How the Iraq and Syrian Nuclear Reactors Were Destroyed and Carter's Position About Israel

 Nadene Goldfoot                                             

In public, all 3 leaders had to smile.  Off camera, Carter was writing a book condemning Israel.  It was called Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, and  was a New York Times Best Seller book written by 39th President of the United States Jimmy Carter. It was published by Simon & Schuster in November 2006. 

    The Israeli air force destroyed the Osirak nuclear reactor, outside Baghdad, June 7, 1981, inaugurating the Begin Doctrine, which stipulated that Israel would never allow its enemies to attain nuclear weapons.

 Menachem Begin, 6th PM of Israel,  authorized the bombing of the Osirak nuclear plant in Iraq. He was Prime Minister from 21 June 1977 to 10 October 1983.Jimmy Carter was the US president from January 20, 1977 to January 20, 1981. Ronald Reagan was then president from 1981 to 1989.Osirak was hit after only 4 months into his first term.  

Former President Jimmie Carter was not a fan of Israel.  He criticized Israel's attack on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981 without mentioning that it was the site of Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program, that Iran had already attacked the site the year before, and that the UN had failed to take any action to prevent Iraq from acquiring nuclear weapons.  Carter also failed to mention that Iraqi leaders had said that the nuclear bombs Iraq planned to build were specifically intended for use against Israel alone.  Throughout his time in office, Carter continued to omit important facts that would redeem Israel.  Instead, he attacked this tiny Jewish state, the only one in the world. 

His "Holy Land " knowledge is mostly what he teaches in his Sunday school classes, if you ask me.  He shows no knowledge of why it is important to the Jewish people.  

His book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid is a New York Times Best Seller book written by 39th President of the United States Jimmy Carter. It was published by Simon & Schuster in November 2006.  It is an indictment against Israel's very being, starting with the title with the accusation of practicing apartheid which is a lie that Israel's defenders have been fighting and proving that it is a lie.  President Carter, who was able to negotiate peace between Israel and Egypt, has remained deeply involved in Middle East affairs since leaving the White House. He has stayed in touch with the major players from all sides in the conflict and has made numerous trips to the Holy Land (he can't say "Israel?"), most recently as an observer in the Palestinian elections of 2005 and 2006.

In this book, President Carter shares his intimate knowledge of the history of the Middle East.  His knowledge must be warped, in my opinion,  probably due to the writers he has chosen and his personal experiences with the principal actors to come up with such conclusions,  

 He addresses sensitive political issues many American officials avoid.  Pulling no punches, Carter prescribes steps that must be taken for the two states to share the Holy Land without a system of apartheid or the constant fear of terrorism.  What does he think Israel has been doing?  The difference is that Israel is not leaving.  Carter and the Palestinians will have to accept them and their return home.

The general parameters of a long-term, two-state agreement are well known, the president writes. There will be no substantive and permanent peace for any peoples in this troubled region as long as Israel is violating key UN resolutions, official American policy, and the international “road map” for peace by occupying Arab lands and oppressing the Palestinians.  In other words, he's against Israel.  In his eyes, Palestinian Arabs have done no wrong.  He has set the goal for other anti-Semites to follow to this day.  

Except for mutually agreeable negotiated modifications, Israel’s official pre-1967 borders must be honored under his plan. Netanyahu explained on public TV why this is impossible today, as were all previous administrations since the founding of Israel, US government leaders must be in the forefront of achieving this long-delayed goal of a just agreement that both sides can honor.  It's been realized that there will never be peace unless both sides agree to a plan.  The US cannot force an agreement.  Who does Carter think he was?  The Romans, maybe?  

With Jimmy Carter,  it is always  Israel's fault.  Jimmy Carter says that if only Israel ended the occupation, there would be peace.  What occupation?  Israel never occupied.  It was the Romans who occupied their land of Judah and then burned it down in the year 70 CE.  All this time Jews have been living in in other people's lands, usually as 2nd class citizens.  When WWI was about over, and the Ottoman Empire, which oversaw Palestine was on the Axis side, Jews discussed their case for return to their land with the Allies. Many Jews already had been living in Palestine, just like some Arabs.  Jews did everything legal.  In fact, it was the English in the end that stiffed the Jews by giving away 80% of the promised Holy Land to a Saudi prince who was in search of a land to rule, and they gave it to prince Abdullah of Arabia.  Thus we now have Jordan. 

Every step has been under the UN ruling and Israel's legal ruling.  This land as you call the Holy Land is our land originally,, and your people have been stiffing Jewish people once too many times.  Now you've gone and let the Palestinians have almost 50% of our 20% of land, calling it the West Bank (Jordan's renaming of Judea and Samaria).That would have been fine had they not been attacking Jews every day, killing, maiming, running into them with cars, using knives, rockets, missiles, mortars. They don't hide their intentions.  It's out in the open.  Kartoum's conference said it all.  No peace, No recognition, No  negotiations.  This "warning" was reinforced on October 21, when an Egyptian missile boat sunk the Israeli destroyer Eilat, killing 47 people. It was confirmed in November and December, when the Arab states repeatedly rebuffed attempts by Sweden's ambassador to the Soviet Union, Gunnar Jarring — serving as the U.N. secretary general's special envoy - to induce them to join talks with Israel. In fact, the "three no's of Khartoum" held for a dozen years, until Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel — at which point the other 20 member states expelled it from the Arab League.

Operation Opera (Hebrew: מבצע אופרה), also known as Operation Babylon, was a surprise airstrike conducted by the Israeli Air Force on 7 June 1981, which destroyed an unfinished Iraqi nuclear reactor located 17 kilometres (11 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. 

