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 is my dream to someday write an historical piece that Doris steals. Apparently, it's not all that difficult. If she likes something, it's hers.
Kinda like Chinese Patent Law.
Dr. Stein was on Fox news during the past few days and totally exposed Carter's book. He stated the book was based on unvarnished analysis by Carter, it was replete with factual errors, copied materials and maps were not cited, superficialities, glarring omissions and totally invented segments of what he (Carter) wanted a situation to be. Dennis Ross, a Fox news anaylist on Israel and the middle east said the maps in Carters book never existed until he(Ross) created them. Carter said he got the maps out of a map book.....sic!! Carter needs for someone somplace to stick a soc in his mouth, and banish him to his rocking chair on the front porch on the peanut farm. Everytime he opens his mouth he hurts America. He is an ex president, but doesn't know how to keep his mouth shut and in time of war, that is dangerous!
Doris Kearns school of writing, uh?? Wonderful..seems like all the Democrats send their ex presidents to that school...Clinton graduated summa cum laude..but I must say his writings were a little more colorful. Seems they need a few more classes on how to copy a little better..we should check with Ms. Kearns on that!!
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