Can anyone SOURCE this quote?

[Jay_Esbe]

"Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves."

The CLAIM is that it was said by Prime Minister Menachem Begin to President Carter.

The quote shows up hundreds of times on the internet. I want to know if anyone can find a demonstrably legitimate source showing that President Carter made this allegation. I will not consider the web pages of non-professionals as a legitimate source. If a US President actually said this, there SHOULD be a trustworthy source for it somewhere.

I want to know if it's genuine.

[Fair &Balanced Who Ca]

"Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves."

The CLAIM is that it was said by Prime Minister Menachem Begin to President Carter.

The quote shows up hundreds of times on the internet. I want to know if anyone can find a demonstrably legitimate source showing that President Carter made this allegation. I will not consider the web pages of non-professionals as a legitimate source. If a US President actually said this, there SHOULD be a trustworthy source for it somewhere.

I want to know if it's genuine.



Dear Archivist, Jimmy Carter Library
I have read an article by Texe Marrs that has the following passage:

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No Basis for Peace

In his memoirs of his years in the White House, former President Jimmy Carter wrote that there could have been peace between the Arabs and the Israelis had it not been for the bigoted, Nazi-like racial views of Israeli's Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

Begin, Carter recalled, believed the Jews were a Master Race, a holy people superior to Egyptians and Arabs. Begin also believed that God wanted the Jews to own the land, so there was absolutely no basis for peace. The Jews lusted after the land and intended to have it. Period.

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Texe Marrs does not reference the above as a quote nor as a footnote.

My question is did President Carter write the above in his memoirs?

Thank you for any help you can give me to ascertain the truth in this matter.



Reply follows:

Dear Kirk:

There is scarcely one true statement in the article quote you sent us. Carter DID bring about a peace treaty (that has stood for almost 30 years) between Egypt and Israel. Begin and Sadat DID sign the treaty, so obviously Begin was not the hold up. Menachem Begin may have apprehension about Arabs, but that is far from accusing him of being Nazi-like and racist. Carter, who has never been a name-caller, certainly did not use these terms in his memoirs.

Begin, like many Israelis, may have thought the Jews were a "Chosen People" (after all, the Bible calls them that) but that is far from assuming that they were a "master race", above all others. In their role as a "Chosen People" the Jews have been as much chastised by God as rewarded. Far from it being a fact that "The Jews lusted after the land and intended to have it" the majority of Israelis were glad to surrender the Sinai and some other land in order to secure the Camp David accords.

Your Texe Marrs sounds a bit "Nazi-like" and "racist" himself. Playing fast and loose with the facts, he seems to want to recruit Jimmy Carter as an unwillling testimony to his anti-semitism. It is no wonder he does not cite his source for his quotes. In neither "Keeping Faith" nor "The Blood of Abraham", Carter's two main writings on the Israeli peace negotiations, does Carter say anything harsh about Begin, though they did not always agree.

Hope this answers your question.

Albert Nason

Archivist, Jimmy Carter Library
Carter Library

[Jay_Esbe]

Dear Archivist, Jimmy Carter Library
I have read an article by Texe Marrs that has the following passage:

*****

No Basis for Peace

In his memoirs of his years in the White House, former President Jimmy Carter wrote that there could have been peace between the Arabs and the Israelis had it not been for the bigoted, Nazi-like racial views of Israeli's Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

Begin, Carter recalled, believed the Jews were a Master Race, a holy people superior to Egyptians and Arabs. Begin also believed that God wanted the Jews to own the land, so there was absolutely no basis for peace. The Jews lusted after the land and intended to have it. Period.

******

Texe Marrs does not reference the above as a quote nor as a footnote.

My question is did President Carter write the above in his memoirs?

Thank you for any help you can give me to ascertain the truth in this matter.



Reply follows:

Dear Kirk:

There is scarcely one true statement in the article quote you sent us. Carter DID bring about a peace treaty (that has stood for almost 30 years) between Egypt and Israel. Begin and Sadat DID sign the treaty, so obviously Begin was not the hold up. Menachem Begin may have apprehension about Arabs, but that is far from accusing him of being Nazi-like and racist. Carter, who has never been a name-caller, certainly did not use these terms in his memoirs.

Begin, like many Israelis, may have thought the Jews were a "Chosen People" (after all, the Bible calls them that) but that is far from assuming that they were a "master race", above all others. In their role as a "Chosen People" the Jews have been as much chastised by God as rewarded. Far from it being a fact that "The Jews lusted after the land and intended to have it" the majority of Israelis were glad to surrender the Sinai and some other land in order to secure the Camp David accords.

Your Texe Marrs sounds a bit "Nazi-like" and "racist" himself. Playing fast and loose with the facts, he seems to want to recruit Jimmy Carter as an unwillling testimony to his anti-semitism. It is no wonder he does not cite his source for his quotes. In neither "Keeping Faith" nor "The Blood of Abraham", Carter's two main writings on the Israeli peace negotiations, does Carter say anything harsh about Begin, though they did not always agree.

Hope this answers your question.

Albert Nason

Archivist, Jimmy Carter Library
Carter Library


Thank you. I doubted it's authenticity.

[Jay_Esbe]

As a footnote to this, I think people using this quote ought to be made aware that it's been disavowed by a representitive of Jimmy Carter, given the damaging destructive nature of the statements.

[Lib]

Source this one: "human beings, apart from Muslims, are animals who roam the earth and engage in corruption".