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The Respect Jimmy Deserves
Apr 21, 2015 | The New York Post
By Post Editorial Board
Jimmy Carter, America’s national scold and serial diplomatic meddler, is headed for the Middle East next month, no doubt to lecture Israelis that their only hope for peace and security is to embrace Hamas. -
Israeli PM, President Turn Down Jimmy Carter Visit
Apr 21, 2015 | The Christian Broadcasting Network
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin declined former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's invitation to meet with him during his visit to Israel, citing his anti-Israel stance. -
Netanyahu Snubs Jimmy Carter on Israel visit
Apr 21, 2015 | The American Thinker (Blog)
By Thomas Lifson
Jimmy Carter has been turned down flat by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin on his invitation to meet with those officials during his forthcoming visit to Israel -
BIBI DECLINES JIMMY CARTER MEETING OVER HIS ‘ANTI-ISRAEL,’ PRO-HAMAS VIEWS
Apr 21, 2015 | Breitbart
By Jordan Schachtel
Both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin have declined a request to meet former Democratic President Jimmy Carter when he is due to visit Israel in the next few weeks. -
Israeli Leaders Netanyahu and Rivlin Refuse Meetings With Jimmy Carter
Apr 21, 2015 | Algemeiner
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin declined requests for meetings with former US president Jimmy Carter, who is scheduled to visit Israel and the disputed Palestinian territories in early May, Israel’s Channel 10 reported Monday. -
Jimmy Carter Snubbed by Israeli Leaders on Upcoming Trip
Apr 21, 2015 | Forward
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected invitations to meet with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. -
President Rivlin And PM Netanyahu Say No to a Meeting with Former US President Carter
Apr 21, 2015 | Yeshiva World News
Both President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu have declined a request from former US President Jimmy Carter to meet with them. -
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Apr 21, 2015 | The New York Post
By Post Editorial Board
Jimmy Carter, America’s national scold and serial diplomatic meddler, is headed for the Middle East next month, no doubt to lecture Israelis that their only hope for peace and security is to embrace Hamas.
Most Israelis long ago stopped paying attention to Carter’s incessant and dishonest preaching about their “apartheid” state.
This time ’round, no one will even pretend to listen: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin have both turned down invitations to meet with Carter.
This isn’t mere personal pique: The decision to snub Carter was made after consultations with the Foreign Ministry and Israel’s National Security Council.
Rivlin actually met with Carter back in 2010 as speaker of the Knesset — and told him Israelis consider him a “Hamas supporter” who encourages terrorism. The description’s still quite accurate.
Truth be told, Israel should’ve declared Carter persona non grata years ago, and not just because of his unremitting hostility toward the Jewish State or his unabashed fondness for Palestinian terrorists going back to Yasser Arafat.
Refusing to cater to Carter is also a good way of reminding the world that the failed president, for all his public posturing (and Nobel Peace Prize ) is a private citizen with no actual standing.
He speaks for himself and only for himself, however often he presumes to represent the US government — as in 2012 when he welcomed the Muslim Brotherhood victory in Egypt’s elections.
Luckily for Carter, Israel is letting him visit Hamas-ruled Gaza — where he’ll no doubt find people eager to pretend he’s worth taking seriously.
http://nypost.com/2015/04/21/the-respect-jimmy-deserves/
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Israeli PM, President Turn Down Jimmy Carter Visit
Apr 21, 2015 | The Christian Broadcasting Network
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin declined former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's invitation to meet with him during his visit to Israel, citing his anti-Israel stance.
The two leaders announced their decision following consultations with the Foreign Ministry and the National Security Council, Israeli media reported.
Carter has never been a supporter of the Jewish state, but he's ramped up his anti-Israel rhetoric over the past several years.
During Israel's military incursion into the Gaza Strip last summer to stop Hamas rocket fire on Israeli population centers, Carter said Israel had "no justification in the world" for its actions.
He also leveled the playing field between Israel and Hamas by recommending the International Criminal Court at The Hague investigate both for war crimes.
