CARTER AND OBAMA RELATIONSHIP

President #Jimmy Carter was a guest on #Morning Joe. In response to bring up a “sore spot” between him and President #Obama, one of the #Joe Scarborough sycophants asked why Obama does not seem to call him implying there is tension between them. President Carter’s response, though a bit convoluted, was enlightening. After reading his book and essays about all of the accomplishments of the Carter Center, I remember being impressed with the remarkable list of post presidency achievement. Then all hell broke loose with the 2006 publication of his book, Palestine: Peace no Apartheid. He had a large number of Jewish employees working at the Carter Center including along time aide; they all resigned en mass. I read the book in fact I studied the book, and was very impressed; it was the most accurate assessment of the festering Middle East problem I have ever read.  

To use a tired old trope, he “ripped the scab off a serious problem”, and did it in an understandable way: the Israelis would settle for nothing but complete dominance of the Palestinian people. They poked the Palestinian people with a sharp stick like a groveling, tied up dog; hungry, without water, and with out freedom or civil rights of any kind. Like the black people in Apartheid South Africa or the slaves in the United States pre Civil War. When the dog retaliated, time-after-time, with the help of the United States military and economic aid, they had goaded Palestine into war and every time, when the dust settled, the Israelis owned more Palestine land—the euphemism was building settlements.

Of course, the Jews were guilty and angry with Carter for being exposed, but also the book referenced an ugly truth in the United States, which was the power of the Israeli lobby. The “pro Israeli lobby” claimed exaggerated political power based on the concept that the #Jewish lobby was a monolithic voting block; ether a politician supported Israeli interests or the voters would not elect them. The Israeli lobby centered their apartheid policies toward Palestine on complete domination of their people, which is obviously against every thing American stands for and, in the eyes of most people; it is an immoral violation of human rights. The fact that all the Jewish employees resigned from the Carter Center show how narrow minded the Israeli lobby could be, which unfortunately resulted in a spike in anti Semitism in the United States.

The group dynamics of the employees at the #Carter Center suggests the most vociferous Israelis clustered there because of Carter’s obvious close association with the Middle East problem—Nobel Prize, etc. They wanted to be close to the action. In addition, there is obvious group dynamics among those employees; what one does, they all follow suite. The more radical Israelis in the United States hate Carter for his expose, and like the employees at the Carter center, are the ones in control of the Jewish lobby.  

  

Enter Obama onto the scene, a progressive president and in many ways with the same propensities toward peace that Carter had. Of course, apartheid policies are against everything American people support; therefore, Obama supports human rights for Palestinians but Obama is being cleverer than Carter was. He is achieving significant result in that troubled area of the world but like many other good thing Obama has done or is doing, they are not grabbing headlines; they are subtle but substantive. Iran’s has halted nuclear weapon production; Syria has no poison gas; and the Palestinian: Egypt peace accords remains in tact. As Jimmy Carter recognized this morning, if Obama publically allied himself with Carter’s policy toward Israel: Palestine, the “Israeli lobby” with the help of the media and #Sheldon Adelson money would have him carrying that cross to the top of #Calvary hill in minutes. Carter and Obama are on the “same page” toward solving the Middle East problem; that is what great president are expected to do!

  

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