Jimmy Carter was the best friend the Jews ever had ......

[jaysunb]

Jimmy Carter was the best friend the Jews ever had as president of the United States.

He is the only president to have actually delivered for the Jewish people an agreement (the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt) that has stood the test of time. Since the treaty, there have been bad vibes between Israel and Egypt, but never a return to war, once Israel fully withdrew from the territories it conquered in Egypt during the 1967 war.

To get that agreement, Carter had to twist the arms of Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat. Sometimes that is what real friends do—they push you into a path that is really in your best interest at times when there is an emergency and you are acting self-destructively.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/12/06/thank_you_jimmy_carter.php

[no_hypocrisy]

1. My grandparents used to say that Nixon was the best friend

the Jews ever had . . .

I go with Tom Paine.

[jaysunb]

2. He probaly was, up til

the time he left office.
I don't think any of the previous Presidents ( before Nixon )would have ever let the M/E situation get as far as it has. Had not Johnson & Nixon been so consumed with the Vietnam conflict, things would probably be very different now.