Jimmy Carter’s daunting challenge

The latest poll from Gallup indicates that the disgraceful former president of the United States has got a hard row to hoe as he “seeks to erode the ‘impenetrable wall’ that blocks the American public from seeing the plight of Palestinians.” 

(link to this great photo provided by Aussie Dave at Israellycool)

That’s because Americans just keep sympathizing with the Israelis, no matter what:

Carter continues his jihad, although he has had to change his tune. Here’s what he said last Thursday at George Washington University:

“The driving force for the terrible oppression and persecution in Palestine comes from a minority of Israelis and their desire to confiscate and colonize Palestinian lands,” Carter said Thursday. A trade of land for peace would be acceptable to most Israelis, he said, “but not to a minority of the more conservative leaders who have intruded into Palestine and who are unfortunately supported by AIPAC and most of the vocal American Jewish communities.”

See? Whereas in Carter’s narrative there was once a massive conspiracy on the part of Israel to impose racist apartheid on the long-suffering Palestinians, now it’s only a tiny handful of Israeli Jews [a "minority"] who are to blame for the Palestinians’ “terrible oppression and persecution.” (And, of course, the evil AIPAC.)

Here’s another trend for Carter to consider: as Americans move out of the “undecided” column, they move over to sympathize with the Israelis, not the Palestinians.

No amount of Jew-baiting, Israel-baiting, and AIPAC-baiting is going to change this. It’s not a conspiracy, and it’s not that complicated.

When the Palestinians become more sympathetic—i.e., when they are seen to behave in a manner that befits sympathy rather than disgust, indignation, or outrage—they will garner more sympathy from Americans.