Jimmy Carter’s Unflinching Criticism Of Israel’s Apartheid State

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[@todddammit4628]

We didn't deserve Carter.

[@Intelligence_Failure]

i-country didn't deserve the inflation-adjusted $15bn of military aid carter sent in 1980.

[@FDR_progressive_liberal]

Too good or us? Yes I agree.

[@TheDivineNight]

Dude smoked a joint with Willy Nelson at the roof of the White House.

[@tonywilson4713]

I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. As an outsider looking in but also as one who has spent time in America I think America has sadly underestimated Jimmy Carter. His diplomatic work AFTER leaving office has ended up being incredibly significant and far more significant than other Presidents. If you go and look at the Wikipedia page for him at the end of the 2nd paragraph under Legacy - public opinion it says : _"Although his presidency received a mixed reception, his peacekeeping and humanitarian efforts since he left office have made Carter renowned as one of the most successful ex-presidents in American history."_ I think that's actually a very good summary of how Carter is seen around the world. I think that if an *HONEST* history of America in the post World War 2 Era is written (that's not a partisan narrative) Carter might well be regarded as the BEST ex-US president of the era. He certainly underestimated how ruthless some of Reagan's people were, but then we are only now really starting to find out just how ruthless those people were, but then he also was more successful than anyone else at SOLVING the Middle East issues. He got settlement between Israel & Egypt which has been forgotten by too many. He tried harder than anyone else to settle the Israel-Palestinian issue and seemed to be ready whenever needed to go anywhere he was called upon to help AND he did those things without any need for a parade of fanfare.

[@hitreset0291]

​@@TheDivineNight and if true. How good was that?! Would rather read about that than the stupid stuff coming from the Orange Turd.

[@dylanwaller2468]

Jimmy Carter, though in no way perfect, was still a much better person and politician than any President who came after him, hands down

[@samuelbekele3601]

One of America's biggest mistakes was not electing him again

[@todddammit4628]

Or before. He definitely is the most moral president we've ever had. The system beat him up for it.

[@encyclopediabrown5100]

Losing to Reagan changed the course of history. The Neoliberal agenda kicked into full gear.

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

Yeah, I think some of these comments are exaggerating his benevolence. Probably is the least harmful president we've had in generations, but that's a pretty low bar after world war II. He wasn't actively involved in the Vietnam massacre which immediately makes him better than Kennedy or LBJ. didn't cut welfare like Clinton, and or sanction Iraq The killing a half a children. He did cut aid to the Pinochet regime. But he's still basically let the CIA run rampant in region. Ask Chomsky said every US president since world war II would theoretically be subject to execution if we follow the neuromberg laws to the letter .. But as presidents go, he was better than the rest after FDR. His book in 2007 took legitimate courage. But I think people might be getting a little hyperbolic with the praise in the comment section

[@joankelly5625]

Jimmy Carter has an enviable moral compass.

[@SleazyDonny]

Jimmy Carter has always been 100% pro-human rights.

[@timobrien2586]

This country (and the world) would be so much better off if Carter had been re-elected.

[@idicula1979]

The fact is Jimmy Carter preached austerity and Ronald Reagan was the one that spent America out of its morass, the thing is he spent on the military side creating a new policing for them on the world stage, and America has a hard on it towards the military and our hard power ever since, even though it as long with our ever lowering taxes, thanks to the cult of Reagan has kept American life and its social welfare spending in a continuing decline.

[@Garrett1240]

He rinsed millions of domestic, good paying, working class jobs overseas. No different than those before and after him. A traitor to the nation’s workers.

[@EileenHall-j9f]

Amen to that, I’m British, Carter was a great President, intelligent with a moral compass. Carter was not accused of being an anti semite, when he justifiably criticised Israel for its apartheid regime.

[@billclockwell]

I mean he's just as eligible for a second term as biden and trump are ...

[@Ironcorgi2]

Yep, Reagan sold the American people on austerity voodoo economics. Wish people appreciated intelligent nuance over charismatic self serving lies

[@Commanderziff]

The American people traded Jimmy Carter for Ronald Reagan... we have always been too stupid to live.

[@Morning404]

I think about this everyday... and I'm British!

[@davidradovsky5354]

Carter was one of the worst but obiden has outdone him on purpose

[@quantize]

@@davidradovsky5354 nice of you to comment when your mouth is so full of trump mushroom

[@JustYFriend]

And even Reagan saw a possible genocide coming and kept Israel in line. Biden is a disgrace! 🤦‍♀️

[@juliewake4585]

@@Morning404he was and still is a very good man.

