Philip Giraldi — The Unz Review Jan 3, 2025
The death of former President Jimmy Carter started me thinking about how long it’s been since the United States has been led by a head of state who was also a thoroughly decent human being. To be sure, while in office Carter made many mistakes in terms of both foreign and national security policy, but much can be attributed to his inexperience and his unfortunate reliance on hardliners in his cabinet, most particularly Russophobe Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was his National Security Adviser. The neocons were also beginning to make their presence felt while scheming and conspiring under the protection of Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson, the so-called Senator from Boeing. After failing to get reelected in 1980, Carter dedicated much of his life to helping people worldwide through a foundation that he established and he was renowned for speaking his mind when he observed a human rights problem that might be addressed.
I personally had my five minutes face-to-face with Jimmy Carter while he was still president and he, to my mind, demonstrated to me what kind of man he truly was. I was part of the CIA station in a European country and one of my first jobs was to set up a huge funding operation, referred to as a covert action, to subvert and overthrow a government in another part of the world that the Agency and US State Department did not approve of. My role was to convince one of the political parties in the country where I was based to exploit its friendly relations with another country next door to the target to secretly establish a clandestine base for a guerrilla movement that would be engaged in subverting its neighbor. It would create a double-cutout that would serve as a conduit to fund and arm the rebels using two foreign political parties, concealing the US role in the intended regime change as was appropriate for a “covert action.”
After many quiet meetings with the local politicians to include considerable bribery and pledges of secrecy an arrangement was made, but one week later a senior CIA officer flew in from Washington and came by the Embassy to tell me and the Chief of Station that that deal was off. He provided no reasons for the change of heart, but we were disappointed as it had been a lot of work and was apparently successful from the perspective of what the policy makers had asked us to do. The European partner political party central to the plan, and expecting to profit greatly from it, was informed of the decision and expressed its anger in no uncertain terms by breaking off contact with me and the Station.
As it happened, President Jimmy Carter made a visit to the same European capital city two months later and stopped by the US Embassy. To my astonishment, he asked to see me privately in the Ambassador’s office and both apologized and explained that the change in plans had been caused by the realization that the US would be arming and paying for insurgents who would no doubt kill significant numbers of civilians. He explained that that was a price too high to pay and the sordid arrangement might even be leaked to the media with an election coming up. I thanked him for the background information and we parted. I had the impression from his language and demeanor that he, rather than some power mad bureaucrat at CIA or State, had personally made the decision to abort the operation at least partly due to his own moral reservations.
Thinking about my encounter with Jimmy Carter in the context of his death, indeed more about his life and his fundamental decency, I considered what it might be like if we Americans again had someone like him in government. As many readers will be aware, Carter was particularly outspoken about what was being done to the Palestinians by Israel. He was roasted and called an antisemite by America’s Israel Lobby after he displayed the temerity to defend the Palestinians and criticize Israeli behavior in his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, which was published in 2006. Few in the Democratic Party were brave enough to stand up for him and the politicians that followed him received the message that calling out Israel would not be tolerated, so they generally shut themselves off from any sympathy for the victims of Israeli aggression, saying rhythmically and over-and-over again like a satanic chorus that “Israel has a right to defend itself!”
The death of Carter triggered another possible initiative to be considered as reflected in an email I had received from a friend in the peace movement the day before. My friend was complaining about the lack of any condemnation from world leaders for what is occurring in Palestine and she asked herself what would happen if someone like Pope Francis were to travel to Gaza in a peacekeeping role. Surely even monsters like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would have to pay attention to the possible impact of such a proposal and would have to let the Pope visit with the remaining Catholic community in Gaza to help ease their suffering. The Vatican has, in fact, already put out feelers in that direction. On December 22nd it convinced Israeli authorities to allow Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the leader of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, to enter Gaza and celebrate a pre-Christmas Mass with surviving members of the territory’s small Christian community. A more aggressive move involving the Pope himself might even lead to a ceasefire and something like a peace arrangement that would enable the two communities to work out some formula to live side by side even though it is difficult to imagine such an outcome given the hardline of the Israeli government and its clear intention to proceed with the elimination of the Palestinians.
