NEW YORK (Press Release) –The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday, Jan 14, strongly criticized comments made by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter suggesting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict helped motivate the terrorist attacks in Paris. ADL called President Carter’s views “divorced from the realities of the anti-Semitic and fanatical anti-Western beliefs” of the French terrorists.
In a January 12 appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, President Carter was asked by Stewart if he believed there was another factor – and not a religiously motivated belief – that inspired the kind of extremism seen in the Paris terrorist attacks. President Carter responded, “Well, one of the origins for it is the Palestinian problem. And this aggravates people who are affiliated in any way with the Arab people who live in the West Bank and Gaza, what they are doing now — what’s being done to them.”
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement:
President Carter continues to show his bias against Jews and Israel in his latest comments linking the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris. His on-air remarks were highly insensitive to the victims and their families, and his downplaying of the role of radical extremist Islamic ideology in the attack, and suggestion that other external factors were to blame, is divorced from the realities of the anti-Semitic and fanatical anti-Western beliefs of the perpetrators of the attacks in France.
At a time when Christians are being targeted for violence by extremists in Arab countries throughout the Middle East and hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians have lost their lives in Syria, President Carter used his appearance on the Daily Show to once again express his ossified perspective on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
While we agree with President Carter’s concluding analysis that the Paris attacks are a wakeup call in the fight against a ‘new evolutionary development in terrorism,’ ignoring the true root causes of these attacks by focusing on unrelated factors will ultimately prove counterproductive in international efforts to combat growing anti-Western and anti-Semitic extremism and terrorism.
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Dan Bloom, if you’re not being sarcastic you’re even more divorced from reality than Mr Carter.
But hey, my landsmen everywhere, Carter is correct. Don’t spam him. In fact, the Israel mess is front and center of this issue. Israel never should have been created as a state THERE in the middle of all that meshagus. Putting Israel THERE was a collosal mistake in 1949, the year I was born. We must admit it. Great country, great people, but it was put in the wrong place. That was no our land. We need to face reality and facts. Carter is right. 911 and Hebo and all this Muslim anger to West is centered in Israel being there. Sorry to say this sad tragic news but face up, friends. Don’t slam Jimmy. He is telling a truth we do not want to hear. I can deal with it because he is right. can you deal with it?
Dan Bloom, your one should grab up your rationale, and wonder why have you been born on planet earth, whereas you should have been born on planet Saturn.
Anyhow, it is an impossible mission to determine the greater of the two: Carter’s hatred and anti-Semitism or Dan-Bloom’s idiocy.
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PS: by the way: the modern State of Israel pronounced its independence on May 15, 1948 (Eyar 5, 5708), not 1949!, following 3800+ years of unbreakable bond of the root nation of the world – Israel -with its land: Eretz-Yissra’el – its one and only Land!
Danny, I think Yiftach Levy gets it right. But while Jimmy Carter is divorced from reality, you appear to have no sense of history. Let’s start with the exodus of Jews from Ancient Egypt to the ancient promised land. Who persecuted us next? The Philistines, The ancient Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Crusaders, the Spanish kings, Hitler, Stalin, Hamas, alQaeda, and the latter’s various offshoots. During all those many centuries, Jews were tied to the land that is now called Israel. And yes, this was definitely our land, and it will remain so.
I’d like to ask Jimmy Carter a question: “Imagine you can enter a time machine and go back 2,000 years. Would you blame the early Christians for the persecutions they suffered at the hands of the pagan Romans?”.