Israel Didn't Like Jimmy Carter - article by Robert Parry

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I have always counted 4 coup d'etat's in our lifetime (the deaths of JFK & RFK, the stolen elections in 2000 & 2004.)

I was never sure if October Surprise could be counted as a Coup D'etat - I wasn't sure if the meddling by Israel & the CIA - using connections in Iran - had the effect of definitively stopping Carter from getting a second term.

Anyway, regardless of how many coup's America has had in the last 50 years, a great article by Robert Parry.

Carter really believed in human rights, an outlook he brought to dealings with Israel.  Therefore, Israel hated Carter.  Simple.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/062410.html

"As the Official Story of the 1980 October Surprise case crumbles – with new revelations that key evidence was hidden from investigators of a congressional task force and that internal doubts were suppressed – history must finally confront the troubling impression that remains: that disgruntled elements of the CIA and Israel's Likud hardliners teamed up to remove a U.S. president from office."

"As for Israel, Likud Prime Minister Menachem Begin was furious over Carter's high-handed actions at Camp David in 1978 forcing Israel to trade the occupied Sinai to Egypt for a peace deal. Begin feared that Carter would use his second term to bully Israel into accepting a Palestinian state on West Bank lands that Likud considered part of Israel's divinely granted territory.

Former Mossad and Foreign Ministry official David Kimche described Begin's attitude in his 1991 book, The Last Option, saying that Israeli officials had gotten wind of "collusion" between Carter and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat "to force Israel to abandon her refusal to withdraw from territories occupied in 1967, including Jerusalem, and to agree to the establishment of a Palestinian state."

Kimche continued, "This plan – prepared behind Israel's back and without her knowledge – must rank as a unique attempt in United States's diplomatic history of short-changing a friend and ally by deceit and manipulation."

However, Begin recognized that the scheme required Carter winning a second term in 1980 when, Kimche wrote, "he would be free to compel Israel to accept a settlement of the Palestinian problem on his and Egyptian terms, without having to fear the backlash of the American Jewish lobby."

In his 1992 memoir, Profits of War, Ari Ben-Menashe, an Israeli military intelligence officer who worked with Likud, agreed that Begin and other Likud leaders held Carter in contempt."


Ben-Menashe is an Iranian Jew.  I wouldn't be surprised if the Americans in Iran were kidnapped in the first place, at the insistence of Israel, to create a wedge issue that could be used against Carter.

The hostages were released the day of Reagan's inauguration.

Maybe America has had 5 coup d'etat's in my lifetime.  6 if you count 9-11.