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The Malkin File
by Michelle Malkin
So much for Jimmy Carter's triumphal peace mission in the Middle
East. Like everything else he has done on foreign policy, the world's
biggest tool for jihad propaganda created yet another bloody mess. Quick
review:
After proclaiming that Hamas terrorists were willing to accept
Israel as a "neighbor next door," Carter's Hamas hug buddies flipped him
the bird. They gladly accepted the diplomatic legitimacy Carter's visit
conferred upon them, while clinging bitterly to their insistence on the
destruction of the Jewish state.
After laying a wreath in honor of the murderous Yasser
Arafat, Carter dutifully agreed to deliver a letter from kidnapped
Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit to his parents on behalf of the terrorists
who are holding him hostage. Shalit's father rightly jeered Carter as
nothing more than a postman for Hamas.
After Carter asserted that the State Department never clearly
opposed his trip, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pointed out that
she had explicitly warned him against meeting with Hamas. Not to mention
all those bold-faced, unequivocal headlines before the trip announcing
that "State Department opposes Carter meeting with Hamas chief" (USA
Today) and "Rice Criticizes Carter for Reported Meeting Planned With
Hamas" (Fox News).
What part of "Don't meet with the Jew-hating killers, you idiot!"
didn't Carter understand?
Article 13 of the Hamas charter is also as clear as day: "There
is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad.
Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of
time and vain endeavors."
Jimmy Carter's thick skull and moral myopia are an American
embarrassment and an American problem. But more precisely: Jimmy Carter
is a Democratic problem. He casts a long, feckless shadow over the party
-- and it will haunt the party through the Democratic National
Convention in August and beyond.
Carter is a Democratic Party superdelegate who will undoubtedly
seek a prominent role at the convention this August. But the party can
ill afford a diarrhea-of-the-mouth moment from their elder terror
apologist. The world is watching and listening.
Though he has not formally endorsed Barack Obama, Carter has made
enough positive noise about the campaign to send Iranian TV into
euphoria. The regime's media arm led with an item earlier this week
headlined, "Carter: Obama favorite worldwide." The news item quoted
Carter as saying that Obama is supported by "many people in Ghana,
Nigeria and Nepal. … World opinion is strongly supportive of Obama,
that's all we hear."
(Left off the list of legitimate world opinion, of course:
Israel.)
Despite Obama's milquetoast protestations of Carter's visit and
his technocratic disavowal of Hamas, Carter and Hamas are giving Obama
two thumbs up. (Obama's associations with anti-Semites like the Rev.
Jeremiah Wright and the Louis Farrakhan-cheerleading Rev. Michael
Pfleger give him all the cred he needs.)
Conservatives have mobilized to protest Carter's terrorist
shilling. GOP Rep. Sue Myrick called for his passport to be revoked;
Rep. Joe Knollenberg wants $19 million in taxpayer funding to be
withdrawn from his Georgia-based scholarly institution. But the
Sick-Of-Jimmy-Carter Coalition isn't just a Republican club. The Jewish
Daily Forward reports that "some liberal observers…worry that the elder
statesman may create headaches for the party at its nominating
convention in Denver."
Their angst is well placed. The question is: Will exiling
America's top Hamas apologist from the convention podium be enough to
dispel the shadow of surrender? Or, to paraphrase Obama, can the
Democrats no more disown Carter than they can disown the softheaded
liberalism at the party's ideological core?
Michelle Malkin is author of
"Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild." Her e-mail address is
malkinblog@gmail.com. |
