Jimmy Carter and Giving Into Terrorist Blackmail
Muslims and Arabs have been using money and terror to coerce the West for many decades, but it wasn’t until September 11, 2001 that the first American President, George W. Bush, finally said enough and confronted the terrorists and their allies head-on with full support of the American people. Unfortunately, it wasn’t long before American support for the War on Terror waned and once again the Democrats were in a position to buckle under to the Muslims and Arabs for reasons that have never been clear.
What has become clear in recent years is Jimmy Carter was the worst president in the history of the United States. And for decades the West left Israel flapping in the wind fighting Muslim terror by itself, even though the Muslims weren’t just gunning for the Jews.
Instead of viewing these issues through our eyes now, let’s consider how the Israeli leaders viewed such topics twenty years ago and see if Israel was wrong or just ahead of its time.
As a window into the 1988 Israeli mindset I will burrow into Moshe Arens’ head. You may remember Moshe Arens. Born in Lithuania in 1925 (in the same town where 55 of my relatives were slaughtered by the Nazis), he moved to the United States and then to Israel, where he served in the Knesset.
In 1981, Prime Minister Menachem Begin appointed Arens ambassador to the United States. In 1983 Arens replaced Ariel Sharon as defense minister. In 1984 Arens became minister without portfolio in the national unity government. In 1988 Yitzhak Shamir appointed Arens as foreign minister, a position he held until 1990, when Shamir appointed him defense minister again, a position he held until 1992.
In 1988, before the whole world knew what an anti-Semite Jimmy Carter was and is, Arens was interviewed by Merrill Simon (“Moshe Arens Speak Out”). When asked about President Jimmy Carter’s anti-Semitic and anti-Israel leanings, Arens said,
“As more and more of the facts on Camp David surface, including Mr. Carter’s own statements since he left the presidency, it is becoming very clear that Mr. Carter had a very strong anti-Israel bias.”
When asked why Israel was the only country fighting a war on Muslim and Arab terrorists, Arens replied,
“I wouldn’t say there’s no cooperation at all. Until very recently, all the Western countries were very hesitant about cooperating to an extent that would be effective in the fight against terrorism. Most of the Western European countries tried to make separate deals with the terrorists–in effect, giving in to terrorist blackmail–by trying to buy protection from them. Under the leadership of President Reagan, the Declaration of Tokyo–which spoke very clearly about cooperation in the fight against terrorism–was adopted by the leaders of the Western industrial nations. I hope that will be the direction that will be followed… in future years.”
Also check out: The Jimmy Carter Un-Presidential Library