Organized Christianity, apparently terrified of being labeled antisemitic by the usual strident voices in the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), has been largely silent and ineffective when confronted by the systematic Israeli destruction of the Christian faith in the land where it was born. Indeed, America’s largely Bible belt Christian Zionists generally applaud Israeli suppression of what it agrees to call “terrorists.” Pope Francis has in fact bravely spoken out about Gaza and has been as a consequence attacked by the Israeli government and the usual suspects in Europe and the US. Nevertheless, there is no official Catholic church pronouncement on Israel/Palestine as far as I have been able to determine except for calls for peace and a ceasefire, though there are a few activists who have been demanding that a more definitive position be developed. Some American Catholics have even been demonstrating and holding signs in front of churches and diocesan offices urging Pope Francis to go to Gaza. Can individual Catholics persuade their parish priests to take a stronger line and pressure bishops and the church hierarchy to “do something?” I am convinced that this is a movement that is just waiting to happen and that once it starts it will capture the public imagination because it attacks a genocidal horror and is manifestly the right thing to do. Certainly, those who believe that life and also freedom of worship are gifts from God have seen enough posters of dead babies and desecrated churches and hospitals to begin to demand that the Church must harness its moral authority to the cause of peace and make it happen.
Some are arguing against a Papal trip to Gaza based on the security issue, that Netanyahu is quite willing and capable of having the Pope killed and setting up a “false flag” scenario blaming it on the Palestinians, a line which will be eagerly picked up and “verified” by the corrupted governments and Zionist controlled media in Washington and London just for starters. Pope Francis is quite old and in poor health, so he might well regard such an Apostolic trip on a peace mission as a final high point that would actually accomplish something of real value during his time on the Throne of Saint Peter. It would certainly be a historic gesture that could well turn the horrors taking place in the Middle East in a new direction. I am sure that Jimmy Carter, if he were still with us, would approve.
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is inform@cnionline.org
i loved the purity and honesty of this article
thankyou and thankyou rixon for the time and effort you put in on the site
if you really want to be a christian, then raise an army, like the crusades, and slaughter all the jews.
July 4th 2026 is the US republic’s 250th anniversary. In all that time they’ve only known 17 years without a war. 4 of those years were under Jimmy Carter, though his administration through Zbigniew did drag the Soviets into Afghanistan which hastened their collapse. Yet they dislike him more than any modern President. Maybe that peace is the real reason why, because he didn’t attack anyone to steal what’s theirs.
Francis should sit together with Satanjahu in his
bunker because they are both satanists !
Carter was a Commie scumbag–establishing some organization that builds homes for wogs. Most likely a quadroon or octoroon.
wow another roman catholic cia scumbag controlling the alt news media for us
The UNZ review: another Jew-Catholic controlled ‘alt news’ media outlet.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
The Pope does not have to go anywhere. All he has to do is to back off from the great ecumenical flop of watering down everything Catholic and truly Christian by blessing homosexual coupling, and saying such nonsense as all religions lead to God. He has to simply proclaim that Christ is King, the Son of God, who came to draw the battlelines between the kingdom of heaven in our lives and the regime of Satan running the world. It is only from that point of view, and not from the fake namby pamby one which the prelates have been pushing for the past decades, that he can have any real moral authority or real influence in the world as the rock Peter was appointed to be, in administrating matters of faith and morals. Only from that point of view can he tweak the Jewish conscience BY OPENLY PRAYING FOR THE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS TO CHRIST.
It is mainly because of Jewish threats and their controls over our governments and my Church that beginning in the 1960’s there was a Vatican ban in praying for the “conversion” of the Jews. No doubt that was due to the very same type of ruthless intimidation tactics they impose on all other organizations and individuals who fail to give them a pass regarding their ruthless takeover tactics, all of which come from their narrow and exclusive neighbor principle killing their consciences as to the methods they employ for their gains. Nothing can be mire ANIT-SEMITIC THAN Failing to extend to and share with the Jews the greatest gift of God to mankind, which is Christ.
Shortly after the ruthless purge of the Palestinians which began on October 7, Netanyahu warned the Vatican not to interfere with their deeds. For the most part, the Vatican has not dared to condemn the atrocities and ethnic cleansing operations.
