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President
Jimmy Carter is personally responsible for the Iranian
crisis.
(See Carter’s Arab connections bellow)
By
Holocaust survivor,
Solly
Ganor
There are
many outraged articles and letters against Carter’s
book, calling Israel an Apartheid state. Professor Allen
Dershowitz is especially lucid in his explanation of
what makes Carter’s book a pack of half-truths
and outright lies.
Yet among all the protest there is no one who touches
on the point of Jimmy Carter’s disastrous political
ineptness on the Iranian crisis of 1979. Our memories
are simply short.
Jimmy Carter
was the most inept and cowardly president the United
States had the misfortune to vote into the office.
The present situation we face against the Iranian Mullahs
is mostly due to Jimmy Carter. On November 4 1979, the
Iranian revolutionary guards stormed the US embassy.
63 diplomats were humiliated, their eyes tied as they
were taken hostage.
Ayatollah Khomeini, who had ousted the Shah of Iran,
expected a violent reaction from the US, and was ready
to release the American diplomats as soon as the US
would begin to flex their muscles. Instead, to the their
surprise, and the surprise of the whole world, goody-goody
Jimmy Carter meekly asked for their release of the diplomats
on humanitarian grounds! Not only the Iranians, but
also the whole world were speechless at Carter’s
cowardly behavior.
By international standards the US had all the reason
to declare war on Iran.
The American
diplomats were kept as hostages 444 days!
It was an obvious ‘Casus Belli’ and any
American president except Jimmy Carter would have used
that as an excuse to get rid of the dangerous new Iranian
regime. It would have been fairly easy to do, because
at the time the Iranian army was still headed by officers
who supported the Shah. The Iranians, with the exception
of the revolutionary guards, wouldn’t have interfered
in the war.
Finally Jimmy Carter attempted to stage a half hearted
rescue attempt to free the hostages which ended in disaster
Eight servicemen were killed in that attempt.
The rescue attempt was given the code name of ‘Operation
Eagle’s Claws’, which was later known as
‘Operation Chicken Claws.’
It needed a strong president to make that vital decision;
instead we had a weakling like Carter. The event was
similar to the historic blunder the French and the British
made when they didn’t confront Hitler in 1936
when the German army occupied the demilitarized zone
in the Rhinland. It breached the treaty of Locarno.
Hitler took a big gamble, as his army was not equipped
at the time to confront a half a million French soldiers,
let alone the British. It was estimated that the French
alone could have defeated Hitler’s army in a week
or two.
But the inept and cowardly leadership of the French
and the British brought upon us the disaster of World
War Two.
To those
who say, ‘Surely the Iranians can not be compared
to the mighty German army.’
I would say let us not forget that the Mullahs of Iran
wouldn’t hesitate to use their atomic weapons
once the have it because death doesn’t mean the
same thing that it means to us.
If any one doubts this statement I can name you thousands
of cases of Islamic suicide bombers all over the world,
not forgetting the attack on the US on 9/11.
Not long ago the Iranian television showed thousands
of young Iranians signing up to become suicide bombers
when it will be required from them. There is no lack
of the same all over the Islamic world.
Those who can’t comprehend that simple fact should
better wake up.
Therefore,
I can say with confidence that today we are facing a
similar situation against the Iranians thanks to Jimmy
Carter.
Herzelia,
Israel
December
22, 2006
PS To understand
what feeds former president Jimmy Carter's anti-Israeli
frenzy, look at his early links to Arab business. Between
1976-1977, the Carter family peanut business received
a bailout in the form of a $4.6 million, "poorly
managed" and highly irregular loan from the National
Bank of Georgia (NBG). According to a July 29, 1980
Jack Anderson expose in The Washington Post, the bank's
biggest borrower was Mr. Carter, and its chairman at
that time was Mr. Carter's confidant, and later his
director of the Office of Management and Budget, Bert
Lance.
At that time,
Mr. Lance's mismanagement of the NBG got him and the
bank into trouble. Agha Hasan Abedi, the Pakistani founder
of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI),
known as the bank "which would bribe God,"
came to Mr. Lance's rescue making him a $100,000-a-year
consultant. Abedi then declared: "we would never
talk about exploiting his relationship with the president."
Next, he introduced Mr. Lance to Saudi billionaire Gaith
Pharaon, who fronted for BCCI and the Saudi royal family.
In January 1978, Abedi paid off Mr. Lance's $3.5 million
debt to the NBG, and Pharaon secretly gained control
over the bank.
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