Israel’s Secret Service Tells Jimmy Carter’s Secret Service Detail To Take A Hike..He’s On His Own
They have said no protection for you, you are on your own in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank:
Israel’s secret service has declined to assist U.S. agents guarding former U.S. President Jimmy Carter during a visit in which Israeli leaders have shunned him, U.S. sources close to the matter said on Monday.
Carter angered the Israeli government with plans to meet Hamas’s top leader, Khaled Meshaal, in Syria, and for describing Israeli policy in the occupied Palestinian territories as “a system of apartheid” in a 2006 book.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner, who brokered Israel’s first peace treaty with an Arab neighbor, Egypt, signed in 1979, met Israel’s largely ceremonial president, Shimon Peres, on Sunday but was shunned by the political leadership, including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Israel has also rejected Carter’s request to meet jailed Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouthi, who is seen as a possible successor to President Mahmoud Abbas, a spokesman for Carter said.
Why put the security detail in danger? Ed points out that:
It gives the State Department a little more leverage about Carter’s trip. They could use the danger into which Carter would lead the Secret Service as a means to ask the Department of Homeland Security to refuse to allow them to accompany Carter. Carter could choose to go without the Secret Service, but without Israeli security, it would present a huge risk ” and if he did go and got killed, it would be an explosive issue for the Bush administration.
I agree with that but part ways with Ed when he says “I think it sets a bad precedent. Cooperation in security should not be predicated on agreement of political policies. Jimmy Carter may be the worst ex-president in American history, but he is still our ex-president, and the Secret Service detail that accompanies him deserves Israeli cooperation.”
No Ed, Jimmy Carter deserves the Secret Service protection provided by our government, but no other. Our government has asked him not to do this, Israels government has asked him not to do this, and yet he is going to do it anyway. Now he can make the choice, but in no way does Israel have to cooperate with him!
April 14, 2008 - 12:27 PM on April 14th, 2008
Bwaaahahahaha! GOOD for them! Anyway, why does Carter need protection? The bad guys are his pals. He’s their main apologist and useful idiot! They’d never harm a hair on his stupid head…
April 14, 2008 - 12:41 PM on April 14th, 2008
Carter only proves why he was one of our worse presidents and why he only lasted one stay in the whitehouse THE PEANUT EATER KID is a complete idiot
April 14, 2008 - 01:45 PM on April 14th, 2008
Good one Pam!..Dhimma Carter is the most vile man on earth..what a hater!
April 14, 2008 - 10:02 PM on April 14th, 2008
Oh if we could only slip a few goobers into his food. He’s deathly allergic to the very crop that he used to raise. Hmmm… I wonder how hard it would be to convince the Mossad to slip him a few?
April 15, 2008 - 07:59 PM on April 15th, 2008
SW-E-E-E-E-T! Israel, is real! They got it right! You send a rocket at us, we send two bigger ones back at ya. OK SO NOW! WE should do the same. Stop this stuff, send a message anyone can understand.
We are number one and plan to stay that way, our way or the highway. tit for tat
April 15, 2008 - 08:05 PM on April 15th, 2008
carolyne- I don’t think we are trying to send a message that we are Number 1 and intend to stay that way, nor is it our way or the highway. There’s a right and wrong way to do things, we just happen to do things a bit better than others..
Israel has an arsenal of weapons pointed at her, what would you have her do?
April 15, 2008 - 09:12 PM on April 15th, 2008
I do agree Pam:
We in America are the number one greatest nation on earth, and we do need to stay that way and let me be a little clearer. If you come to our country you need to speak English, among other things and if you don’t like that you can hit the road to home. I think when we work for the American dream, we don’t need it taxed to the point we don’t enjoy the fruits of our labor. Our children that are Americans should come first in being educated, not the illegals, etc. I just put it in a general way, of tough love. We need to not have others run over us, and use us.
I clearly agree on Israel’s right to defend themselves, and so do we. I just like their quick style and grace.
BY THE WAY, DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT OBAMA IS ALLERGIC TO ?
April 16, 2008 - 07:09 AM on April 16th, 2008
Let me clarify my position on speaking English..You can speak your native language at home, but when you work or use a bank or go to collect welfare, or anything in public, speak English..The past immigrants that came to this country learned to speak English. Some continued to speak their native languages in their homes or neighborhoods, but they assimilated into the American society. The neighborhoods were steeped in the heritage of those living within it, because at that time, in larger cities, the areas were segregated(by choice) by country ie., Little Italy, German Town, Chinatown etc. It may have been “broken” English that was spoken, but god love them for trying..compare that to today, where we have illegals in this country that have been her for 5+ years that refuse to learn the language.
April 16, 2008 - 09:28 AM on April 16th, 2008
“BY THE WAY, DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT OBAMA IS ALLERGIC TO ?”
I really don’t know, but let me take a guess: The Truth?
After all, the truth is anathema for Leftism for so many reasons, it seemed like a good guess.