Posted on 11/20/2006 5:29:56 AM PST by Zakeet
The biggest shock in Jimmy Carter's new book, "Palestine: Peace not Apartheid," comes not from the title, but from the twisting of reality.
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Carter isn't writing for Arabs or Jews; he's aiming at American Christians, particularly the evangelicals who are among Israel's most ardent supporters.
Carter repeatedly refers to Israeli oppression of Christians, destruction of Christian holy sites and imprisonment of Bethlehem. He emphasizes Israel's secular nature in 1973 and makes dark allusions to the powerful pro-Israel lobby.
He asserts that Israel's security fence is a grotesque violation of international law but ignores its success at stopping suicide attacks; he praises Hamas for maintaining a cease-fire for two years and ignores the Qassam rockets raining on Sderot.
And he uses that buzzword, apartheid, which resonates with religious folks who fought to divest from South Africa in the 1980s. Carter hopes his book will inspire a similar grass-roots movement to undermine Israel and ruin the U.S.-Israel relationship.
"Palestine: Peace not Apartheid" is a poorly written, poorly argued, nonsensical little book, and it's the most dangerous weapon Israel has faced in a year full of fighting.
(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...
I recall him as a smug, arrogant, self-rightious little anti semitic prick then as well. IMHO, nothing much has changed with this guy over the years. He still hasn't meet a 3rd world thug he doesn't love.
I would hate to argue with such a colorful and accurate discription. However, I do think the evolution of Carter is improtant. Back when he was president, he was mostly afraid of those 3rd rate dictators, and did his best to turn America into a second rate nation (for our own good, don't you know). After Reagan exposed Carter for the dismal failure that he was, Carter really began to hate the US. "How dare they succeed, after I Jimmy the Great was such an abject disaster." That is when he started to love dictators. Afterall, anyone who hates the country as much as Jimmy must be a cool guy.
Jimmy's problems are probably rooted in eating instant grits instead of the real thing when he was a child, not getting enough hickory switches applied to his backside by Miss Lillian, and not having his quarterly high colonic in the past 20 years.
I saw stacks of his latest book on "apartheid" at a local Barnes & Noble last week, and I almost hurled! Jimmuh is like the bad relative that just plain will not take the hint and go the "ef" away!
This is not an AJC editorial, in so far as I can tell. It's an opinion piece written by Michael Jacobs, who is identified as the editor of an Atlanta Jewish newspaper.
This makes him qualified to pontificate to those of common sense, how?
<< Carter's book a distorted view of Israel >>
Carter's every view of the world is distorted.
By the distorting lens of the seething hatred of communism in "Christian" guise through which he "sees."
<< (carter) has become much more (un-and-)anti-American since the 80s. Back then, he was mostly incompetent. >>
Back then he was as much a self-loathing America hater as he is now.
All the has "changed" is that we have gotten to know the mean little bastard better. And his even more hateful, loathsome and fearsome spouse, Bruno, too.
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