Newsmax quoted Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who called his remarks "so obnoxious and so hypocritical and so typical" of him, saying he's "made himself irrelevant and tossed himself into the trash pan of history," adding that he'd "never met a terrorist he didn't like."
"He loved Yasser Arafat and hated every Israeli leader he ever met," Dershowitz said.
Carter also blamed Netanyahu for blocking progress toward a two-state solution.
Israel, for its part, approved Carter's request for a visit to the Gaza Strip again on this trip.
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2015/April/Israeli-PM-President-Turn-Down-Visit-with-Jimmy-Carter/
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Netanyahu Snubs Jimmy Carter on Israel visit
Apr 21, 2015 | The American Thinker (Blog)
By Thomas Lifson
Jimmy Carter has been turned down flat by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin on his invitation to meet with those officials during his forthcoming visit to Israel. Tamar Pileggi writes in the Times of Israel:
Both the president and prime minister declined the invitations after consulting with the Foreign Ministry and the National Security Council
A senior diplomatic official told Channel 10, which broke the news, that Carter is “a disaster for Israel,” and that all Israeli leaders should refrain from meeting the former president, due to his “anti-Israel positions.”
The official was also quoted as saying that while Netanyahu and Rivlin refused to meet with him, Israel had approved Carter’s request to visit the Gaza Strip.
Carter will reportedly arrive sometime in the next 10 days for meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
In his post-presidency, Carter has become a vocal critic of Israel and has met with Hamas, a terror group dedicated to the destruction of Israel.
Carter was the subject of much criticism in Israel over his 2006 book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” in which he wrote: “Israel’s continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Middle East.”
In 2013, Carter called on the European Union to label products from West Bank settlements, which, he argued, are illegal under international law, although he rejected a full economic boycott to pressure Israel over the settlements.
In a recent interview with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, he said Israel should to give up the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, while the Palestinians “make sure that they commit themselves without equivocation to the freedom of Israel to live in peace alongside them.”
I am glad that Carter will be paying a price for his extreme views, and I hope that Barack Obama will receive similar treatment once he is out of office.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/04/netanyahu_snubs_jimmy_carter_on_israel_visit.html#ixzz3Y11
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BIBI DECLINES JIMMY CARTER MEETING OVER HIS ‘ANTI-ISRAEL,’ PRO-HAMAS VIEWS
Apr 21, 2015 | Breitbart
By Jordan Schachtel
Both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin have declined a request to meet former Democratic President Jimmy Carter when he is due to visit Israel in the next few weeks.Jerusalem officials confirmed that Israel’s Foreign Ministry and National Security Council discussed the matter and decided it would be best that Carter’s request be declined. A senior official told Israel’s Channel 10 News that Carter is a “disaster for Israel,” and all Israeli leaders should follow suit and refuse to meet with the former Democratic Party leader.
During last summer’s war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, Carter advocated for the removal of the jihadi group from the U.S. list of terrorist organizations. Carter said during the war that there was “no justification in the world for what Israel is doing,” even as Hamas was firing rockets indiscriminately at Israel’s population centers and using its women and children as human shields.
Because of Carter’s radical viewpoint on Israeli-Arab relations, the Foreign Ministry recommended to the Israeli officials that the 39th president’s request be declined due to his “anti-Israel stance.”
In 2006, Carter published an anti-Israel book that accused Israel of being a racist state. His book, titled “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” talked about Israel’s supposed “continued control and colonization of Palestinian land.” The former American president has also endorsed the anti-Israel, radical BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) movement, which calls for the boycott of Israeli-made products.
While he was president, Carter presided over the 1978 Camp David Accords, which led to a 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize for agreeing to the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty, which continues to be upheld.