[@MsZeitgeist85]

Jimmy Carter was such a true man of faith that Evangelicals rejected him.

[@kingbeef66]

The Evangelicals of today would welcome Hitler if he said he was a Republican and for Christian rights.

[@sammyo2583]

@Abshirayamisrano they don’t reject part of their faith. They believe that according to the Bible the Jews were promised the land of Israel and that Israel is entitled to that land.

[@soniaellis4603]

@@sammyo2583 Hello from the UK.. Just wondering Sammy, you might know the name or names of the Authors who wrote this book the ..Bible ? Some times over the centuries words or stories get lost in translation ? I do not think your comment would account for much, in a Court of Law ? That the Jewish people were promised Israel and are entitled to it ? However, I am pretty sure that it was men who composed the Bible .And over the years it has been adapted, edited and re written many many times ? To suit whoever ? Maybe, people like you , Sammy ?

[@redrick8900]

@@sammyo2583 Your theology is clownshoes.

[@GazB85]

​ KZbin deleted my comment but Liberal Saint Carter is a war c******l and brought in austerity and Neo-Liberalism.

[@pc3244]

jimmy carter is a good decent person unlike those who followed him. when america chose reagan over him america changed for the worse.

[@myrtillesm3532]

To this day

[@joankelly5625]

He kept his original identity as a actor and took it to the top.

[@prismspec]

YES. YES. YES.

[@GazB85]

​@@prismspec NO. NO. NO. KZbin deleted my comment but Liberal Saint Carter is a war c******l and brought in austerity and Neo-Liberalism. Please research what he and his administration did. He and they were vile. Also got rid of the New Deal too.

[@LauraPerez-g3p]

I am old enough to remember when Carter negotiated the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. Jimmy Carter is the main reason i am a Democrat.

[@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n]

I remember the peace talks from the '90s!

[@thomasrussell4674]

He's SO underrated. He's certainly one of the best people who has occupied the position of US president

[@شريفحمدي-ث6ق]

that peace in risk currently!

[@Gee-xb7rt]

Reagan was the first "soft money" or "dark money" president. The regulations passed 1979.

[@Joe-ij6of]

@@شريفحمدي-ث6ق That peace evaporated with Bibi in the mid 90s... sadly, it died with Rabin

[@abmqa]

Jimmy Carter's agenda is to speak out on injustice for those who's voices have been muted. Jimmy Carter has always sought peace, avoiding conflict, much to the detriment of his political career.

[@sharonwall9188]

Carter was so right. An amazing man.

[@donnavorce8856]

Just finished Carter's book yesterday. It's a shame the world didn't take the suggestions he made. Things would be way better now had we listened and acted in a better way. If you view from google you can see the walls, scraped earth, the situation on the ground in Palestine. Try it sometime.

[@donnavorce8856]

Here's the list of documentaries: 5 broken cameras (nominated for Oscar) Cold Stone Justice Gaza’s fight for freedom Checkpoint 2003 O¢¢upation 101 Jenin, Jenin Shadows of the West Defamation Tantura (on internet archives) Born in Deir Ya$$in The o¢¢upation of Am€rican Mind Two ßlue Lines to see if i'm smiling - ex idf soldiers with ptsd born in gaza

[@BrendaHeeligan]

@@donnavorce8856Thanks for that list! I’ve just taken a screenshot of it and I’ll be sure to watch some of those documentaries. 👏👏

[@GazB85]

Liberal Saint war criminal who helped get rid of the New Deal regulations and embraced austerity and Neo-Liberalism.

[@rachael_grey]

"Be harsh with institutions, be gentle with people."

[@PhilSophia-ox7ep]

Institutions are just made up of people.

[@death265]

Jimmy Carter is a great man!

[@lordgigapiller]

Best president we've ever had. Imagine a president being a good person, its genuinely unthinkable now

[@GazB85]

Liberal Saint war criminal who helped get rid of the New Deal regulations and embraced austerity and Neo-Liberalism.

[@jds614]

Great man ....at best ineffective at worst a horrible president His scoreboard simply makes him not a great president The camp David thing however is a monumental achievement

[@lordgigapiller]

@@jds614 as I understand it most of the issues of his presidency stemmed from the years of liberalism which had been going on prior. Not beyond reproach but by no means a horrible president, gotta compare him to the others

[@redrick8900]

It's what we have now. Biden is as good as any person that's ever held the office.

[@redrick8900]

@@jds614 Carter saved our economy and kept us out of wars even though he knew the evil would trick the inept into those actions killing his political career. Funnily enough, the far left of Carters day did the same thing the far left is now doing to Biden.