The Israeli operation came after Iran's partially successful Operation Scorch Sword had caused minor damage to the same nuclear facility a year prior, with the damage having been subsequently repaired by French technicians. 

Operation Opera, and related Israeli government statements following it, established the Begin Doctrine, which explicitly stated the strike was not an anomaly, but instead "a precedent for every future government in Israel".                                   

 Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. He was behind the Iraq reactor.  Carter was the US president from 1977 to 1981.  The execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein took place on 30 December 2006 by US seals under Obama.

      Netanyahu is the Iranian missile's target.

Carter also failed to mention that Iraqi leaders had said that the nuclear bombs Iraq planned to build were specifically intended for use against Israel alone.  

Especially Iran, who themselves had also attacked Iraq's nuclear reactor  in the making, knew what Israel would do in the future to any state that tried to rub them out.  Yet they have had the chutzpa to go ahead and try it.                                                  

It was  Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini  17 May 1900 – 3 June 1989), better known as Ayatollah Khomeini, that was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was behind the Iranian attack of the reactor. Iran and Iraq held a war that lasted almost 8 years.

Twenty-six years later, on September 6, 2007, the Begin Doctrine was put into effect again when IAF aircraft destroyed a Syrian nuclear reactor in a remote desert location, underscoring Jerusalem's continued resolve to fend off all existential threats, come what may.  Operation Outside the Box, also known as Operation Orchard, was an Israeli airstrike on a  nuclear reactor with a military purpose, referred to as the Al Kibar site, in the Deir ez-Zor region of Syria, which occurred just after midnight on 6 September 2007. The attack reportedly followed Israeli top-level consultations with the Bush Administration. After realizing that the US was not willing to bomb the site after being told so by U.S. President George W. Bush, 

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert decided to adhere to the 1981 Begin Doctrine and unilaterally strike to prevent a Syrian nuclear weapons capability, despite serious concerns about Syrian retaliation. On 22 March 2018, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officially took responsibility for destroying a nuclear reactor built in the northeastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zor in 2007 after a decade of ambiguity. Surely, the world governments  knew who did it, after knowing about the Begin Doctrine.  Who else?  

We all know that Donald Trump was in office when the Abraham Accords were fulfilled.  The Abraham Accords are a joint statement between the State of Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States, reached on August 13, 2020.

The Abraham Accords expanded and are now a series of treaties normalizing diplomatic relations between Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, facilitated by the U.S. Administration[1] between August and December, 2020. In the span of five short months, these four Arab states joined Egypt and Jordan in making peace with Israel. The agreements were called “The Abraham Accords” in honor of Abraham - the patriarch of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  Now, what does Jimmy Carter say about this?  Saudi Arabia is in the plans, and at least the situation with them has improved a little.  Israeli planes can fly over their air space.                                      

 But has Jimmy Carter ever praised the Abraham Accords, asked algemeiner?                     

While the Carter Center has issued plenty of articles about Israel, most of them critical, the term “Abraham Accords” is not mentioned. I couldn’t find a thing on their website about the peace agreements between Israel and Morocco, Sudan, Bahrain, or the UAE.

This seems odd, since Carter positions himself as a champion of Middle East peace.

It isn’t hard to guess why, however. The Abraham Accords violated the primary rule of “peacemakers” since Oslo — that no Arab nation would make peace with Israel until the Palestinian issue was resolved. According to this worldview, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was the core of instability in the Middle East.  (It's the Arab nations who have been stiffed by the Palestinians.  They dole out money each year and are not getting their bang for the buck.  They're paying for constant warring with Israel).  

All of the arguments about why the Abraham Accords were useless have been proven wrong in the year since they were signed.  Between Trump and his son in law, Jared Kushner, they accomplished the impossible.  Maybe the timing was just right?  Also, the threat over their heads of Iran taking over the Muslim world had a lot to do with the timing.

         Iran being so close to the nuclear bomb making.

Now Iran has been threatening Israel by repeating what Iraq had done, wanting to destroy Israel with nuclear bombs and what Israel had done, also hitting a nuclear reactor of Iraq's.   The Begin Doctrine still stands.  As Iran has stated that they want to drive Israel into the sea, so Israel has warned all people how they will defend themselves.  

Israel has reason to believe their accusations and threats.  The Iranian leaders’ quest is to destroy Israel.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, calling for Israel's destruction

"Despite the sheer volume of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic statements emanating from the country’s two supreme leaders in the 43 years since the Islamic revolution in Iran, the notion that Tehran’s Islamist rulers seek the destruction of Israel has often been caveated, belittled, or politically recast by other nations.

Perhaps most famous is the case of former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who called for Israel’s destruction in 2005 when paraphrasing a line from the founding father of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Quite literally, Ahmadinejad said, “The occupying regime of Jerusalem must be disappeared from the page of time.” His quote became the subject of a translation controversy and political debate following its popularly rendered but more figurative translation as calling for Israel to be “wiped off the map”—which not just American, but Iranian state-run English-language outlets employed.

Resource:

book:  Thee CASE AGAINST ISRAEL'S ENEMIES, by Alan Dershowitz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Outside_the_Box

http://www.sixdaywar.org/content/khartoum.asp

https://www.standwithus.com/theabrahamaccords?gclid=CjwKCAjwsMGYBhAEEiwAGUXJaTDoOMVhQswwHUZvtCnOqyK_2FDBhrkN7MQziJnZL3pkA9nDv6rizBoCubkQAvD_BwE

https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/09/20/does-jimmy-carter-support-the-abraham-accords/