Although Carter established a meeting place for the two parties, Sadat’s unprecedented willingness to engage a Jewish State along with Israel’s prior military success were regarded as the two primary reasons for the treaty’s successful implementation. Sadat would later be assassinated by fundamentalists who sought to undermine the peace treaty with Israel.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/04/21/bibi-declines-jimmy-carter-meeting-over-his-anti-israel-pro-hamas-views/
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Israeli Leaders Netanyahu and Rivlin Refuse Meetings With Jimmy Carter
Apr 21, 2015 | Algemeiner
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin declined requests for meetings with former US president Jimmy Carter, who is scheduled to visit Israel and the disputed Palestinian territories in early May, Israel’s Channel 10 reported Monday.
The decision reportedly followed a recommendation by the Israeli Foreign Ministry that Carter, a harsh critic of Israel’s policies, be declared persona non grata in the Jewish state. The ministry recommended that no government official, on any level, meet with Carter. A foreign ministry official told the i24 news website that Israel’s National Security Council backed the foreign ministry’s recommendation.
Carter has repeatedly spoken out against Israeli policies concerning the Palestinian Authority, particularly in his 2006 book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, and took an ardent anti-Israel stance during last summer’s war in Gaza. He stated that there was “no justification in the world for what Israel is doing” during Operation Protective Edge and urged President Barack Obama to remove Hamas from the US State Department’s list of terrorist organizations.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/04/21/israeli-leaders-netanyahu-and-rivlin-refuse-meetings-with-jimmy-carter/
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Jimmy Carter Snubbed by Israeli Leaders on Upcoming Trip
Apr 21, 2015 | Forward
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected invitations to meet with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
The invitations reportedly were declined after consulting with the Foreign Ministry and the National Security Council, Haaretz reported Monday.
Carter, who reportedly will visit Israel in the coming weeks, has planned meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
The spurned invitation by Rivlin was first reported on Israel’s Channel 10.
An unnamed senior government official said the recommendation to not meet with Carter came over his “anti-Israeli stance” in recent years, including his strong criticism of Israel during last summer’s conflict with Gaza. Israel did, however, approve Carter’s request to visit Gaza.
Carter, who wrote a book titled “Palestine: Peace not Apartheid,” is a member of The Elders, an international group of elder statesmen who advance peace and reconciliation. Carter also has called for the labeling of goods that originate in the West Bank, and said that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was among the factors that led to the deadly attacks in January in Paris.
http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/306359/jimmy-carter-snubbed-by-israeli-leaders-on-upcoming-trip/
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President Rivlin And PM Netanyahu Say No to a Meeting with Former US President Carter
Apr 21, 2015 | Yeshiva World News
Both President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu have declined a request from former US President Jimmy Carter to meet with them. They explained Carter’s long record of being anti-Israel compels their decision to decline meeting with him. Carter plans to be in Israel in May, at which time he will be meeting with officials in the PA (Palestinian Authority).
Foreign Ministry officials’ have labeled the former US president persona non grata and told the media it recommends that no government official of any level should meet with him. Carter was granted permission however to visit Gaza during his stay in the area but he now understands that he is an unwanted guest among Israeli leaders due to his decades of statements and anti-Israeli policies on every possible occasion.
Yisrael Hayom added that the former president is also a known supporter of various initiatives seeking the labeling of Israeli goods produced beyond the Green Line as “Manufactured in the West Bank” instead of “Made in Israel”.
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/303027/president-rivlin-and-pm-netanyahu-say-no-to-a-meeting-with-former-us-president-carter.html#sthash.Zn7uo5r9.dpuf
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Links to Non-English Language Press
Apr 21, 2015 |
News02elf (German): http://02elf.net/international/rivlin-und-netanyahu-lehnen-treffen-mit-carter-ab-953840
Haber10 (Turkish): http://www.haber10.com/haber/610792/#.VTc8f_mUfrw
Halonoviny (Czech): http://www.halonoviny.cz/articles/view/37171625
Romania Actualitati (Romanian): http://www.romania-actualitati.ro/jimmy_carter_si_a_amanat_vizita_in_israel_si_in_teritoriile_palestiniene-75618
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