Then again, this is Jimmy Carter.
Via Judicial Watch:
The only American president to publicly support Islamic jihadists and join a communist dictator to trash the U.S. from a country determined by the State Department to sponsor terrorism blames the Paris attacks on Muslim fury over the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
Just when you thought Jimmy Carter couldn’t sink any lower. The one-time Georgia peanut farmer seemed to justify last week’s ghastly attacks in France by putting the blame on Israel during a television broadcast. When asked what factors led to the brutal massacre of 17 people in Paris, America’s 39th commander-in-chief said this: “Well, one of the origins for it is the Palestinian problem. And this aggravates people who are affiliated in any way with the Arab people who live in the West Bank and Gaza, what they are doing now — what’s being done to them. So I think that’s part of it.”
Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner like our current president, also warned of a “new evolutionary development in terrorism” that includes terrorists with French, British and American passports training in Syria. After a few months of terrorism training, Carter said, they return through Turkey. The “event” in Paris is going to “waken up” security officials to watch this new class of terrorists more closely and “not single out all of the Muslims in the country,” Carter further said during his recent appearance on a popular national cable TV show.