Posted on 12/06/2006 11:01:05 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
A longtime aide to Jimmy Carter has resigned from the Carter Center think tank, calling the former president's new book on Israel and the Arabs one-sided and filled with errors.
Kenneth Stein, the Carter Center's first executive director and founder of its Middle East program, sent a letter that bluntly criticized the book to Carter and others.
Stein wrote that the book, "Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid," was replete with factual errors, material copied from other sources and "simply invented segments," according to an excerpt of the letter published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Deanna Congileo, Carter's spokeswoman, said the former president stands by the book.
Stein, who is also director of the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel at Emory University, did not immediately return a call Wednesday.
Carter issued a brief statement saying that Stein had not been actively involved with the center for more than 12 years and was not involved with the new book. Carter did not directly address Stein's allegations.
It is not the first time Carter and Stein have disagreed over Middle East policy, said Douglas Brinkley, a professor of history at Tulane University and the author of the 1988 Carter biography, "The Unfinished Presidency."
"They've never been on the same page in the Middle East. They've been in an almost constant state of disagreement," Brinkley said. Stein "doesn't trust the Palestinians as much as Carter."
Brinkley said he has read Carter's new book but would not address Stein's accusations.
It warms the heart to finally see Jimmy get a taste. It's just a shame that it comes so late to the old bastard.
Coward
Jimmy Carter is a disgrace to the USA.
Regards, Ivan
*snort* I LOVE "Blackadder"!
Whole parts of his presidency were "Invented segments".
I'll never forget this idiot sitting there with a sweater on and telling us we must do the same to conserve energy.
But I guess the sweater *is* the symbol of the DNC.
Whole parts of his presidency were "Invented segments".
I'll never forget this idiot sitting there with a sweater on and telling us we must do the same to conserve energy.
But I guess the sweater *is* the symbol of the DNC.
How does Jimmy Carter have any credibility on foreign policy after letting Iranian college students hold Americans hostage and then making a phony pact with Kim-Jong Il that bought him enough time to build a nuclear weapons program with American money?
I bet Jimmy is glad Hellary is now running for POTUS. He now stands to lose his title as worst President of all time. On the other hand, maybe he is is proud of that title judging how he acts.
Running out of holes to move pegs down into.......
In this case I'll go with Stein.
I mean where have they shown any signs of being trustworthy?
"A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue." Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
In this case the Palestinians take the cake on both evils, murder and murder suicide. We call it terrorism, folks, and there is no justification for this evil inflicted upon innocents.
Stupid is as stupid does ...and says, Jimmah's case here.
Some of us have long known that Jimmah talks out of both sides of his peanut hole.
Whew! I thought for a minute this may have referred to his book "Ah'll nevah lie to you".
Well, at least he didn't lie here. Jimmuh just blatantly made up facts.
Seems like Jimmah has not only sin in his heart when he reads books like Playboy but also when he writes books. Hehehe.
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