Posted on 02/07/2007 8:41:22 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Carter Accuses Jewish Group of Slander After Questioning Controversial Book
Wednesday, February 07, 2007 By Melissa Drosjack
WASHINGTON Jimmy Carter has accused an international Jewish human rights group of "falsehood and slander" for launching a petition that resulted in thousands of signatures being sent to the former president in protest of his controversial book about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"I don't believe Simon Wiesenthal would have resorted to falsehood and slander to raise funds," Carter wrote last month in a handwritten letter to the head of the human rights center that bears the name of the late Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter. The petition does not require payment to be sent, though Carter's letter suggests it is being used as a fundraising tool.
"I believe that Simon Wiesenthal would have been as outraged by your book, 'Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,' as I was," Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Los Angeles-based center, wrote in a Feb. 2 response to Carter.
Carter's fiery exchange with Hier is the latest in the controversy over the book, which last year prompted resignations of a longtime Carter aide and 14 members of a Carter Center board.
Critics allege the book contains inaccuracies and distorts history to shape the reader's opinion to one side of the issue. Carter has defended the book, saying he didn't mean to offend anyone.
Hier sent 25,000 signed petitions to the Carter Center to show concern over the book among the Jewish community. The center's online petition called visitors to "act now against President Carter's one-sided bias against Israel."
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Palistine: No peace without apartheid.
i dont believe an American President would have resorted to falsehood and slander against the Jewish people and kowtowing to the terrorists.
"Carter has defended the book, saying he didn't mean to offend anyone."
Just how is saying he didn't mean to offend anyone considered a "defense"?
Carter: The ideal mix of stupidity, treason, and pro-terrorist hatred of America.
Because he's a Democrat, silly.
;-)
No, Wiesenthal would not have resulted to falsehood to raise money; Carter, however....
I just fired into the crowd. I didn't mean to hit anyone.
Sucking the life-blood from one American to give to another American or Illegal Immigrant.
This is exactly what Carter did when he wrote that stupid book. I wish he'd just sit down and shut up. You never hear of a Republican former president or vice president going around the world bashing the United States, but that lame old fool Carter, "Kiss It" Clinton, and Chicken Little "the sky is falling" Gore do it all the time. Disgusting.
Carter is actually a fairly typical democrat party anti-semite. Just read the Daily Kos, DU, or MoveOn.org to prove this.
Yet the lemming-like Jews always vote (and economically support) overwhelmingly for this evil political party, which hates them. Always a total mystery to me.
http://www.wiesenthal.com/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=2279523
"It's the Joooooozzzzz......."
stated Carter.....
If you don't believe it, I can only say that you haven't been watching Runs-From-Rabbits close enough. There is nothing that he would not stoop to in order to leave more of a legacy than an American embassy occupied by Almondjihad and company.
Peanut Jimmie will never get it right because he has too many connections in his brain mixed up.
A statement about America not carter.....
Since his "lies" were merely remarks with which people took offense, maybe saying he didn't mean to offend is the only response he could give.
Now the useless turd thinks he has the right to tell people when they can be offended by him?That's a lot of brass even for a left wing nut like him.
He's a Democrat says it all.
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