Jimmy Carter, menace

All of these links fell in my inbox in the last day or two, and they do a nice job of setting up the end of the state of Israel.

First, take a look at this American Thinker piece on Jimmy Carter’s latest book.

It is not difficult to understand why Democrats wanted the publication of Jimmy Carter’s slim new book (216 pages of text, large print and no footnotes), with its tendentious title and its superficial analysis, delayed until today, a week after the election. The anti-Israel bias is so clear, the credulous description of Arab positions so cringe-producing, the key “facts” on which Carter relies so easily refuted by public documents, that the book is an embarrassment to Carter, the Democrats, the presidency and Americans.

Read the whole, gory thing. The sum is, former President Carter, great friend of Michael Moore and credulous Arabist, has written a tome full of half-truths and nonsense about Israel and the Middle East problem. Carter takes a side, and it’s not the side of the only thriving democracy in the Middle East.

Once you’ve read that, ponder this:

As Palestinian Arab rockets struck two Israeli towns yesterday, U.N. bodies prepared to launch no fewer than two overlapping “fact-finding” missions to second-guess Israel’s anti-terrorist tactics. President Carter could head one of those missions.

The U.N. General Assembly is expected to convene a special emergency session tomorrow to deal with the November 8 Israel Defense Force artillery strike on the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, which killed 19 civilians. A draft resolution for the assembly session calls on the U.N. secretary-general to establish a fact-finding mission into the event and requests that he report back to the assembly in a month.

And yesterday in Geneva, the U.N. Human Rights Council, which in its five months of existence has failed to pass one resolution on any country other than Israel, concluded its third emergency session on the Jewish state. In the session’s resolution, the council called on its president, Ambassador Alfonso de Alba of Mexico, to establish a fact-finding mission to investigate the incident at Beit Hanoun.

A diplomat in Geneva who requested anonymity said the sponsors of the resolution are planning to ask Mr. Carter to head the investigation. Other candidates include the diplomats Martti Ahtisaari of Finland and Sadako Ogata of Japan.

The opening sentence of that article tells it all–the Palestinians can’t build rockets without outside help. Where is that help coming from? Why doesn’t the UN investigate that? What would Jimmah do?

Such an investigation would turn over such a huge rock it might start a world war. Iran and Syria, along with probably two or three other Islamic states, are supplying and re-supplying the terrorists in the PA and in southern Lebanon. You can bet Carter’s investigation won’t go there, though. He’s too busy being credulous in the face of terrorists. Returning to the American Thinker article:

“When I met with Yasir Arafat in 1990, he stated, ‘The PLO has never advocated the annihilation of Israel. The Zionists started the ‘drive the Jews into the sea’ slogan and attributed it to the PLO. In 1969, we said we wanted to establish a democratic state where Jews, Christians, and Muslims can all live together. The Zionists said they do not choose to live with any people other than Jews’

“When I asked Arafat about the purposes of the PLO, he seemed somewhat taken aback that I needed to ask such a question. He gave me a pamphlet that stated, “The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is the national liberation movement of the Palestinian people….”

The Zionists made them do it! And this libel, Carter passes off whole.

Now, for dessert. Here’s what the Iranians, whom the UN treats with kid gloves, are doing:

TEHERAN – Iran has donated $120 million to the Palestinian Hamas-led government and has said it is ready to give more, Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar said on Thursday.

Iran said in April it would donate $50 million to help make up a shortfall left when the West cut off aid to the government led by the Palestinian Islamic group, which seeks to destroy Israel.

”Iran has so far given $120 million to the Palestinain government and they have told us that they will provide more financial help,” Zahar told reporters in Teheran after talks.

Iran’s Islamic government has never recognised Israel and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad peppers his speeches with anti-Israel remarks. Last year, he called for Israel to be ”wiped off the map”.

Iran’s president didn’t just pledge to wipe Israel off the map last year. Editorials in the Iranian press called for the very same thing this week:

“On that day… Jordan will not be able to prevent the Jordanian Islamists from operating through the long Jordan-Palestine border, and the millions of Egyptian Islamists… will not let the Sinai-Israel border remain quiet, and the Syrian Golan Heights will not remain as a [mere] observer of the battle. That day is not so far off.”

Resalat: “The Great War is Ahead of Us, [And Will Break Out] Perhaps Tomorrow, or in Another Few Days, or in a Few Months, or Even in a Few Years… Israel Must Collapse”

Where are Carter and the UN on that?

All while Hezbollah is reportedly just waiting on the green light to topple Lebanon’s democratic government:

The recent Democratic takeover of the U.S. Congress emboldened Syria, Iran and Hizballah (Iran’s proxy) because they view it as the defeat of President Bush, said Walid Phares, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

Even before the U.S. elections, Hizballah’s political faction was demanding more power in the Lebanese government. Earlier this week, six pro-Syrian members of the 24-seat Lebanese cabinet, including all of the Shi’ite members, resigned.

Hizballah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said on Monday that the current Lebanese government would “go” and a new one would take its place. He did not say how that would happen, but his statement seemed to signal that Nasrallah will call for massive street protests — as he threatened to do last month.

Toppling Lebanon in favor of Hezbollah would set the stage for an all-out war against Israel very nicely, from an Iranian point of view. Lebanon would convert from Syrian parking lot to Iranian forward base.

Again, where is Jimmy Carter on that?

Revisions and Extensions: It turns out that the Palestinians in Gaza do build their own rockets. It also turns out that the advanced C-802 missiles that Hezbollah used against the Israeli navy in the 33-day war this past summer were export models of a Chinese rocket, sold to Iran and then handed off to Hezbollah. Both of those nuggets and a few others are here.

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