Jimmy Carter saw where Israel was headed. He was ignored.
The late president's 2006 book proved to be prophetic.
In the next paragraph, Carter offered a now unsettling warning about what form that violent resistance might take. He explained that Palestinian and Lebanese militants knew the value of a captured Israeli soldier or civilian. As a result, absent an Israeli commitment to peace, militants would have an incentive to obtain hostages. Israel would then respond with overwhelming and disproportionate force. But it likely wouldn’t be enough to destroy the hostage takers, Carter warned. After the bombs stopped falling, they would emerge more popular than ever.
Looks like he definitely knew what he was talking about.
and today's democrats are pushing further away from peace by escalating a genocide to create an even bigger apartheid state like carter warned us against.
I love how it always ties back to the Democrats. Whatever heinous world event we are discussing, someone pops up to say it is the Democrats’ fault, and them alone. Inflation? Netanyahu? Apartheid in Gaza since the 80s? Police brutality? Believe it or not, straight to Democrats. We have the best elections in the world because of enlightening folk like you.
Well, we didn’t get Democrats this time. You guys are about to get a catastrophic demonstration on the world stage about why blaming the Democrats for Netanyahu, and the US foreign policy since the 80s, can make things CATASTROPHICALLY worse if it also leads to the other guy winning the election.
americans are too propagandized to know that both the republicans and democrats will lead us to those catastrophically worse results because they both serve the same system whose inherent contradictions guarantees a descent into fascism no matter what.
the democrats' love for the trolly cart excuse blinds them to the reality of their fellow democrats increasingly not voting is a symptom of those inherent contradictions getting worse and that their steadfast insistence that they're the adults in the room only serves to enable the reality that carter warned them against.
I know people like to defend democrats with "BUT OTHER GUY" but this article is about a democrat, so discussing how the democratic party acts is relevant. If you haven't noticed, biden and the democrats have been sending additional billions in support of israel for over a year now.
Blaming this on Democrats is the most tone deaf response one could have. There are many countries involved.
Don't be the kind of American that thinks we own the world stage. It's not a smart look.
this is on capitalism and the democrats are only playing their role as controlled opposition for the current capitalist hegemon we call america.
it's on the world stage because all of the western capitalists kotow to the current hegemon and isreal is that hegemon's current colonial settler project complete with genocide of the natives and propaganda to keep everyone distracted; exactly like the predecessor projects in north america and australia and precisely what carter was trying to warn everyone about in this book.
the only smart look is waking up to all of it to see it for what it is; but the democrats are now saying that they lost this election because they went too woke despite already going to the right and i used to be a democrat too, so i can understand your choice to willfully keep your eyes closed to stay in solidarity with them.
Yeah. They're the bigger threat. Sure.
It's kinda wild to think that Carter was shunned as being too moderate with the state of the current Democratic party. Now, he'd be considered one of the most leftist members of the party.