[@Gek1177]

It's crazy that Cater, a devout and principled evangelical Christian has been so maligned by the majority of evangelicals. It really says a lot about the state of conservative Christianity in America.

[@jane-ju2op]

Its says a lot about the power of the corporation lobby groups to protect their own

[@mountainlion1989]

instead they embraced someone who is his polar opposite (and who thinks he will be remembered in the same positive way as carter)

[@tripledair]

Jimmy Carter may not see the end of this year, but he’s not going gently into that goodnight. Props Mr Carter.

[@AgitpropPsyop]

Being from Georgia, I’m proud to hear jimmy carter say this. I wish more folks in power had the courage to speak up.

[@RomWatt]

Jimmy Carter is as close to a Saint as US Presidents can get

[@trashmoneyyt]

Learn more about his administrations handling of the Gwangju Uprising, and Zbigniew Brzezinski's handling of the Middle East under his watch. He isn't building homes because he is a good person, he is building homes to atone for his actions.

[@gattaca5911]

@@trashmoneyyt yeah, he should have just enriched himself peddling "carter bibles"....lol..gfy

[@marufahmed3416]

​@@trashmoneyyttrue, a few people know this.

[@doghashisday4612]

Google Carter and Romero. What he did was brutal. Even after the assasination of Romero the R, torture and M of nuns he went back and continued the arms shipment to the junta. Really. He was a monster as a prez. Maybe he s a saintly peanut farmer...

[@trashmoneyyt]

@@gattaca5911 Do you think I'm a trump supporter? Dude Carter was a horrible president who enabled a ton of really fucked up shit. Go listen to the last two blowback seasons and you'll get a good idea of his foreign policy purposeful mismanagement.

[@ForrestGrump]

The choice between Carter and Reagan was an intelligence test.

[@hks2377]

And a morality test.

[@loriannrichardson7644]

Ultimately this is about racism. I'll never understand this level of hate -- Thank God! This behavior is monstrous and we're all forced to fund it, and to watch it. We are being made to sanction cruelty, to become inured to it. I am beyond sad and beyond ANGRY!!!

[@raistlin3462]

Not just racism. Also greed.

[@tjvirginia1319]

Racism and power. Imagine being so powerful. You can be a puppeteer of the American government and squash voices that try to shine light on your behavior by using publicly funded means. That is power!

[@trusarmor4957]

Jimmy Carter is the Last Great American President. He is great ma, and cared about us average people.

[@Acanthophis]

He has his own share of war crimes.

[@GazB85]

Carter is a war c******l and he cared so much about the average American that he got rid of the New Deal and brought in austerity and Neo-Liberalism.

[@a1ntcry1noveru]

@@AcanthophisI think, just as there is no ethical millionaire/billionaire, there are no American President without war crimes. The history and the amount of conflicts we are in just runs too far, wide and deep at this point. No American president will ever past a purity test. The game of politics (and it is most certainly a game) just will not allow for it. That being said, he is still the MOST genuine and earnest president that was truly interested in human rights and trying to make sincere positive change for the most people because he truly believed in it that we’ve ever had. And continued to display that beyond his presidency. The man genuinely cares about people. And I think that would still be true even if he wasn’t religious. And through the sea of despicable, immoral characters that have graced the stage of the American Political Horror Show, he deserves to be acknowledged for it. 💐

[@leonardopatrizio]

​@@Acanthophisabout time someone says it. Are east Timorense not people?

[@jerryhicks9025]

He was before my time but I really wish he got a second term.

[@lisacook8235]

Three terms!

[@myleslong5584]

The Reagan campaign did a back door,screw job on Carter during the hostage negotiations in Iran. Then,the Reagan administration did a screw job on America. Thanks,Ron.

[@sammyo2583]

@@myleslong5584 wasn’t Carter failure to get the hostages released from Iran part of the reason that he didn’t get reelected? I’m not American but I remember people being held hostage for about a year

[@redrick8900]

@@myleslong5584 Kennedy helped him.

[@Baelor-Breakspear]

The democracy now host has been doing the lords work for decades. She’s a national treasure

[@patrickduty7706]

Amy Goodman is a SAINT.

[@justinegorski2703]

She is how I start my you tube day every weekday.❤

[@ralphlinville6646]

God bless Jimmy Carter

[@garthreid5088]

Jimmy Carter is everything God would want in a person. I give him my highest respect.

