Carter Calls on EU to Label Products from 'Illegal Settlements'

[Dan193]

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/167951#.UZANTqI3uSo
Carter Calls on EU to Label Products from 'Illegal Settlements'
Former US President Carter has called on EU to “introduce proper labeling of goods produced on illegal Israeli settlements.”
Arutz Sheva
5/12/2013

Former US President Jimmy Carter has once again expressed his blatantly anti-Israel allegiances by calling on the European Union to “introduce proper labeling of goods produced on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.”

Carter was in Dublin together with former Irish president Mary Robinson and former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso for talks with Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Eamon Gilmore and diplomats from some 20 European countries on revitalizing the peace process in the Middle East.

“With the Middle East peace process making no significant progress, we call on Europe to play a stronger and more independent role in revitalizing peace efforts, with a fresh approach,” Carter said, according to the European Jewish Press (EJP).

“The EU has repeatedly condemned settlement expansion in the West Bank. It could therefore introduce a clear labeling of products made in Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law,” he added.

Ireland currently holds the rotating EU presidency until end of June.

Robinson claimed the move was not “anti- Israel,” but rather “a concrete step, supported by many of our Israeli friends, to revive the hope of a future state of Palestine and safeguard the two-state solution before it is too late,” EJP reported.

She noted that several European countries have already introduced such labeling systems.

“People throughout Europe, in their capacity as consumers, have the power to reignite hope in the Middle East,” she said. “As Israel’s largest trading partner, the EU could send a strong signal by introducing clear, EU-wide labeling guidelines.”

Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore said Ireland would strongly support a European initiative to label Israeli settlements products “to give consumers the choice of whether they want to buy them.”

Carter said he was “very encouraged” by the response of the European diplomats at the meeting.

“They all said they were very eager to demonstrate to the world that the 1967 borders were intact, and were almost sacred, and that any intrusion by Israel into Palestine to build settlements was illegal,” he said, according to EJP.

1. Dhimmi Carter can go to hell.
Wise Saba, Western Negev (12/5/13)

2. How much is this anti-semitic bum being paid by Arab sources (n.c)
Reuven, (12/5/13)

3. *Comment deleted. Direct insults are unacceptable. (n.c)
Dr. Steven, NY (12/5/13)

4. What like peanuts grown on land stolen from Indians? (n.c)
Truth Hertz, UK (12/5/13)

5. If Israel doesn't have the guts to say the "settlements" are
NU, Israel (12/5/13)

6. "comments from the peanut gallery"
Michael Hessler, Ma'ale Adumim (12/5/13)

7. Jimmy Carter
Eli, Jerusalem (12/5/13)

8. Should join his brother Billy in the Hall Of Shame! (n.c)
, (12/5/13)

9. Mr. Carter have health problems we don't have to listen !
Samy, Canada (12/5/13)

10. Give it your best shot, Satan
Yeriel Even-Pinah, Beit Nekofa (12/5/13)

11. Is this creap still alive???
Mike, Boston (12/5/13)

12. Jimmy Carter
Paul, Tucson (12/5/13)

13. former U.S. president,bored ,nothing else to do?At least
hershel, Jerusalem (12/5/13)

14. Carter's meddling
gregg bowman, Parksville (12/5/13)

15. Typical Carter
Shimon, Cincinnati (12/5/13)

16. Jimmy Carter You Jerk
Jerry Fogel, Providence, RI (12/5/13)

17. Old antisemites never fade away, they simply die out.
Dov Ben Yakov, us (12/5/13)

18. Carter should label every statement "bought by Saudi Arabia"
Carmit, (12/5/13)

19. Reminder
Jerusalemite, Jerusalem (12/5/13)

20. That peanut brain, he needs to get his nose
Lilian, Kfar saba (12/5/13)

21. My thoughts about this exprez wouldn't pass A7's standards
ROGER, MINNEAPOLIS MN (12/5/13)

22. Dear Jimmy...
S.Friedman, Bet Shemesh (12/5/13)

23. YU Honored him
David A., Chicago (12/5/13)

24. what hope does the UE wantd to ignite if not the demiss of
Josiane, Maale Adumim (12/5/13)

