ARABS BANKROLLING JIMMY CARTER

Carter: Follow the money; It’s not peanuts (DEMOCRACY PROJECT)

The Examiner’s editorial coins the word “ridiculosity” to describe former President Carter’s roundly chastised one-sided diatribe book against Israel, concluding:

Everybody is entitled to their opinion, just not to their own set of facts. That observation has particular relevance for Carter because, as Stein [highly reputed Middle East scholar, who resigned from Carter’s “think tank” over the sloppy inventions in Carter’s book] noted in his letter, “being a former president does not give one a unique privilege to invent information or to unpack it with cuts, deftly slanted to provide a particular outlook.”

Carter would do himself and his countrymen a favor by permanently resisting the urge to offer any further commentary on world affairs.

However, there’s little chance of that from Carter. The peanut farmer has been harvesting huge sums from Arab states and supporters to fund his activities. FrontPage exposes some of the money trail, and it’s not peanuts.

After all, the Carter Center, the combination research and activist project he founded at Emory University in 1982, has for years prospered from the largesse of assorted Arab financiers.

There’s literally tens of millions of dollars flowing from Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, and even a source that Harvard refused, and Carter’s “money laundering” scheme for Hamas.

Carter may still harbor illusions of grandeur, seeing himself as an instrument of peace in the Middle East. But an altogether different element explains his enduring popularity in Arab capitals: Not for all the millions they have sunk into the Carter Center over the years could Arab elites have hoped to purchase such a prominent and willing propaganda tool.

Ridiculosity, and avarice. It’s not peanuts propelling Carter's peanut brain.