[@GazB85]

Yeah, a war criminal who got rid of the New Deal regulations, pushed for austerity and Neo-Liberalism. The Bible's full of awful people, he'd fit right in.

[@joankelly5625]

You can't be a Jew and a Zionist. One contradicts the other. Zionists do not practice their religion. Just ask any Orthodox Jewish Rabbi. He will tell you.

[@MrYago-xd7um]

Well, ask a rabbi with the moral courage to ignore death threats from zionists when you do.

[@hitreset0291]

The question IS NOT "how does israel fix this Palestinian problem?" It IS "how do Palestinians fix this israeli problem?" Get it right.

[@chrisko6439]

That's actually not correct, there are absolutely insane Orthodox Rabbis in Israel. Not the Neturei Karta type, of course.

[@jds614]

You can certainly be both Don't be the jew police.

[@jds614]

​@hitreset0291 the "problem" is the interaction between the two....not either people

[@freecheese4143]

Generally speaking, I feel like you guys are fighting for America. I watched almost every episode! Thank You.

[@soniaellis4603]

Keep Talking and get the Truth Out There ... Never Ever Be Silent !

[@amania9254]

Why the Apartheid Israel lobbyists are not yet registered as Foreign Agents whom they are? While even some foreign journalists are registered as Foreign Agents!

[@heyskipj]

Just an honest man, no agenda.

[@GazB85]

You really believe that? 😂 Please research him and the vile things he and his administration did whilst in office. War c****s, brought in austerity and Neo-Liberalism.

[@tjvirginia1319]

No agenda other than peace and respect for all of humanity ❤

[@GazB85]

He's a war criminal who got rid of the New Deal, introduced austerity and brought in Neo-Liberalism. He's no Saint and was only doing this stuff to redeem himself from the awful stuff he did in power.

[@hg-hf5co]

Read Peace not Apartheid in 2021 after visiting the Carter presidential library in Atlanta. Really opened my eyes to what was happening to the Palestinians before the current genocide. That book gave me a great foundation pre October 7th of how to explain what was happening to my very radical Christian family and what humanitarian nightmares have been happening to Palestinians since the creation of isreal. I can also say that the book is still in circulation amongst my family, even members that haven't read a book in 5ish years finished it and came out with a changed perspective! Definitely worth the read!

[@nurlindafsihotang49]

While they did not realized how persecuted christian are, palestine or not, in israel!!!!😢

[@freecheese4143]

Likely the most educated POTUS ever.

[@tonywilson4713]

Australian here and I would say that others were more educated like Obama (Harvard) and Clinton (yale) who both had law degrees, but where Carter had them all beat was *HONESTY and his willingness to HELP.* He wasn't perfect and made mistakes but his diplomatic work AFTER being president has been well regarded around the world. By contrast NONE of the other presidents come close in their post presidency work. In fact the hardest thing is to compare the post-presidency work of others to him because the others have done almost NOTHING except charge lots of money to give talks and that includes the work of Nobel Peace prize winner Barrack Obama. Carter did all sorts of stuff and seemed willing to do what ever was asked of him. What have any of the others done as in diplomatic work or charity work or just anything other than make money?

[@CuriousKey]

@@tonywilson4713 I don't think having a law degree makes someone broadly educated. It's one of the most complex, but also most *narrow* fields you can study. And the sheer narrowness of law as a subject has a tendency to constrict a person's understanding of other aspects of the world, similarly to how medical doctors will often make fools of themselves when trying to understand politics. A holder of a law degree is an extremely narrow specialist, they are *not* well-educated in a general sense.

[@borisblvd5354]

with IQ of 165

[@sylviarichardson2138]

@@tonywilson4713 he also had the highest IQ of all the American Presidents.

[@tonywilson4713]

​@@sylviarichardson2138 Not certain on the IQ. Both Obama and Clinton are both incredibly smart people. Where Carter slaughter both Clinton and Obama is on dealing with foreign leaders. both Clinton and Obama might have been smart but they were also arrogant. That's why AFTER being president Carter has been so effective on the international stage. He was somebody other nations could actually talk to and then NOT be lectured about American prowess. Its a thing that's rarely discussed any more and its called *statesmanship* and Carter might go down as America's last great statesman. As someone who went to college in America I find it bewildering that a country like America with a well educated population does NOT have better statesmanship. I tell Australians all the time that America does not lack for good leaders its just that NONE of them are in Washington. I'll give you 2 examples of what I mean by leadership. 1) Go watch the acceptance speech Andrew Whitworth gave at the NFL awards in 2021for the Walter Payton Award. Most of the others are also fantastic displays. 2) Go watch the Commencement address Admiral William McRaven gave at U. Texas. If you look at almost any field of human endeavor there are American's at or near the top. If you look at Washington - is it a swamp or haven of leadership. *AND BEING fair I can ask the same questions about Canberra and I get the same answers.*

[@jerrysmith2360]

I’m a Brit, and looking at Carter, right or wrong, he’s the only genuine human being you’ve had as President in the last 60 years or so. The rest have been highly flawed. I hope he isn’t suffering during his hospice care and that his final moments are fruitful ones.