25. Uccupier Carter hypocrite
American occupier, GA, Occupied Indian land (12/5/13)

26. Carter Calls on EU to Label Products from 'Illegal Settlemen
George Weiss, Teaneck, USA (12/5/13)

27. *Comment deleted. Direct insults are unacceptable. (n.c)
Wally, (12/5/13)

28. Time to call his bluff
Arnold, Montreal (12/5/13)

29. This is for what purpose? So Europeans
, (12/5/13)

30. Vicious nobody who wants to keep in the news
, (12/5/13)

31. Kakar
, Winnipeg (12/5/13)

32. Carter has no business telling others to boycott Israel.
Tim, nc (12/5/13)

33. here we go again
jon c, philadelphia (12/5/13)

34. Looking at his age, he is close to getting his eternal
carter is ugly, jerusalem (12/5/13)

35. What a Loser
Rachel Singer, Israel (12/5/13)

36. embarrassment
real vision, usa (12/5/13)

37. Please, tell me if I'm mistaking President Carter's remarks
Dwain, ColoradoSprings (12/5/13)

38. The only label I would give jimminy carter is : IDIOT ! (n.c)
Moshe, Usa (12/5/13)

39. You don't say!!
Persian , New York (12/5/13)

40. What a peanut brain! There are no illegal Israeli
,,,, (12/5/13)

[Dan193]

http://www.factsandlogic.org/outstanding_dershowitz2.html
Has Arab Oil Money Bought Jimmy Carter?
Ex-President for Sale: Carter’s Arab Oil Money
Alan Dershowitz
January 15, 2007

I have known Jimmy Carter for more than thirty years. I first met him in the spring of 1976 when, as a relatively unknown candidate for president, he sent me a handwritten letter asking for my help in his campaign on issues of crime and justice. I had just published an article in The New York Times Magazine on sentencing reform, and he expressed interest in my ideas and asked me to come up with additional ones for his campaign.

Shortly thereafter, my former student Stuart Eisenstadt, brought Carter to Harvard to meet with some faculty members, me among them. I immediately liked Jimmy Carter and saw him as a man of integrity and principle. I signed on to his campaign and worked very hard for his election. When Newsweek magazine asked his campaign for the names of people on whom Carter relied for advice, my name was among those given out. I continued to work for Carter over the years, most recently I met him in Jerusalem a year ago, and we briefly discussed the Mid-East. Though I disagreed with some of his points, I continued to believe that he was making them out of a deep commitment to principle and to human rights.

Recent disclosures of Carter's extensive financial connections to Arab oil money, particularly from Saudi Arabia, had deeply shaken my belief in his integrity. When I was first told that he received a monetary reward in the name of Shiekh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, and kept the money, even after Harvard returned money from the same source because of its anti-Semitic history, I simply did not believe it. How could a man of such apparent integrity enrich himself with dirty money from so dirty a source? And let there be no mistake about how dirty the Zayed Foundation is.

I know because I was involved, in a small way, in helping to persuade Harvard University to return more than $2 million that the financially strapped Divinity School received from this source. Initially I was reluctant to put pressure on Harvard to turn back money for the Divinity School, but then a student at the Divinity School—Rachael Lea Fish—showed me the facts. They were staggering.

I was amazed that in the twenty-first century there were still foundations that espoused these views. The Zayed Centre for Coordination and Follow-up—a think-tank funded by the Shiekh and run by his son- hosted speakers who called Jews "the enemies of all nations," attributed the assassination of John Kennedy to Israel and the Mossad and the 9/11 attacks to the United States' own military, and stated that the Holocaust was a "fable." (They also hosted a speech by Jimmy Carter.) To its credit, Harvard turned the money back. To his discredit, Carter did not.

