A Reputation to Sell
Why is Alan Dershowitz so angry about Jimmy Carter? Because he believes that Carter is prostituting himself for Arab money at the expense of the security of Israel. Writes Dershowitz:
No reasonable person can dispute therefore that Jimmy Carter has been and remains dependent on Arab oil money, particularly from Saudi Arabia. Does this mean that Carter has necessarily been influenced in his thinking about the Middle East by receipt of such enormous amounts of money? Ask Carter. The entire premise of his criticism of Jewish influence on American foreign policy is that money talks. It is Carter—not me—who has made the point that if politicians receive money from Jewish sources, then they are not free to decide issues regarding the Middle East for themselves. It is Carter, not me, who has argued that distinguished reporters cannot honestly report on the Middle East because they are being paid by Jewish money. So, by Carter’s own standards, it would be almost economically “suicidal” for Carter “to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine.”
Carter may turn out to be a bigger shakedown artist than Jesse Jackson. (He’s already the bigger anti-Semite.)