[@daveh893]

I think that Israel is acting from a position of strength and therefore has no reason to negotiate. I think the U.S. needs to reconsider its financial support for Israel for it's takeover of the West Bank. Maybe then Israel would negotiate as an equal partner.

[@abmqa]

@daveh893 Israel is the proxy of the United States. Biden and his administration are not fooling me with their weak chastising of an active genocide by Israel, while sending them offensive weapons and money. Biden should consider himself lucky, he's only getting my vote because Maga has taken over the Republican party.

[@berrlett]

“If members of the congress criticised Israel they may not be back the next turn”

[@richardcaves3601]

Notice he clearly makes a distinction between antisemitism and antizionism. A very astute politician.

[@richardofoz2167]

Thank you, Sam, for bringing this to us. It's distant memory from a bygone age when an older age male from the Deep South state of Georgia could rise above his roots and not only hold but express such enlightened views without being pilloried in the popular press and mainstream media for such outspoken effrontery to America's object of reverence in the Middle East. He was perfectly correct in saying that Americans didn't know and didn't want to know what was going on there. I grew up in Washington DC in the 50s and 60s and attended a school with a large Jewish component. When I first travelled the world in 1971, I visited Syria and the neighbouring Arab countries, and was shocked to find there even was a Palestinian issue, and a shameful history to the creation of Israel. At that time the world knew Palestinians only as hijackers of airplanes. I had no idea whatever that they had been violently displaced and robbed of their land, but I gained an introduction to the subject from publications of the PLO, and everything I learned has proven to be true. Since that time 54 years ago I have been a strong sympathiser of the Palestinians, and have been distressed to see their abuse at the hand of Israel grow worse with every passing year, and I despaired of ever seeing them in my lifetime find justice. At the age of 76 I am finally finding some hope, as the younger generation awakens to the monstrous abuse Israel has been allowed to dish out as they discover independent news channels that practice actual journalism, in contrast to the mainstream media who know only how to repeat government press reports. AT LAST a whole new generation in America and the wider world has watched Israel so eagerly poison the deep well of sympathy they enjoyed after 1945. Not only has Israel failed to learn the lessons of that war, but it hasIsrael has turned the brutality of Israel oppressors. How scandalised their European forebears would be to see how their own suffering has been weaponised to oppress others, The slogan "Never Again" - which had real power as "Never Again to Anyone" has come to mean instead "Never Again to Us. but Again and Again to Others". It seems that the monsters pf Dachau and Auschwitz and Birkenwald have been reincarnated in Israel among the soldiers of Israel's war machine and among the the people of Israel, who defy global opinion with their thirst for genocide.

[@junebrilly5302]

Thankyou for this thoughtful and insightful examination of how our political views are hammered out in the forge of history. I lived thru Vietnam. All the lies I suckled at my mothers breast were exploded by the My Lai Massacre and the carpet bombing of Cambodia. I could elaborate more but suffice to say I learned more and more with my eyes open, as I still do and always will to my last breath. Jimmy Carter is a moral example to us all

[@tonywilson4713]

I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. As an outsider looking in but also as one who has spent time in America I think America has sadly underestimated Jimmy Carter. His diplomatic work AFTER leaving office has ended up being incredibly significant and far more significant than other Presidents. If you go and look at the Wikipedia page for him at the end of the 2nd paragraph under Legacy - public opinion it says : _"Although his presidency received a mixed reception, his peacekeeping and humanitarian efforts since he left office have made Carter renowned as one of the most successful ex-presidents in American history."_ I think that's actually a very good summary of how Carter is seen around the world. I think that if an *HONEST* history of America in the post World War 2 Era is written (that's not a partisan narrative) Carter might well be regarded as the BEST ex-US president of the era. He certainly underestimated how ruthless some of Reagan's people were, but then we are only now really starting to find out just how ruthless those people were, but then he also was more successful than anyone else at SOLVING the Middle East issues. He got settlement between Israel & Egypt which has been forgotten by too many. He tried harder than anyone else to settle the Israel-Palestinian issue and seemed to be ready whenever needed to go anywhere he was called upon to help AND he did those things without any need for a parade of fanfare.

