Does that make me a bad person?

There are very few people alive today on whom I would wish something truly horrible.  I figure the really evil people in the world are amassing their own heavenly Din V'cheshbon (judgment and accounting)... Karma... or however you believe one's long-term reckoning is handled.

But former US president Dhimmy Carter is a special case. 

I just read with horror that not only has Carter gone on record with The Times of London regarding Israel's [alleged] nuclear arsenal (a bit of highly classified information that he no doubt gained access to in his role as US Commander in Chief), but he also told the Guardian (another UK daily) that Israel's embargo of Gaza is "one of the greatest human rights crimes on Earth."  He went on to say that "Most families in Gaza are eating only one meal per day. To see Europeans going along with this is embarrassing,"

OK, let's parse these two incredible moves:

1.  All US presidents are continually briefed on highly sensitive information about both allies and enemies.  As Commander in Chief of the US armed forces it is assumed he needs to know who is capable of what in case of war. 

But that information doesn't magically become declassified when he leaves office.  By revealing his knowledge of Israel's alleged nuclear arsenal, he has deliberately abused his position in order to strip Israel of one of its greatest strategic and diplomatic tools; nuclear ambiguity.   Worse still... he has done so in an effort to assure the world that Iran can't possibly have a secret nuclear weapons program since Israel's 'secret weapons' are common knowledge.

2.  The current situation in Gaza is 100% the doing of Hamas.  They are responsible for the daily rocket and mortar fire into Israel.  They are responsible for the daily attempts to infiltrate Israel and smuggle arms into Gaza by sea and from Egypt.  They are responsible for the frequent attacks on the Gaza crossings through which all humanitarian supplies (including fuel, food and medicine) must flow... effectively blocking Israel's (and the world's) best efforts to supply Gaza with its ongoing needs.  And lastly, they are responsible for creating artificial shortages of fuel, and for shutting down power generation to create the impression that Gaza has exhausted its last supplies.

The people of Gaza may very well be eating only one meal per day, but it isn't Israel's hand witholding the food... it is Hamas'.  They are cynically starving their own people in order to try to garner sympathy from useful idiots like Carter. 

Now, I don't get a daily briefing on world events the way Carter does from his staff.  And yet with no effort at all I can come up with several human rights crimes in Africa and Asia that make Gaza look downright prosperous by comparison! Carter's accusatory statement is nothing less than a deliberate attempt to blame Israel for the crimes Hamas is committing against its own people.

So what do I wish on Dhimmy Carter?

In a perfect world I would like to see Carter tried on espionage charges in the US for revealing classified information, and have him spend his remaining days in prison.  But you and I know this isn't going to happen. 

I would also enjoy seeing Carter stripped of whatever protection former president's enjoy and have him targeted the way any of Israel's enemy militants, planners and agents are targeted.  But we all know this won't happen either as it might put a small crimp in US/Israel relations.

So my fall-back position is wishing for something truly horrible to befall this evil enemy of Israel. 

Ideally, I'd prefer that Carter's cosmic punishment be of biblical proportions... boils, wasting, being turned into a pillar of salt, etc..  But hey... I'm easy.  I'd settle for having him smitten (smited?  smoted? oh forget it, you know what I mean), by one of the old stand-bys; stroke or heart-attack. 

Does that make me a bad person?