Professor Gerald Steinberg: Jimmy Carter blamed "the Jews" for 1980 loss

Professor Gerald Steinberg posted a thread a short time ago today (Monday) on X, noting that the recently deceased President James Carter had a "very problematic" relationship with Jews and especially Israel.

Steinberg, the founder of NGO monitor and a scholar of the 1979 Camp David accords, said that Carter combined "ignorance with arrogance and a thinly hidden Christian theological hostility to Jewish sovereignty and power" in his attitude to Israel and Jews.

He claims that Carter's relationship with both Labour Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Likud Prime Minister Menachem Begin during his time in office was "hostile and manipulative," to the point that Begin refused to speak with Carter after he left office.

Even regarding his signature achievement - the Camp David Accords - Carter reportedly distorted his part in achieving peace between Israel and Egypt, even contrary to American official documents.

His post-presidency was reportedly no better when it came to Israel, as Carter "embraced and propagated the Palestinian Arab victimhood narrative, joining in blaming Israel rather than 100 years of rejectionism, wars, terror, incitement, etc. for the conflict and suffering."