[@MegaAnimeforlife]

Only reason he lost in 1980 is because the Reaganites painted him as too nice and weak and not more willing to overthrow governments in central America 😂 and also painting him as the welfare queen supporter president lol

[@adamesd3699]

Presidents Kennedy and Carter shaped my image of what America meant when I was growing up. Bush jr, Trump, and Biden, destroyed that image.

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

Particularly with Kennedy. We should probably be cautious in how much praise we get him. He was complicit in the Vietnam war, actively tried to stop Street protests from the civil Rights movement insisting that it'd be done in Congress. Genuinely seem to support the idea of a unipolar world where the United States was the loan hegemon. But I do understand that his relatively short presidency did inspire hope in some people. He was an impressive politician to be sure. I mean that was true of RFK as well, but people forget that he works for Mccarthy in the '50s

[@adamesd3699]

@@michaelcorcoran8768Kennedy was definitely a Cold Warrior when he entered office. And yes, he expanded operations in Vietnam. However, there’s a lot of evidence that he was changing and trying to focus more on co-existence and an early form of detente. We’ll never know, of course, but his second term might have been very interesting and potentially positive.

[@SixOneNiner23]

I fell for Trump and the social media bs so hard, acted like a complete fool and I’m still embarrassed.

[@GazB85]

Carter is a liberal Saint war criminal who helped get rid of the New Deal regulations and embraced austerity and Neo-Liberalism.

[@Wolfe-Tone-]

Never feel embarrassed. You're just a lot more aware now of how bad faith ideas and propaganda can take hold of everyday people. The evil is how benign it seems and how easily it carries seemingly normal people away

[@kathys2357]

2,3,4,5 thousand years ago the didn't even call themselves Jewish. Those people identified by town, family name, or status.

[@katb7921]

Jimmy Carter clip at 8:00

[@charlesandrews2360]

What a lot of people don't remember and a lot of people don't even know is that Jimmy Carter turned our economy around by appointing Paul Volcker as chairman of the Fed knowing it would cost him his second term. Oh yeah, he also promoted green energy. He is a great American hero

[@freespirit4162]

As soon as we realise Humanity is ONE..All fingers of One hand .All Blood SAME Colour 😭

[@nurlindafsihotang49]

One life and same white bones. We are our own demise.

[@sprachenwelt]

My goodness, I did not know you are Jewish and have been watching your show for quite some time. Respect to stand up for what you believe against all odds.

[@norcatch]

Israel was very pally with apartheid South Africa. Lest we forget.

[@waltcoact1983]

Very important clip. Thank you

[@RjWolf3000]

“The American people didn’t want to know” but perhaps more importantly, no one wanted to tell them.

[@francoisbouvier7861]

"Americans don't want to know." Insert issues. In there is the dilemma.

[@Pixelhorizon]

The establishment accused Carter of being soft... One of the best US presidents ever... These caricatures in Congress do the bidding of Israel and big companies instead of fighting for the American people, truth or justice, shameful...

[@steevrawjers]

Jimmy Carter is an all time classic for sure one of the greatest Americans ever and one of the greatest World Citizens ever

[@Intelligence_Failure]

in 1980 jimmy carter, as a reward for the camp david accords (1978 peace deal with egypt), oversaw, if you adjust for inflation, the second biggest military aid volume in one year to i-country, only very slightly behind '75, which was the year after the rather disastrous yom kippur war: $4bn, equivalent to $15.2bn today.

[@JustYFriend]

❤ Jimmy Carter. What a wonderful human being. Thank you, Sam. 🙏

[@borisblvd5354]

I saw one video, where Douglas MacGregor says that Israel hated Jimmy Carter. I'm glad someone is covering more of Jimmy Carter's work regarding Palestine & the sacred cow.

[@SixOneNiner23]

Sam you absolutely rule my dude.

[@athklymqimtb]

When in office Carter ended up helping Israel despite his later open criticism , it is messed up

[@Ironcorgi2]

An apartheid government is a detriment to its citizens. Makes society poorer to be discminatory. It’s why the American south still suffers economically

[@sebolddaniel]

Wow. Carter is still alive. I remember walking around Haifa off a Navy port visit in the eighties and shooting my mouth off about Palestinian rights. After I got back from the Gulf War and those gay witch hunts against Navy linguists I went to Baalbek, Lebanon and made jokes about Hizb Allah in Arabic when I heard some firecrackers go off on the street. All those college boys on Hizb Allah scholarships thought it a scream. Love listening to Hasan Nassarelah's fiery speeches.