Jimmy Carter was, of course, aware of Harvard's decision, since it was highly publicized. Yet he kept the money. Indeed, this is what he said in accepting the funds: "This award has special significance for me because it is named for my personal friend, Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al- Nahyan." Carter's personal friend, it turns out, was an unredeemable anti-Semite and all-around bigot.

In reading Carter's statements, I was reminded of the bad old Harvard of the nineteen thirties, which continued to honor Nazi academics after the anti-Semitic policies of Hitler's government became clear. Harvard of the nineteen thirties was complicit in evil. I sadly concluded that Jimmy Carter of the twenty-first century has become complicit in evil.

The extent of Carter's financial support from, and even dependence on, dirty money is still not fully known. What we do know is deeply troubling. Carter and his Center have accepted millions of dollars from suspect sources, beginning with the bail-out of the Carter family peanut business in the late 1970s by BCCI, a now-defunct and virulently anti-Israeli bank indirectly controlled by the Saudi Royal family, and among whose principal investors is Carter's friend, Sheikh Zayed. Agha Hasan Abedi, the founder of the bank, gave Carter "$500,000 to help the former president establish his center...[and] more than $10 million to Mr. Carter's different projects." Carter gladly accepted the money, though Abedi had called his bank—ostensibly the source of his funding—"the best way to fight the evil influence of the Zionists." BCCI isn't the only source: Saudi King Fahd contributed millions to the Carter Center—"in 1993 alone . . . $7.6 million" as have other members of the Saudi Royal Family. Carter also received a million dollar pledge from the Saudi-based bin Laden family, as well as a personal $500,000 environmental award named for Sheikh Zayed, and paid for by the Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates.

It's worth noting that, despite the influx of Saudi money funding the Carter Center, and despite the Saudi Arabian government's myriad human rights abuses, the Carter Center's Human Rights program has no activity whatever in Saudi Arabia. The Saudis have apparently bought his silence for a steep price. The bought quality of the Center's activities becomes even more clear, however, when reviewing the Center's human rights activities in other countries: essentially no human rights activities in China or in North Korea, or in Iran, Iraq, the Sudan, or Syria, but activity regarding Israel and its alleged abuses, according to the Center's website The Carter Center's mission statement claims that "The Center is nonpartisan and acts as a neutral party in dispute resolution activities." How can that be, given that its coffers are full of Arab money, and that its focus is away from significant Arab abuses and on Israel's far less
serious ones?

No reasonable person can dispute therefore that Jimmy Carter has been and remains dependent on Arab oil money, particularly from Saudi Arabia. Does this mean that Carter has necessarily been influenced in his thinking about the Middle East by receipt of such enormous amounts of money?

Ask Carter. The entire premise of his criticism of Jewish influence on American foreign policy is that money talks. It is Carter—not me—who has made the point that if politicians receive money from Jewish sources, then they are not free to decide issues regarding the Middle East for themselves. It is Carter, not me, who has argued that distinguished reporters cannot honestly report on the Middle East because they are being paid by Jewish money. So, by Carter's own standards, it would be almost economically "suicidal" for Carter "to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine."

By Carter's own standards, therefore, his views on the Middle East must be discounted. It is certainly possible that he now believes them. Money, particularly large amounts of money, has a way of persuading people to a particular position. It would not surprise me if Carter, having received so much Arab money, is now honestly committed to their cause. But his failure to disclose the extent of his financial dependence on Arab money, and the absence of any self reflection on whether the receipt of this money has unduly influenced his views, is a form of deception bordering on corruption.

I have met cigarette lobbyists, who are supported by the cigarette industry, and who have come to believe honestly that cigarettes are merely a safe form of adult recreation, that cigarettes are not addicting and that the cigarette industry is really trying to persuade children not to smoke.

