Posted on 11/22/2006 5:25:25 PM PST by AmericanMade1776
Sometimes you really can tell a book by its cover. President Jimmy Carter's decision to title his new anti-Israel screed "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" (Simon & Schuster, 288 pages, $27) tells it all. His use of the loaded word "apartheid," suggesting an analogy to the hated policies of South Africa, is especially outrageous, considering his acknowledgment buried near the end of his shallow and superficial book that what is going on in Israel today "is unlike that in South Africa—not racism, but the acquisition of land." Nor does he explain that Israel's motivation for holding on to land it captured in a defensive war is the prevention of terrorism. Israel has tried, on several occasions, to exchange land for peace, and what it got instead was terrorism, rockets, and kidnappings launched from the returned land.
In fact, Palestinian-Arab terrorism is virtually missing from Mr. Carter's entire historical account, which blames nearly everything on Israel and almost nothing on the Palestinians. Incredibly, he asserts that the initial violence in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict occurred when "Jewish militants" attacked Arabs in 1939. The long history of Palestinian terrorism against Jews — which began in 1929, when the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem ordered the slaughter of more than 100 rabbis, students, and non-Zionist Sephardim whose families had lived in Hebron and other ancient Jewish cities for millennia — was motivated by religious bigotry. The Jews responded to this racist violence by establishing a defense force. There is no mention of the long history of Palestinian terrorism before the occupation, or of the Munich massacre and others inspired byYasser Arafat. There is not even a reference to the Karine A, the boatful of terrorist weapons ordered by Arafat in January 2002.
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Two entities I could care less about, carter and the palestians (small caps used to denote disrespect).
The better question would be who really wrote the book.
The World according to Jimmy Carter...."It would not have only been 444 Days"....Jimmy Carter goes on to state," If I'd have my way, it would have been 444,444,444,444 Days!!!!:-(
But Brother Billy would have been a better president.
This book is even being sold at my local supermarket! When I saw it yesterday I muttered "F*** Carter." Other folks shopping in the same aisle looked at me weird...
yeah, and how sad is that?
[CRASH] I'm sorry, I was just picking myself up off the floor after finding that I agree with Alan Dershowitz on something.
Good analysis.
"The book is even being sold in my local supermarket."
In the toilet paper aisle, perhaps?
Should have been titled "Peace, Not Apartheid, But Really It Isn't Even Close To Apartheid, Because It's About Land, Not Racism" but I guess a title as long as that doesn't fit well on the bestseller list, on which this book is sure to be. /s
Hey isnt he the guy that was President when our people were taken hostage and he did nothing for over a year and subjected our people to humiliation???? ( Read Bowden's book- Guests of the Ayatollah- If you feel the need to get really angry)
LOL.
Seriously, this book by President Carter, if as off base as Dershowitz states, is a travesty. The President should be greeted by protestors in my opinion.
Joe Scarborough just showed this picture...and has compared Bush's presidency with Carter's for the most inept.
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