[@brendanwood1540]

Just look at things from their side. Put yourself in the position of the average person on the ground. Study the history of the situation and ask yourself what would you do? Try to image a relative or friend who was involved in the historic events that lead to the current conflict. How many friends of relative would need to be effected before you lost that empathy for the other side? Well if that's happening now to you because of the other side being aggressive. It's the exact same thing on the other side. That's how you keep empathy even though you are losing it. You see how universally war dehumanizes us.

[@hughquigley5337]

Great question by the caller and I love how Sam was just being brutally honest, too. It was a great segway into this video of Jimmy Carter, and it really stuns me how good of a dude he is. I can’t believe we traded this guy for Reagan, who wasn’t worth the air he breathed.

[@terilynnnelson572]

I read this book, it is a serious study and provided a workable solution at the time it was published. The beauty of Jimmy Carter is that he was never beholden to anything other than his own moral conscience.

[@rabidbigdog]

Kennedy and Carter could not be allowed to succeed. Eisenhower predicted it.

[@FindTheFun]

America finally did something right for once by electing Jimmy Carter and then we immediately decided we're never doing anything like that again.

[@omarr6465]

Americas last statesman- this is why he was / is hated

[@tiredcaballero]

Israel’s future depends on the honesty and truthfulness of smart people like Sam. Especially if they have a Jewish background. Thank you, Sam!

[@budp9844]

In 1983 I was a young, Canadian, university student, getting an archaeological field credit at an archaeological site near Be'er Sheva, Israel. Our HQ was the American School of Oriental Research (ASOR), based in East Jerusalem. The archaeological camp's cooks were a Palestinian family. During scheduled tours we saw the typical sites of Israel, and on weekends we often did our own sightseeing. Some of us were not rich, so we rode the cheaper, Arab transit buses. At the time I was struck by the similarities of oppression and poverty of the most Palestinians there, and some Indigenous communities in Canada. Afterwards I realized apartheid is a term that applies to national policies beyond certain South African periods of history.

[@mattfox2716]

If my grandfather, a Jewish man who served in ww2, knew Israel was wrong 30 something years ago then so did millions of others. 90% is the type of number you get when your polling is extremely selective.

[@theoldesttrees]

I hope that more Americans who are starting to understand the insanity of our system will take this as motivation to organize locally, create our own networks to take care of each other. Because the only way things get better is if empire ends, and that means we will need to take care of our most vulnerable. Please don't stop at protesting and voting. Make the system obsolete by building something better!

[@AWilliams-m6e]

I heard Sam say that Jimmy Carter is just a guy building houses for Habitat for Humanity. I understood what he was getting at...that Jimmy Carter had no reason to be distorting any facts for any constituents but I need to point out that he was and is so much more. Brilliant man who thought the US citizens would appreciate honesty and truths. He (and I) were sorely disappointed to find that many preferred lies and fairytales quickly provided by a man best known for his acting skills.

[@DanTheMailman330]

I had a highschool teacher in the early 90s who once said Jimmy Carter was too good and honest a man to be a modern American president. It was during a classroom conversation pertaining to the recent election of Clinton in 92 and integrity (or lack there of) of past presidents. I didn't appreciate how on the nose he was but time sure proved him correct. If all people who say they are Christian were like President Carter the nation and world would be a far better place.

[@brunogauthier1]

Sorry, it's Jimmy Connors

[@eedeneel]

To the question asked at the start; i would say, if you cant prevent yourself from losing that empathy within your everyday thoughts, that is okay. The important thing is that it doesn't prevent you from making the correct decision once it comes up, for instance the persuit of reconciliation after everything is over.

[@NorthOfChickKorea]

"I don't know" is a damn solid, honest answer.

[@exposethewar-mongers]

IT REMINDS ME OF THE SAYING: POWER CORRUPTS AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY.

[@garyobrien3740]

Very powerful, thank you

[@JamesLochridge-u1h]

The last president with a semblance of honour.

[@TroubledTrooper]

I am not such a fan of his Presidency but I love his work after the Presidency. He has even strongly critiqued Presidents of both parties in recent times.

[@photographerGerald]

I have voted since 1972. It is Carter who makes me proud to be an American.

[@teebalicious]

Your reminder that Reagan spoke out passionately against settlers, and GW even tied aid up to halt settlers, which arguably contributed to his election loss. This should be a united front for peace.

[@itcouldbelupus2842]

Regan's actions live on, his words were meaningless and untrustworthy at the time and even more so now.

