Posted on 09/04/2007 2:07:18 PM PDT by SmithL
NEW YORK, (AP) --
In a new afterword to his controversial "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid," former President Carter criticizes the lack of "balanced debate" in the U.S. about the Middle East and warns officials against being "seen as knee-jerk supporters of every action and policy" of the Israeli government.
Carter's book, a best-seller first published last year, accuses Israel of harshly mistreating the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Carter has said that conditions there merit the word "apartheid," associated with the former system of racial segregation and oppression in South Africa.
Jewish groups and some fellow Democrats strongly objected to the book and more than a dozen members of the Carter Center's advisory board, based in Atlanta, resigned in protest.
"In the course of my life I have done things that have provoked controversy," Carter writes in the paperback edition, which has just been released.
"In some cases, I admit the criticisms may have been justified. Nothing in the past, however, equaled the outpouring that followed the publication of `Palestine Peace Not Apartheid.'"
Carter, who in 1978 helped negotiate the historic Camp David agreements between Israel and Egypt, writes in the afterword that he has always been a strong supporter of Israel, but also favors a homeland for the Palestinians.
In calling for renewed efforts to bring peace to the Middle East, Carter worries that Americans not be seen as "in the pocket" of Israelis or Arabs.
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10 out of 10 terrorists vote Democrat.
This guy’s about twenty years late for a date with the Grim Reaper. What a worthless liver-spot festooned piece of human crap.
Why are we still indulging this pip squeak of a man?
Nothing says “balanced” like a guy who lost the 1980 electoral vote 489 to 49.
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We should probably “balance” the aspirations of bank robbers and security guards as well.
Excuse me while I yawn.
I probably shouldn’t read these threads — I haven’t cared what Carter thinks in a long time.
Some people point to the Iranian revolution of ‘79 and the hostage crisis as events which helped lead to where we are today. That is a good spot in history to show where radical Islam can take a country.
Jimmy was impotent to take strong action during the hostage crisis. He was very reluctant to take military action. The hostages were released the very day that he left office. Which was perhaps due to Ronald Reagan taking office that day. Reagan had called the kidnappers “barbarians”, which shocked some people, but also may have led to the release of the hostages. The Iranian “students” may have preferred to deal with Carter than Reagan, who knows.
I doubt his book is a ‘best seller’. Publishing houses routinely purchase numerous books authored by Liberals so they can crow about ‘hugh’ sales.
In that part of the World, showing weakness invites further attacks. Carter’s impotent reaction to the Iranian seizing of the US Embassy in Teheran was a lesson well-learned by the Islamic militants.
If we had come down on the Iranians like a ton of bricks, who knows how much violence could have been prevented. And nobody in the World would have blamed us. Protecting embassies is something that everybody can agree on.
This dilusional bucket of horse sweat still doesn’t get it.
Can he seriously say the US is in the Iraeli’s pocket. My God, hasn’t he seen the non-stop calls for Israel to give up this or that, to grant this or that? Israel is taken to task frequently by the US, to the point of pure absurdity.
Jimmy, what did turning over the Gaza strip accomplish? Think real hard now. What did it accomplish?
What it accomplished was to install a Hamas stronghold in the midst of Israel. Israel’s peace offerings never got it a moments rest. As soon as Gaza was set free, Israel was under attack. My what a positive peace outcome.
The problem is, you and your ilk never remember these peace dividends. You’re alway off to the next thing Israel can give up on in the interest of peace.
No, I don’t necessarily want the US to be in Israel’s pocket, but I sure has hell will never sit still for it being in the Palestinian’s pocket, and that’s more or less where we are today.
Frankly I’m sick of people like you who have never EVER expressed appreciation for anything Israel has done, and have always chewed it a new one for not doing more.
F you Carter. You’re like a disease. People read your tripe from the Middle-East and gain confidence that their goal of pushing Israel into the Med is just beyond the horizon.
You’re despicable.
Are you series?
Jimmy Carter. Is he still alive?
So he’s flip-flopped again?
It would be hard to recall a better time in my life than when this failure was given the boot.
Maybe he should go to the middle east so he can be in the line of fire from the Israelis and his peace-loving friends, Hezbollah.
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Why is Jimmy’s opinion so sought after regarding Middle Eastern matters, when he was a failure as president in dealing with said issues?
I guess because Amy had all the opinions on Nuclear Proliferation.
Someone needs to send Jimmahs butt off to a funny farm, too bad it didn’t happen 40 years ago! Be nice, he really is a retard and can’t help it!
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