly thinks that the Palestinians, the Arabs, the Persians (Iranians) and Israel can and will coexist in peace and tranquility.

Hamas wants Armageddon.

Hezabollah wants Armageddon.

Iran wants Armageddon.

The Palestinians would prefer Armageddon over sharing Palestine with Jews.

Virtually every Muslim nation and every Muslim person in the entire world would prefer a Middle East without Israel if a Middle East with Israel means conflict and war with those who don’t want Israel in the Middle East.

And more and more non-Muslims throughout the world are slowly coming to the conclusion that a Middle East without an Israel “may” be the better long-term solution, since the only alternative seems to be a Middle East with Hamas, Hezabollah, Iran and everyone else who wants Armageddon to exterminate Israel and the Jews.

The “formula for finding peace in the Middle East already exists” is absolutely true from a Hamas, Hezabollah, Iranian and Quran point of view: It’s called exterminating Israel. The Bible calls it Armageddon.

The Oslo “Peace” Accord is not the Oslo Peace Accord according to the Muslims; it’s the Oslo Hudna Accord. A “hudna” is a “false peace” treaty Muslims make with non-Muslims. It is not binding and means absolutely nothing. A “hudna” goes back to Mohammed himself. That is what he did. He signed “hudnas” with his non-Muslim enemies to make “peace” until he was strong enough to defeat them in battle.

Carter can defend his book and his views all he wants to. But his book and his views are not based on the realities of the Middle East. They are based upon the wishful thinking of a silly old man who hasn’t a clue what the real stakes are. The very existence of Israel in the Middle East is an insult to the Quran and to Allah. Hamas knows that. Hezabollah knows that. Iran knows that.

The Palestinian people know it. And they will sign all the “hudnas” Carter and anyone else will come up with.

But, eventually, it will come down to the event Hamas, Hezabollah, Iran, the Palestinian people, much of the Muslim world, and most of the rest of the world will want: The attempt to exterminate Israel once and for all. The Bible calls it Armageddon. And there is nothing Carter can do to stop Hamas, Hezabollah, Iran and others from trying to exterminate Israel.

READER COMMENTS

After reading further about President Carter and his views about Israel and the Palestinians, I must retract what i said earlier. Carter is absolutely right in his assesment on Israel and their treatment of the Palestinians, furthermore Israel has or had ties to the brutal apartied system of South Africa and the diamond mines there and they would not divest. As far as i am concerned they are participating in the genocide in the Middle East.

You know, I use to think that Carter was a decent white man, but now I don't know. He sounds like an idiot meglomaniac like the rest of the Babylonians in this country.

Hamas may want Armageddon. Hezbollah may want Armageddon. Iran may want Armageddon. But fundamentalist Christians like Bush and his pals also want Armageddon-- because it is the only way that Christ is scripted to return. Only Bush and his pals have begun the process in the middle east today-- first with the Iraq war and again with the Lebanon bombing and coming soon with a war with the Iranians... I am a Christian. I understand that Armageddon is an unavoidable event-- predestined to bring about Christ's return. However I recognize that the person who actually starts the war that brings about Armageddon and the return of Christ is identified in the Bible as the Anti-christ. Therefore I will not give any support to our government's efforts to bring about Armageddon. When Christ does return-- I want to be on the right side of the conflict. The lake of fire holds no fascination for me...

"Sharing" Palestine with Jews? Do you think Israel is interested in that? Is that why it builds separate, for-Jews-only road networks? Is that why it exproporiates land to build Jewish-only settlements? Or denies Palestinians access to water? Or prevents Palestinian refugees from returning but opens the way for any Jew anywhere in the world to get instant citizenship, through the racist Law of Return? Tihs essay reeks of anti-Muslim bigotry .
It makes no sense to pretend that the slander aimed at Carter by the rabid pro-Israel cabal is fact, just because it is well-orchestrated.

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