Contrived removal of a president

Going up against Bush and Israel costly for Carter

- by John Hamer

EVEN as a ‘Council on Foreign Relations’ man, and despite all the attempted control imposed upon him, Jimmy Carter began to veer away from the course that the New World Order brigade had decreed on the very same day that he attained the office of U.S. President.

His first mistake was in firing the all-powerful CIA Director, George H. W. Bush, and 800 others in the agency. Bush had promoted many covert operations’ practitioners, aka ‘protected agents’, to the Justice Department and protected the former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director, Richard Helms, who was only given a fine and a suspended sentence for the heinous crime of deliberately lying to Congress.

Bush did not take this snub well — and he certainly did not forget it in a hurry either. But Carter’s biggest ‘mistake’ of all was to overtly act against the interests and the might of Israel and its power over American politics.

In 1977, Carter became the first American president to call for the creation of a Palestinian ‘homeland’. He signed the Camp David Accords, which established diplomatic relations between Egypt and Israel, and openly called for the self-governance of the Palestinian people.

After his presidential term, he authored several books on the conflict, including the controversially titled Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. As for Israel, the Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, was furious about Carter’s ‘highhanded’ actions at Camp David in 1978, which effectively forced Israel to trade the occupied territory of Sinai to Egypt in the peace deal. Begin feared that Carter would use his second term to bully Israel into accepting a Palestinian state on the West Bank that they considered part of Israel's ‘divinely granted’ territory.