by Kathy at misterpolitics.com

This is absolutely stunning: Jimmy Carter has both hands deep inside several very interesting cookie jars. Cookie Jar owners include: government of Saudi Arabia, foundation of Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, brother of Osama bin Laden, Bakr BinLadin, for the Saudi BinLadin Group and even Hugo Chavez. to name a few.

That is only a partial list; Yes a partial list. Here is an excerpt:

The former president, the man who presided over the birth of the Islamic Republic in Iran, is speaking at Brandeis University tonight. You can bet that if he does a Q&A, students will steer clear of any questions swirling around who funds the Carter Center and what they get for their donations. Today’s university types tend to only speak truth to power when it poses no threat of disturbing their leftwing worldview.

But our good friend Claudia Rosett is digging into Carter’s finances, and what she’s finding is illuminating.

In recent weeks, a number of articles have noted that Carter’s anti-Israeli views coincide with those of some of the center’s prime financial backers, including the government of Saudi Arabia and the foundation of Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, whose offer of $10 million to New York City just after Sept. 11 was rejected by then-mayor Rudy Giuliani because it came wrapped in the suggestion that America rethink its support of Israel.

I love how she phrases that. That Saudi money tied to the Saudi government’s virulent anti-Israel views put the responsibility for 9-11 not on the Saudi citizens who were 15 of the 19 hijackers or even on the Saudi citizen who funded the attacks, but on the US for supporting the lone democracy in that part of the world against the seething medievalists in Rhiyadh and elsewhere across the Middle East. We should have read the Saudi’s suggestion for what it was at the time: a threat. Take our money, stop supporting Israel, and you won’t experience another one of these attacks. But keep supporting Israel and you’ll stay in the crosshairs.

Reading this excerpt reminds me of Jimmy Carters new book: Palestine Peace Not Apartheid. Kinda gives some context to it, doesn’t it?

H/T: Bryan at Hotair has the rest of the details here.