Jimmy Carter was ignored about pretty much everything and he was right virtually every time.
With Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, he tried to prevent the tragedy he saw coming. “It is obvious that the Palestinians will be left with no territory in which to establish a viable state,” Carter wrote. “The Palestinians will have a future impossible for them or any responsible portion of the international community to accept, and Israel’s permanent status will be increasingly troubled and uncertain as deprived people fight oppression.”
In the next paragraph, Carter offered a now unsettling warning about what form that violent resistance might take. He explained that Palestinian and Lebanese militants knew the value of a captured Israeli soldier or civilian. As a result, absent an Israeli commitment to peace, militants would have an incentive to obtain hostages. Israel would then respond with overwhelming and disproportionate force. But it likely wouldn’t be enough to destroy the hostage takers, Carter warned. After the bombs stopped falling, they would emerge more popular than ever.
That’s a crystal ball level prediction. Spot on, unfortunately.
I don't think that counts as a crystal ball moment, everyone already knew for years and years. It's like if I predicted, right now, that climate change will get worse unless things change dramatically.
I don't know that "everyone knew" about the hostage-taking idea for years and years. I know I sure didn't, and a lot of people seemed very shocked when it happened.
I think you would have to be pretty deep into the whole situation to think that was a scenario worth writing about.
I also think you are really downplaying the depth of knowledge and experience that Jimmy Carter had.
This. Considering he made the prediction in 2006, which was before Hamas had seized power in Gaza, it seems to me to have been an exceptionally insightful prediction.
Is it any different than any other middle eastern group gaining political influence due to oppression backed by western influence?
Okay I thought they were making a big deal out of it because he just died but man that is straight up prophetic.
He was the guy who didn't need to worry about getting hired again. This exact chain of events has been entirely predictable for anyone with a basis in politics and history for the last several decades.
Jimmy Carter was a fantastic president anyone who thinks otherwise is likely why we're in this current situation, of any situation from Gaza to Trump to climate change
He wasn't a fantastic president, he came to most of these realization afterwards.
Hindsight Carter was a horrible president. His lip service after descending the throne won't fix his deeds while on it.
Yeah except he wrote his book long after his presidency ended and he chose to ignore the Palestinians during the camp david accords.
I already said this before but at least he admitted his mistakes.
I highly doubt Obama, Trump, or Biden would care even on their deathbed.
Love Jimmy a lot. Very sad he died.
Did he? He called out apartheid, but I dont think he expected genocide.
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