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10:10 AM ET

Segment Topic:

Would there have been a Reagan Presidency without a prior Carter Presidency?

Did the failed hostage rescue plan doom Carter politically?

Was Carter targeted because he was a Washington outsider, like Trump?

Panelist:

Jeffrey Lord

Jeffrey Lord, Former advisor to President Ronald Reagan, Associate Editor of the American Spectator, frequent contributor for Newsmax and host of the Word of the Lord Podcast and a very good friend to this radio program.

10:35 AM ET

Segment Topic:

• The Jimmy Carter Presidency, how do you remember it?
  • Runaway Inflation?
  • Mortgage rates
  • Gasoline lines?
  • Weakness abroad?
  • Iran?
  • Soviet expansionism (Afghanistan)?
  • Panama Canal giveaway?
  • Camp David Accords?
  • Malaise speech in 79?

Panelist:

• The Producers

11:10 AM ET

Segment Topic:

• • Medical condition/concerns with Netanyahu?
  • How do Israelis’ feel about Jimmy Carter – more than 40+ years since the Camp David Accords?
    • Was Carter an Anti-Semite?
    • Was Carter’s reluctance to bomb Iran in 1979 lead to the mess we have today?
      • Jonathan Feldstein latest opinion piece on Jimmy Carter:

Jimmy Carter Making Terror Great Again:

Ok Jimmy Carter died. Many will fill volumes writing now that he was a good guy, honest, smart, did some good things as president, and in his post presidency. Despite many of these things being true, to me Carter was an unrepentant anti-Semite who made excuses for Arab aggression and terror against Israel, and empowered the terrorists whose goal to annihilate Israel and the Jewish people are no less part of Carter’s legacy. For that alone and using the pulpit of his presidency in exile to spread these messages, I say good riddance.

As a failed one term president despite some achievements including helping to broker the Camp David peace agreement with Israel and Egypt, Carter’s abysmal policies vis a vis Iran left the US ally Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi overthrown by Islamists, himself dying in exile, paving the way for the Islamic Republic regime  to take over Iran which it has hijacked for the past 46 years. The Iranian hostage crisis was an example of Carters weakness and underscored by the fact that the hostages were released the day Carter was out of office.

His ineptitude was on full display then and paved the way for the Iranian Islamic regime to become the world’s largest state sponsor of l terror. These are not mere words. Millions of Israelis and Iranians as well as Jews and others are still suffering as a result.

Even Carter suffered. Since 1981 he mourned the murder of his friend Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, gunned down by Iranian inspired Islamic terrorists. Nevertheless, rather than blaming the ayatollahs, Carter missed no opportunity to blame Israel for something.

Carter’s antisemitism was not only unrepentant but arrogant as if only he knew the truth, but his truth was a cocktail of distortions and fantasy, looking at the Middle East through a prism about how he thought things should be rather than how they were.

His book “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid” remains part of Carter’s antisemitic legacy. He deliberately retained and justified his own legitimization of terrorism against Israel despite being called out as such, offering no apology, no correction, no recall: just a playbook about why killing Jews was OK.

Carter wrote, “It is imperative that the general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups make it clear that they will end the suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism when international laws and the ultimate goals of the ‘Roadmap’ for peace are accepted by Israel.”

Basically: as long as Israel doesn’t do what Carter thinks it should do, terrorism against Israel will continue and is legitimate.

As for propping up the terrorists, Carter not only was among the first to give credibility to Arafat and the PLO, but also Hamas. One has to wonder if, like the terrorists, Carter thought the Hamas massacre of October 7, 2023, was indeed legitimate “resistance,” or if he ever reconsidered his flawed views. We’ll never know, but what we do know is that he never said the later. So, all we have to go by is his justifying and legitimization of terror.

Carter doubled down on his anti-Israel rhetoric and hate as a leading member of “The Elders,” a group of failed world leaders who colluded in multiple ways to continue his anti-Israel diatribe. The Elders were so antisemitic that one could even ask if they were the authors of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” or just devoted followers.

In 2009, Carter visited my neighborhood, Gush Etzion, where he surprised many my stating that in an eventual two state solution (creating a Palestinian Arab state in Judea and Samaria- the “West Bank” and Gaza), he did not envision that Israel would have to return places like this. “I never imagined that Gush Etzion would be transferred to Palestinian hands.”

Maybe he misspoke or was just making friendly chit chat, but the praise he received then for looking at the reality and not stringent black and white policies in which Israel was always to blame was short lived and not repeated. He must have realized that legitimizing Israeli “settlements” in any way complicated his notion that it was still OK for Palestinian Arab terrorists to kill us.

Carter repeatedly blamed he Jews both for voting for Ted Kennedy in his unprecedented primary campaign against a sitting president, and then losing to Ronald Reagan. To him the Jews were disloyal if not all powerful (i.e. Protocols). Unencumbered after living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Carter simply allowed his antisemitic tendencies to take prime time in his Emory University Carter Center.

It never escaped me on my visits to the Carter Center that many of the top donors were anti-Israel Arab leaders, raising the question as to whether Carter’s views were formed by his benefactors, or if the benefactors raced to lay the foundation for a place in which their views were at home with Carter.

As a student at Emory in the 1980s, where his failed presidency found refuge, I had several interactions with Carter, mostly lecturing in different classes. Yes, he was charming, and his soft-spoken demeanor lent one to think he was a good guy.

One day in 1988, I attended an event where he made public remarks following another trip throughout the Middle East where he had no problem cozying up to the original Assad dictatorship and other terror leaders. His public comments throughout the trip were a dizzying litany of anti-Israel comments, throughout the Arab capitals where he was feted, and when he was in Israel. Basically, he blamed Israel for everything wrong and the lack of peace in the Middle East.

During the question and answer, there was time for one question and my hand shot up.  It was the week of the anniversary of the Camp David accords, and I thanked him for helping to make that possible to which he responded with his big peanut smile. Then I asked him if, as a representative of Emory University, was it not academically disingenuous to travel the world and blame Israel for lack of peace while not holding the Arabs at least equally accountable.

His peanut smile turned to a scowl, and he began a tirade about how I was wrong, and Israel is to blame. I never had a former president get angry at me and “rip me a new one.”

It felt good not because I upset him, but because I called him out in public for his dishonesty and he had no good answer other than perpetuating his biased rate which was on full display.

Carter had been in hospice care for a very long time and his death was inevitable. From my perspective, long overdue. I ask myself why God gives people like this who have such evil in their hearts so many extra years. My only explanation, or rationalization, is maybe God was giving him a chance to repent, and Jimmy Carter needed that many more years to do so.

I’m not convinced that he did repent, and while it would be inappropriate to throw the baby out with the bathwater and suggest that he never did anything good, which would be dishonest, he was a failed one term president, and he did unambiguously call for and justify the terrorist murder of my people. That disqualifies him from sainthood or many of the other honors and memories that others are sharing and will share in the days to come.

At least in remembering his life, let us remember that he at least indirectly caused tremendous pain and suffering, and death for which building houses for poor people is no redeeming compensation.

Panelist:

• Jonathan Feldstein (from Israel)

  Jonathan is a respected author; he has worked tirelessly to bridge to gap between Jews and Christians and he is the President of the Genesis 123 Foundation.

11:35 AM ET

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