What is this evil power which the Jews have over my Church, I have to ask? We know that it is the Rothschild dynasty which has claimed credit for the “creation” of Israel. They make no bones about it and all you have to do is to read about the exploits of the late Victor Rothschild and his son, the recently deceased Jacob in that respect. This is the clan and dynasty which is in control of the global money power and feels it can make or break any organization or person it wants to. As the lust for money and power is the essence of mammon and Satan’s powers over us, the Rothchild dynasty is in many ways anti-Christ. It took over the UK following Waterloo and following the US Civil war, within two short decades its money power took over the US.
Not only does Netanyahu rely on threats and terror from his Mossad units, but he also is subject to the directions of the Rothschild dynasty, and in carrying out their wishes for a much Greater Israel, no doubt his warning to the Vatican and the Catholic Church (which is the largest organization in the world) is that with their control of the media, trade, legislatures, and the courts, if they “interfere” they will use their powers to bankrupt the Church. That being the case and as Satan does fear the power of prayer, not only should all Christians pray for the conversion of the Jews, but they also should be praying for the conversion of the Rothschild’s to Christ, as well as that wily little devil, Mr. Netanyahu.
BS. Carter was a CFR-Commie agent of the Jews.
Globalist shithole Jimmy Carter was close friends with Bill and Melinda and enjoyed being photographed with little African children .. this dogoody helped Mugabe and Mandela rise to power, both commies totally corrupted former Rhodesia and S. Africa ..
hal doesn’t comprehend that christians were created to worship a Jew
What an exposé of US amoral foreign policy. However, most people in the West and especially in the US will just yawn at Giraldi’s statement from the above:
“I was part of the CIA station in a European country and one of my first jobs was to set up a huge funding operation, referred to as a covert action, to subvert and overthrow a government in another part of the world that the Agency and US State Department did not approve of. My role was to convince one of the political parties in the country where I was based to exploit its friendly relations with another country next door to the target to secretly establish a clandestine base for a guerrilla movement that would be engaged in subverting its neighbor. It would create a double-cutout that would serve as a conduit to fund and arm the rebels using two foreign political parties, concealing the US role in the intended regime change as was appropriate for a “covert action.””
Only Carter with his Christian principles had the guts to intervein in the US power structure to say such methods were essentially EVIL, and that is exactly why Carter was a “one-term” President. He would not do what was dictated by the sociopaths running the nation, and he actually “interfered” with their plans and methods. He got off lucky because any other President who did not obey the diktats of the US deep state and their money-power lords was simply physically terminated.
The greatest yawners, no doubt, are the Americans who know that an active and informed conscience is anathema to climbing the ladders of wealth, power, and “success”. There is a difference in the concept of personal freedom between the more socialistic Canadians and the more libertine Americans. However, both people are equally amoral and chose to be equally oblivious to the evils practiced by their governments. For business ends the US, nevertheless, has a greater market and so there are greater opportunities, but with their wealth and power they have sunk into a depravity in which the people chose to remain oblivious to snuffing out any foreign competitor to their designs, as if all is fair in money making and war.
Why the world now has to reject any US influence in their affairs is because the entire nation is out of control. Americans will posit any excuse for their proxy wars and atrocities around the world. Their people thinking they have some kind of God-given right to suppress and destroy any people or nation struggling for self determination. and opposing their avaricious appetites. After the 19th century they shucked off any residual Christian virtue they had in their foreign relations, and any we saw in the 20th century was from the fumes left over from the 17th century. They think that their spirit of liberty is all so very supreme and hallowed and somehow is innate without any cultivation or maintenance. However, what it has morphed into from the time of their founding fathers is a liberty of the powerful over the weak, and without any real Christian restraints. They freely think that they can stomp around the world to loot and to kill anyone they want to as long as their victims are not “Americans”.
The very founding of the nation was upon a huge Christian basis, as were their Bill of Rights, and their Declaration of Independence, both of which owed so much to the earlier John Locke, who just happened to be a devout Christian, and the bulk of the American population at the later time of the Revolution also looked to the Gospels for their essential guidance in life, including their business dealings. Even today the 1776 types think that by a simply returning to their Constitution which spells out the divisions of powers and sets out a system of checks and balances, that such will be some kind of cure-all. Nothing could be further from the truth. All that can arise from thinking their Constitution is so holy is more tensions and another pretext where they can claim to the rest of the world that there are so-called “good” elements in the nation working to reform their ways.
There is no top-down systemic cures for the evils of the world, or in any nation, without those in positions of power having a higher authority than themselves, and who also believe in eternal consequences to themselves in the exercise of their powers, and who are bound and restrained by the laws of God.