These people are fooling themselves (or fooling us into believing that they are fooling themselves) just as Jimmy Carter is fooling himself (or persuading us to believe that he is fooling himself).

If money determines political and public views—as Carter insists "Jewish money" does—then Carter's views on the Middle East must be deemed to have been influenced by the vast sums of Arab money he has received. If he who pays the piper calls the tune, then Carter's off-key tunes have been called by his Saudi Arabian paymasters. It pains me to say this, but I now believe that there is no person in American public life today who has a lower ratio of real to apparent integrity than Jimmy Carter. The public perception of his integrity is extraordinarily high. His real integrity, it now turns out, is extraordinarily low. He is no better than so many former American politicians who, after leaving public life, sell themselves to the highest bidder and become lobbyists for despicable causes. That is now Jimmy Carter's sad legacy.

[Dan193]

Jimmy Carter an apologist for the butcher Assads.

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/12048
Assad’s Emails Hacked: Jimmy Carter Embraced Syria Regime before Obama [incl. David Lesch]
Gianluca Mezzofiore
February 9, 2012

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2013/04/jimmy-carter-called-hafez-assad-close.html
Jimmy Carter called Hafez Assad "a close personal friend" soon after 1982 Hama massacre
April 9, 2013
In February, 1982, Syria's president Hafez al-Assad murdered between 30-40,000 people in the city of Hama.

A year later, in March 1983, Jimmy Carter referred to the mass murderer as "a close personal friend" who he has a "special relationship" with. He expressed the hope that if Assad would come to the negotiating table, he could be on the same side as the Egyptians, Palestinians, Jordanians, and Americans in pressuring - Israel.

All of this was recorded in New York Magazine, June 6, 1983, and verified by Carter's friend and advisor, Kenneth Stein, who would later famously break with Carter over the lies he wrote in his 2006 book.

[Dan193]

Carter caught lying redhanded and refuses to retract his lies.

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2007/03/jimmy-carter-quotes-fake-mandela-latter.html
March 09, 2007
Jimmy Carter quotes fake Mandela latter to prove Israeli “apartheid”

From South Africa’s Business Today:
IS ISRAEL an apartheid state? Apparently Nelson Mandela thinks so. In a recent letter to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, Mandela lays out the case against Israel with unusual candour. Mandela’s words are now being quoted all over the world. Last month, former US president Jimmy Carter cited the letter in a speech at Brandeis University. And who’s going to argue with Madiba?

Unfortunately for Israel’s critics, the letter is a hoax. It is the creation of a man named Arjan El Fassed, who runs an anti-Israel website called The Electronic Intifada. El-Fassad has admitted that he made the whole thing up, but the Mandela letter has now entered the anti-Israel canon alongside countless other fictions. Yet, much like the Israel-apartheid comparison itself, it is completely spurious.
Read the whole thing.

While it appears that Fassed did not push this hoax, it shows volumes about Jimmy Carter’s devotion to truth that he quotes a fake letter that would only exist on anti-Israel websites.

[JTFenthusiast2]

To think this despicable, VILE hack was invited to Cardozo law school to speak.  What an absolute chillul Hashem!

[Lisa]

Why can't Carter just kick the bucket already?

[Dan193]

JTFenthusiast2, I totally forgot about that.
Yeshiva university honored Carter recently.
What next, Yeshiva university will honor Richard Falk and Noam Chomsky.

[JTFenthusiast2]

JTFenthusiast2, I totally forgot about that.
Yeshiva university honored Carter recently.
What next, Yeshiva university will honor Richard Falk and Noam Chomsky.

Are we sure they havent?  I wish I was joking

[Dan193]

It figures the Europeans are on Carter's side.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4372560,00.html
Jew hatred at UN schools
Op-ed: West Bank schools funded by US, Europe produce next generation of terrorists
Dan Calic
4/26/13

For decades the conflict between Israel and the Arabs has remained unresolved. Time and again efforts have been made to find a solution and bring peace between the two sides. While Israel has a formal peace treaty in effect with two neighboring countries - Jordan and Egypt, relations in each case fall short of expectations.
 
