British Journalist Blasts Carter, Blair, and Baker

From across the Atlantic come words of wisdom that are becoming a rarity in Europe. Melanie Phillips, a British journalist and author, provides some of the most insightful and sensible commentary that can be found anywhere on the news of the day.

The following article is found on Ms. Phillips' website at:

www.melaniephillips.com

In this article Ms. Phillips takes to task Jimmy Carter, James Baker, Tony Blair, and others on the world stage who blindly promote the cause of Islam while back-slapping the Jews.

'The ultimate exit strategy' by Melanie Phillips
Jewish Chronicle

While the rulers of Iran hold a conference to deny the Shoah as a prelude to the second Holocaust they threaten daily to perpetrate, the Jewish world is being subjected to intellectual terrorism on both sides of the Atlantic.

In America recently, I was sickened to find in pride of place in Barnes and Noble bookshops shoulder-high piles of Jimmy Carter’s book. The very title of this seasonal tome, ‘Palestine Peace or Apartheid’ with its cover picture of Israel’s separation barrier, is itself a grotesque incitement to hatred.

As thus advertised, the book itself is an odious farrago of outright falsehoods, distortions, selective omissions and hate-fuelled propaganda.

In Carter’s virulently distorted universe, Israel is to blame for the war with the Arabs. Israel stole land and money from the Palestinians; the ‘imprisonment wall’ is not a desperate measure to prevent the further slaughter of Israelis by Palestinians but a malevolent act against them; Palestinian violence is merely the response to Israeli crimes.

So comprehensive is this calumny that, after 23 years as Middle East Fellow of the Carter Center of Emory University, Professor Ken Stein has resigned in protest at a book which he has denounced as ‘replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments.’

In the Los Angeles Times, Carter dug himself even deeper into the hole. The attacks on his book merely proved the existence of a Jewish conspiracy to suppress debate about Israel. It would be almost politically suicidal, he claimed, for members of Congress to take a balanced position’ between Israel and Palestine.

Just how does one take a ‘balanced position’ between those who have waged a 60 year war of extermination and those who have tried to defend themselves against it?

But then, this is a man who actually writes of Israel’s behaviour that ‘in many ways, this is more oppressive than what blacks lived under in South Africa during apartheid’. He thus not only libels Israel with a demonstrable falsehood, but diminishes the actual horrors of real apartheid.

Among American Jews who overwhelmingly vote Democrat, there is widespread horror and embarrassment. Their quasi-religious belief in the Democratic Party as a bulwark against anti-Jewish bigotry has been exposed for the self-delusion that it is.

But almost simultaneously, something horrible crawled out of the Republican woodwork with the publication of the Iraq Study Group report chaired by James Baker III, a close adviser to President George W Bush’s father.

Baker, who is reported to have previously observed: ‘F*** the Jews: they don’t vote for us anyway,’ proposed a brilliant new wheeze for solving the pressing problem of what to do about Iraq.

This was to invite Iran and Syria, who are the instigators of much of the violence in Iraq, to discuss how they might care to help take it over altogether; and to whet the appetite of these vultures, Israel would be thrown at them like some kind of votive offering to the gods of war.

Only Israel was to be required to make any actual concession, by giving up the strategically sensitive Golan to its implacable enemy, Syria. The deal was therefore to be Iraqi ‘peace’ in exchange for Israel’s security.

And yet only Israel was to be excluded from a ’support’ network for Iraq that seemed to encompass most of the rest of the world. In the ISG universe, this world was clearly to be Jew-free; or at least, where the Jews would play one role only — that of global fall-guy.

This is because, to the ISG, Israel is apparently the core grievance driving the Islamic war against the west. Tony Blair says the same thing. Virtually every European government says it.

But it is completely ludicrous. What has Israel got to do with the war between Sunni and Shia raging in Iraq? Nothing. What has it got to do with al Qaeda’s atrocities in Malaysia, or the violence in Chechnya or Kashmir, or the Islamist genocide in the Sudan? Nothing.

Yet when Israel dares to protest, Peter Preston in the Guardian complains that Israel is getting away with ‘sabotaging’ the ‘wisdom’ on offer — because Israel is America’s ‘rogue 51st state’. While ‘floating on a sea of subsidy’ and twisting the US round its little finger, says this warped and twisted piece, Israel is killing the prospect of peace stone dead because all it really wants is more violence.

Ah, these wretched Jews. Even when they are being offered up as bait for their killers they have the gall to demur. Can’t they finally get it through their heads that their role in human history is to be the scapegoat of the world?

Now we know what the west’s Iraq exit strategy is to be. It’s Israel that will be making the exit.