Mr. Peanut has more to offer than Mr. Carter had as president.
pope francis is a jew, a globalist jew, a satanist
like his master Rothschild who has all money
of vatican in his hands .
and only Rothschild knows where the robbed gold
of Tipu Sultan, german gold, Gadaffis gold + Sadam
Husseins gold is .
This moral crisis of Christians allied with Jews is the real problem destroying the west:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/01/chuck-baldwin/2024-the-year-evangelicals-took-fellowship-with-devils/
“In truth, just about all the evil emanating from Washington, D.C., these days is the result of evangelicalism’s theological crisis: a flagrant crisis of truth regarding faux Israel, the New Covenant people of God and End-Times teaching.
America’s politicians have lost their conscience because America’s pastors have lost their conscience.
What the Israelis are doing in Palestine is the work of devils. And the Israelis that are doing this work are the workers of the devil. And the U.S. government—the White House and U.S. Congress—are themselves engaged in the work of devils and are themselves the workers of the devil.
And worst of all, evangelical Christians in America have taken fellowship with devils.”
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The problem of course is much bigger – humanity has been seduced and mislead by the Jew Bible. Christians are married to Jewish theology and thus Israel. The real evil is the Bible itself, and the faith it creates – a distorted view of reality in which the believer thinks he can beat death by believing in a Jewish savior.
Christianity is a death cult married to the Jewish death machine – and the result is hell on earth. Jews can not operate in a vacuum – they must have support of millions of Christians who vote for politicians who support Israel.
These Bible beliefs and support of Israel are openly talked about – by Jimmy Carter back then and Senator Lindsey Graham. Amerikan foreign policy is pro-Israel because Amerika is a Christian nation subverted by the Holy Bible.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2024-12-29/ty-article/.premium/jimmy-carter-the-unsung-and-often-reviled-hero-of-the-jewish-people/00000186-ab5d-d3d5-a7e7-ab5df5e30000
The root cause of hell is belief in that Jew book, yet not one person on this planet, save me, points it out – which means the world is completely mad.
Jimmy Carter said that Christian Americans view themselves as Hebrews because of their beliefs:
“People in the United States, including me, are naturally inclined to support Israel. I’m an evangelical Christian who teaches the Bible every Sunday at my church. I teach half the Old Testament and half the New Testament. We Americans identify the Hebrews, the Israelites, with ourselves.” – Jimmy Carter quote
HELL IS CAUSED BY BELIEF IN THE BIBLE
THE REASON THE USA IS SO IMMORAL AND EVIL IS BECAUSE SO MANY AMERIKANS BELIEVE THE HOLY BIBLE AS THE WORD OF GOD, WHEN IT IS REALLY THE LIES OF THE JEWS
NO GOD EVER CHOSE ONE TRIBE
NO GOD EVER JUDGES MAN
NO GOD EVER INCARNATED HERE TO TAKE AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SIN OR AFTERLIFE – BOTH ARE GREAT DELUSIONS
THE SINS OF THE WORLD ARE CAUSED BY JEWS AND THOSE DUPES WHO BELIEVE JEWISH THEOLOGY AS THEIR GUIDE TO LIFE
The proof of Christians being evil is all revealed for all to see. Israel commits genocide and the choir section turns a blind eye.
gj comment (?) at https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/pope-francis-should-go-to-gaza/#comment-6933607
https://www.bitchute.com/video/AG7yFwizZkzO/
Should Bergoglio at all go to Gaza? Is he aware of what is going on what is going on beneath the Vatican / if Max Lowen is right – she might be right – he is complicit in what she reports about the satanic ritual abuse happening – still going strong – underneath the Holy See….( graphic stuff…)
https://unbroken.global/about-max/ Lowen is MK Ultra Survivor & a 360 therapist
1.41.22 `Consciousness is rising / Every negative thing they do is waking people up…….9/11 which they did is waking people up / like `covid´ / ´climate change´….
I was in MK Ultra and satanic rituals Under the Vatican” – Max Lowen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENeFy9L1toY
4.27 `Peoplle have a misconception what it is to be spiritual / new age a program all love & light / unicorns etc. just don´t look over here / don´t pay attention to evil / well thats convenient for evil..´
CIA O