Posted on 12/16/2006 7:23:43 AM PST by george76
Former President Carter turned down a request to debate Alan Dershowitz about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying the outspoken Harvard law professor "knows nothing about the situation."
Carter, author of a new book advocating "peace not apartheid" in the region, said he will not visit Brandeis University to discuss the book because the university requested he debate Dershowitz.
"I don't want to have a conversation even indirectly with Dershowitz," Carter said in Friday's Boston Globe. "There is no need ... to debate somebody who, in my opinion, knows nothing about the situation in Palestine."
"President Carter said he wrote the book because he wanted to encourage more debate; then why won't he debate?" said Dershowitz,...
Brandeis was founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian university under the sponsorship of the American Jewish community. Carter said he initially was interested in going there.
"I thought it would be a good idea to go to a campus that had a lot of Jewish students and get a lot questions," he said. But then the initial proposal evolved into a plan for a debate.
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oh, this is way tooooo funny. Now you will have the Jewish intellectual elite, liberal as they may be, all chomping at the bit to debunk Carter.
"Especially not at Brandeis University, which even though it says it's non-sectarian, is attended and taught at and named after and founded by a passel of Jooooooos."
Because he knows so much about so little. He does know that 444 days of inactivity during a crisis situation get you unelected in the U.S.
SS
I'd pay to see that one!
Exactly right. Carter is nothing but a spiteful peckerwood who would delight in pulling rank on a bunch of dutifully respectful Jewish kids.
Billy was the better man.
Whatever his other loony left opinions, Dershowitz has always been eminently sane on Israel.
Maybe Jimmy "the father of the Islamic Republic of Iran" Carter got scared because he thought a rabbit might show up.
Jimmy Carter is a convenient liar.
The REAL Apartheid can be found in Saudi Arabia. Jews may not enter the country at all. Faiths other than Islam are supressed and forbidden. Non-muslims are forbidden to enter Mecca, the holiest city in Islam and a destination all muslims around the world in good standing must make pilgrimage to at least ONCE in their lives.
Islam means hate.
Until Jimmy Carter denounces the Saudi's apatheid nation, he will serve as an example of the Ugly American, in our history books. A Jew hater who sold us out to the muslim world.
Note I have not addressed the Palestine/Israel issue. I have pointed out a crippling example of hypocrisy from this shameful man.
I made that mistake once too!! About 30 years or so ago.
LOL Damn that's funny.....But I thought everybody already knew that, I mean it isn't like we haven't had opportunities to see what the little sumbitch is all about.
jimmy boy versus the man.
we can thank jimmy for one thing...he made it easier for Reagan to win.
little jimmy reminds me of a deer looking into my headlights.
jimmy tried to invade iran with a few helicopters...what a fool.
Thanks.
Remember jimmy's gas lines and interest rates !
convenient that the old media does not bring up these issues.
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