Anti-Israel Figure to address Democratic Convention

Organizers of the Democratic National Convention announced on Tuesday that a former Democratic elected official, James Earl Carter, Jr., also known “Jimmy,” a former governor of Georgia with a lengthy anti-Israel record since his forced retirement twenty-eight years ago, will address the gathering next Monday, August 25 . Carter, who served one term as president from 1977-1981 before being defeated in landslide in the 1980 election, carrying only six states, has, since that defeat, blamed Israel for most of the problems in the conflict the Jewish State faces with the Palestinian Arabs.  Earlier this year, despite objections by his own nation’s State Department, the disgraced former president met with Khaled Meshal, a leader of the Hamas organization, in Syria. The State Department has designated Hamas a terrorist organization . He called Israeli treatment of the Palestinians,  ” one of the greatest human rights crimes on earth, ” yet did not of...