[@TheSuperTroutMan]

Common Carter W

[@rachelatwood9555]

did Vermont Ben provide an email or any social media contacts? I'd really like to connect with his over this particular topic that affects me deeply as well

[@teedub1990]

His observation that if any member of Congress spoke out about the plight of the Palestinian people, they would lose their seat in the next election was a bit prophetic. He blatantly said there were forces in America that would prevent it. He did not see a second term. His replacement was easily led by those forces.

[@michellerenner6880]

This is why they had to get rid of Jimmy Carter. If he’d had a second term, maybe we wouldn’t be where we are today.

[@marshallsweatherhiking1820]

So much easier to be based when you are completely out of power.

[@jennifermackinnon6982]

God love Jimmy Carter. A good and noble man.

[@SkepticalSpectrum]

That is a very honest caller.

[@Corndogg316]

Jimmy Carter is older in that clip than Joe is now. No way you can tell me Biden looks sharper than this 85 year old man. Something is wrong

[@Deemo202]

People age differently. Bernie is older than Biden and Trump yet he still seems sharp as a tack.

[@chunglin_tang]

People seem to forget: Carter was also the president who switched recognition from Taiwan(ROC) to Mainland China(PRC). Whether that was good/bad/necessary is another issue, but missing this out of his legacy is not honest.

[@MrWphilips]

It feels a little like being an American citizen who cannot see any substantive impact on what my government is determining what is done, and ignores everything that I believe in and want for my country! Biden- “Nothing will fundamentally change!”

[@GeoffV-k1h]

Carter was a wise man. And fundamentally honest. Compare the politicians back then to now.

[@DouglasASean]

❤❤Amy Goodman!❤❤

[@Boomers4Zoomers]

Godspeed, Mr. President 🎉

[@lyle4244]

The true measure of a successful life. Is the the world a better place for you having been in it? Know that he his is in hospice he deserves the respect he has earned by how he and Rosalynn Carter lived their lives. Both true gifts to humanity.

[@leroy-h9k]

Honestly, Sam spends half his air time saying, "Ahhhm ummm, oooo, I don;t know, wha, uh, huh, uh, i just, well, uhh, ummm, ahh"

[@itcouldbelupus2842]

Damn that's really insightful. No one has ever pointed that out

[@thecatsbackyard4833]

Holy crap.

[@rrubens3026]

Damn throw back Amy Goodman lol

[@belkyhernandez8281]

This is such an awkward time in the US. As a former left/progressive/liberal leaning activist since the 80s, my activist social circle includes many Jewish people with proclaimed similar inclinations. Yet, they are uncharacteristically silent on this situation. And in the past, many have proudly posted pictures of their visits to Israel. I don't know if they quietly approve or disapprove of Israel and am afraid to ask. This reminds me of the tensions among Cuban Americans/Cubans regarding US policies towards Cuba. I would like to see many more Jewish people speak out against Israel because I think this creates the space to others both Jew and non Jew.

[@alli6791]

The first guy asking about dehumanizing Russians, he needs to work that out with a therapist, not a podcast host….because that is something a therapist could help him work and talk through.

[@Ironcorgi2]

In the modern political landscape a president with principles and good sense will probably be one term presidents. Jimmy Carter actually tried dialogue and negotiations rather than flex military might

[@charlescraft5582]

Can our government… be competent? Jimmy Carter says yes. Jimmy Carter says yes.

[@simonkapadia7582]

The point is to care enough to try not to dehumanise people. The draw to do so is basically a consequence of conceptualising people as part of a group, which is a fairly normal human cognitive tendency, and empathising with one group that is opposed to, and harmed by another. We feel the pain of the group, and we feel this urge to hate the group we see as hurting them. And what makes it worse is when a lot of that population is behind the harm in question, and bear in mind this is not unusual, a large portion of populations engaged in genocide often do support that genocide. But what we have to recognise is that hating people makes us a worse person and does nothing to help others. It's corrosive and corrupting. Hating people is *why* those populations support those harms. Often empathy makes us into monsters, despite what people think. Tribalism is heavily oriented on caring more about people you see as being like you, than people you see as being opposed to people like you. Hating people on the basis of tribalism is normal, so normal it's almost unavoidably human. How you respond to your own instincts is down to you. Being human is not just about our basic emotions, or biases, or motivations, or structures. It's about the totality of who we are, and we can be better than the least, the foundation, the baseline. We can build a better structure on top of those instincts. And that's human too. We can make ourselves better, we can. We tend not to.