Ya gotta give Abu Jimmy credit for one thing, anyway. Once he was bought and paid for he stayed bought and paid for. Nobody's found the pictures of him in bed with Arafat yet but they'll turn up eventually. How different would the world be today if there'd been a man in the Oval Office in '79?

See all of my Speaking Frankly About Abu Carter posts in one place here.

Exclusive: Jimmy Carter Interceded on Behalf of Nazi SS Guard
by Ezra HaLevi (H/T: Allahpundit)

A former U.S. Justice Department official disclosed to Arutz-7 that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s advocacy extended beyond the Palestinians, when he interceded on behalf of a Nazi SS man.

Neil Sher, a veteran of the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigation, described a letter he received from Carter in 1987 in an interview with Israel National Radio’s Tovia Singer. The letter, written and signed by Carter, asked that Sher show “special consideration” for a man proven to have murdered Jews in the Mauthausen death camp in Austria. ...

The family approached several members of Congress. “The congressmen would, very understandably, forward their claims over to our office and when they learned the facts they would invariably drop the case,” Sher recalled.

But there was one politician who accepted the claims without asking for any further information.

“One day, in the fall of ’87, my secretary walks in and gives me a letter with a Georgia return address reading ‘Jimmy Carter.’ I assumed it was a prank from some old college buddies, but it wasn’t. It was the original copy of the letter Bartesch’s daughter sent to Carter, after Bartash had already been deported.

“In the letter, she claimed we were un-American, only after vengeance, and persecuting a man for what he did when he was only 17 and 18 years old.

“I couldn’t help thinking of my own father who returned home with shrapnel wounds after he joined the U.S. Army as a teenager to fight the Nazis and hit the beaches at Normandy at that same age on D-day.

“On the upper corner of the letter was a note signed by Jimmy Carter saying that in cases such as this, he wanted ‘special consideration for the family for humanitarian reasons.’ ...

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Scott Johnson has his doubts about the Sher story. Click here.

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Dershowitz to rebut Dhimmi Jimmy’s speech on Palestine at Brandeis next week 
Allahpundit

Carter won’t debate him because “he knows nothing about the situation in Palestine,” which of course is a shameless lie. So Brandeis has brokered a compromise: Carter will speak, then Dershowitz will take the stage and respond.

And while Carter’s speaking, Dershowitz will be physically barred from the premises.

“I think the inaccuracies of Carter’s points have to be pointed out. Carter said he wrote the book in order to stimulate a debate, but he won’t debate. I’m debating him whether he’s there or not,” Dershowitz told FOXNews.com.

“If his chair is empty, then that’s his decision,” he said…

Dershowitz won’t be allowed in the gymnasium during Carter’s appearance because it is limited to university students, faculty and staff, but he will watch it from somewhere else on campus, said Brandeis spokesman Dennis Nealon.

What are the odds that Carter will stick around to listen? Slim, I’m guessing:

Dershowitz said he also plans to question why the former president and his Atlanta-based Carter Center accepted money from Arab donors.  ...

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Jimmuh terrror not peace, part 3 
Scott Johnson

Today's continuing series is brought to you courtesy of the Washington Post and Jimmuh himself: "A new chance for peace." Jimmuh writes:

I am concerned that public discussion of my book "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" has been diverted from the book's basic proposals: that peace talks be resumed after six years of delay and that the tragic persecution of Palestinians be ended. Although most critics have not seriously disputed or even mentioned the facts and suggestions about these two issues, an apparently concerted campaign has been focused on the book's title, combined with allegations that I am anti-Israel. This is not good for any of us who are committed to Israel's status as a peaceful nation living in harmony with its neighbors.

Is there a truthful sentence in this opening paragraph? Jimmuh seems well on his way to achieving the perfect vacuum that Mary McCarthy credited to Lillian Hellman: "Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the."

Not to mention Jimmuh's omissions. He can't bring himself to call for the cessation of the tragic murder of Israelis by the terrorist groups operating as political parties within the PA, or to recognize the object of those parties as the causal factor in what he describes as "the tragic persecution of the Palestinians." ...

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Carter to give way to empty chair 
Paul Mirengoff

Brandeis University has agreed to have Alan Dershowitz present a rebuttal after Jimmy Carter gives his speech about the "apartheid" Israel allegedly has imposed on the Palestinians. Orignally, Dershowitz had hoped to debate Carter, but the former president, his survival instinct still intact, was having none of that. Instead, Dershowitz, in effect, will debate an empty chair.

As things now stand, Carter will talk for about 15 minutes and then take questions from the audience for 45 minutes. Dershowitz won’t be allowed in the gymnasium during Carter’s appearance, as attendance will be limited to university students, faculty and staff. He will watch from another location on campus.

Dershowitz says he plans to raise the fact that Carter and his Atlanta-based Carter Center have accepted money from Arab donors. The center's 2005 annual report shows that more than $1 million each has been contributed by such benefactors as ...

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Charles Johnson has an interesting handwrting comparison here. Guilty as charged.