Today’s editorial in the NY Post focuses on a certain former president and his apparent approval of suicide bombings against Israel: “Jimmy for terror.”

How else to read that astonishing statement on page 213 of Jimmy Carter’s new anti-Israel screed, “Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid”?

To wit: “It is imperative that the general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups make it clear that they will end the suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism when international laws and the ultimate goals of the Roadmap for Peace are accepted by Israel.” (Emphasis added.)

You don’t have to read between the lines here.

Carter isn’t calling on the Palestinians to give up terror and murder now as a way to convince Israel they are serious about peace. Rather, he says they can wait until they’ve achieved their goals at the bargaining table. No need, says Carter, to give up terrorism until then.

Certainly, that’s how 14 members of the Carter Center’s advisory board read that paragraph. Indeed, it’s why they angrily submitted their resignations last week.

That’s also how Melvin Konner read it. He’s a respected anthropology professor at Emory University and had been asked to be part of an academic group meant to advise the former president and the Carter Center on how to respond to criticism of the book.

As Konner wrote to John Hardman, the center’s executive director, in declining the invitation: “I cannot find any way to read this sentence that does not condone the murder of Jews until such time as Israel unilaterally follows President Carter’s prescription for peace. The sentence, simply put, makes President Carter an apologist for terrorists and places my children, along with all Jews everywhere, in greater danger.”

Konner, by the way, is no Carter-basher; he describes the former president as “one of my greatest heroes.”

But he is troubled by what he calls Carter’s “rigid and inflexible views” that render him “no longer capable of dialogue” on the issue. He is deeply bothered by Carter’s “complete failure to engage criticism from much greater experts than me about his numerous and serious errors” of fact in the book.

And he’s understandably offended by Carter’s “repeated public insinuations that the Jews control the media and the Congress - well-worn anti-Semitic slurs that, especially coming from President Carter, present a clear and present danger to American Jews.”

How did this man ever become president of the United States?

He’s gone from failed president to friend of left-wing tyrants and global scold of anything that represents America’s legitimate interests.

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The NY Sun reports that the letter “X” is on its way to being banned in Saudi Arabia because of its resemblance to a cross, and also takes the opportunity for a salutary review of the brutal religious intolerance and oppression that continues every day in that country.

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And in the light of that former story, this one raises particular interest. From the Arab News (which is the face the Saudis are happy to show to the world): “Charity Steps In to Help Saudis Abroad.” What kind of help do you think that this Saudi charity could be offering to Saudis in other countries? A couple of examples from the article:

“A Saudi requested our help to bring back two of his daughters in the US who had converted to Christianity, the religion of their mother. We paid $1,000 to the girls as monthly assistance until the completion of procedures to bring them back to the Kingdom,” Al-Yaum Arabic daily quoted Hamoud as saying.

The society was also able to prevent a Saudi woman from working in a nightclub in an Arab capital by providing a monthly salary and housing for the woman and her three children, he said. “We have contacted the father of the children to bring them back to the Kingdom,” he added.

Heartwarming stuff, no?

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