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“AIPAC is not dedicated to peace. They're dedicated to inducing maximum support in America, the White House, the Congress, and the public media for whatever policies the Israeli government has..” — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter tried to warn us
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![JAMES EARL CARTER, the 39th US President who was born on 1 October 1924 and made history as the first centenarian former US President when he celebrated his 100th birthday on 1 October 2024, died yesterday. A story that is well documented in academic literature but which remains largely untold in the popular media is how Carter was instrumental in the Lancaster Constitutional Talks that paved the way for Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980; and how he was a friend of Zimbabwe, something rather odd to say about a white former US President. But Jimmy Carter was one of a kind. His influence behind the Lancaster Constitutional Talks for Zimbabwe’s Independence was much more pronounced and even more significant than that of Margaret Thatcher. It is in this context that Carter sent a top level team of negotiators from his administration led by his UN Ambassador Andrew Young and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, to work with Thatcher’s conservative government to push for a settlement of the Rhodesian opprobrium at the Lancaster House talks. Carter understood not only the racist catastrophe in Ian Smith’s Rhodesia but also the brutal racism in apartheid South Africa, which he later addressed more forcefully after he left office, as he began to connect the evils of apartheid South Africa with the evils of apartheid Israel. Carter’s administration started working on Zimbabwe soon after he assumed office in January 1977, when he made the facilitation for an independent Zimbabwe a high priority of his foreign policy. In 2000, Carter – whom international relations experts and historians credit for the Camp David Accords, remarked that, "what most people don't realize is, I spent more time on Zimbabwe than I did the Middle East." In a widely quoted media briefing, Carter explained that the basis of the motivation behind his approach to African affairs were his received and lived encounters with the persecution that blacks suffered in the US, saying: “I felt a sense of responsibility and some degree of guilt that we had spent an entire century after the Civil War still persecuting blacks, and to me the situation in Africa was inseparable from the fact of deprivation or persecution or oppression of Black people in the South.” In 2007 journalist Amy Goodman, had an enduring interview with Jimmy Carter in which he unambiguously described Israel as an apartheid state, and gave an explanation which rings particularly true today on why public policy and public opinion in the US are hostage to the racist and now genocidal whims and caprices of the Israeli government. Attached is a video clip of Carter’s compelling interview and verbatim transcript below: Jimmy Carter: The word apartheid is exactly accurate. This is an area that’s occupied by two powers. They’re not completely separated. The Palestinians can’t even ride on the same roads that Israelis have created or built in Palestinian territory. So, with Palestinian territory they’re absolutely and totally separated; much worse than they were in South Africa, by the way. And the other thing is the other definition of apartheid is one side completely dominates the other, and the Israelis completely dominate the life of the Palestinian people. Amy Goodman [Journalist]: Why don’t Americans know what you have seen? Jimmy Carter: Americans don’t want to know, and Israelis don’t want to know what is going on inside Palestine. It’s a terrible human rights persecution that far transcends what any outside would imagine. And there are powerful political forces in America that prevent any objective analysis of the problem in the Holy Land. I think its accurate to say that not a single member of Congress with whom I’m familiar would possibly speak out and call for Israel to withdraw to their legal boundaries or to publicize the plight of the Palestinians or even to call publicly and repeatedly for good faith peace talks. There hadn’t been a day of peace talks now in more than seven years. So, this is a taboo subject, and I would say that if any member of Congress did speak out as I have described, they would probably not be back in the Congress the next term. Amy Goodman [Journalist]: Who are these forces that you are talking about? Jimmy Carter: Well, there’s an inherent commitment in America, which I share as a Christian, of a deep commitment to make sure that Israel is safe, and that Israel is free; and that they can seek for peace. So there’s a strong inclination for all of us to support Israel’s continued existence in peace. And that is added onto by the very effective work of the American-Israel group, AIPAC, which is performing its completely legitimate task of convincing Americans to support the policies of the Israel government. And AIPAC is not dedicated to peace, they are dedicated to inducing the maximum support in America in the White House, in Congress and in the public media for whatever policies the Israeli government has at a particular time; and they’re extremely effective!](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1873820821929754874/ext_tw_video_thumb/1873817043146858496/pu/img/YEO52mFuExUEB1lo.jpg)
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