The nagging issue affecting a long sought comprehensive breakthrough is the possibility of a Palestinian state. In order to facilitate this both sides have to be committed to live in peaceful coexistence with each other. While Israel has made it clear it deeply desires peace with all its neighbors, including the Palestinians, can the same be said of the Palestinians?

nformation has recently come to light which suggests peace with Israel is not what they seek. In fact, their desire appears to be anything but.
 
A recently released video produced by the Center for Near East Policy Research examines Palestinian schools run by UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency). It reveals coexistence with Israel is not being taught to Palestinian children. Instead what they are learning is actually fomenting terror.

Click here to watch video
 
Created in 1949 specifically to deal with the "Palestinian refugees," UNRWA spends roughly $500 million each year on schools. It utilizes text books produced by the Palestinian Authority. The UN itself does not finance UNRWA. Primary financial support comes from US and European taxpayers.
 
A central theme in these text books is the so-called "right of return," which if allowed would eliminate the Jewish majority in Israel.
 
While other agencies work in Judea and Samaria, Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, the video indicates UNRWA is the only agency which actively supports the right of return, and teaches it in the classroom.
 
Footage shows young Palestinian school children beginning their day by shouting out, "Glory and eternal life to the martyrs and the righteous, Jerusalem is ours, we will liberate it."
 
Teachers who are interviewed readily admit the right of return is central to the curriculum taught to the children. One instructor indicates some teachers who are more religious teach their students "Israel must be wiped out." Students are also taught Israelis are "occupiers."
 
One headmaster, Alwad al-Keek, who taught in the school system for 23 years, worked for the terror organization Islamic Jihad, building bombs and Qassam rockets.
 
The video also indicates Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, one of the founders of Hamas,
was invited to speak at an UNRWA school. The purpose of his classroom visit was to lecture about suicide bombing and martyrdom. He was invited by the head of the Gaza teachers union. Yassin, the spiritual leader of Hamas, was killed in 2004.
 
Not even the youngest children are immune from being "educated" with the venomous curriculum. Two clips show children under 10 years of age talking about the need to kill the Jews. Another clip has a young student referring to Jews being the enemy of Allah, saying "we must kill all of them."
 
It probably wouldn't come as a great surprise if these schools were run by Hamas, since their views about seeking Israel's destruction are well known. However, UNRWA is a United Nations organization, which is being supported by American and European tax money.
 
The United Nations charter is meant to foster peaceful coexistence between all people. The theme of UNRWA, in all their publications, is “Peace starts here.” Yet inside these UNRWA classrooms peace is actually being sabotaged.
 
The US and Europe should give serious consideration to withholding financial support from the UN until UNRWA stops providing this blatantly anti-Israel curriculum which promotes jihad.
 
Young children are not old enough to fully understand the difference between right and wrong. They are impressionable and are molded by what they are taught. These "educational" institutions are not producing the scientists, businessmen or technology leaders of tomorrow. They are producing future generations of terrorists who grow up believing murder is holy. This guarantees the endless cycle of hate will continue. It's no wonder the conflict hasn't been resolved.
 
What does this say about the future prospects of peace? How much sense does it make to be talking about peace negotiations when terror is being instilled into the hearts and minds of tomorrow's Palestinian adults?

From a purely psychological perspective, teaching children that jihad is holy can only be described as institutionalized child abuse on a massive scale.
 
What's going on is not only a human tragedy, it's putting a dagger in the heart of all peace loving people.
 
I wonder if it's possible for UNRWA to be sued for promoting child abuse.
 

[Dan193]

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2813/norwegian_minister_admits_palestinian_incitement_funding
Norwegian minister admits Palestinian incitement funding
The Norwegian Secretary of State has stated on national television that Norway helps fund Palestinian incitement
The Commentator
February 27 2013