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Carter Accuses Jewish Group of ‘Slander’ After Questioning Controversial Book
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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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carter; jimmuh; jimmycarter; peanut
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1 posted on 02/07/2007 8:41:25 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Palistine: No peace without apartheid.


2 posted on 02/07/2007 8:45:16 AM PST by Ouderkirk (Don't you think it's interesting how death and destruction seems to happen wherever Muslims gather.)
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To: Sub-Driver
"I don't believe Simon Wiesenthal would have resorted to falsehood and slander to raise funds,"

i dont believe an American President would have resorted to falsehood and slander against the Jewish people and kowtowing to the terrorists.

3 posted on 02/07/2007 8:45:29 AM PST by APRPEH (id theft info available on my profile page)
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To: Sub-Driver

"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"?


4 posted on 02/07/2007 8:46:40 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: Sub-Driver

Carter: The ideal mix of stupidity, treason, and pro-terrorist hatred of America.


5 posted on 02/07/2007 8:49:36 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: traderrob6

Because he's a Democrat, silly.

;-)


6 posted on 02/07/2007 8:50:31 AM PST by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: Sub-Driver

No, Wiesenthal would not have resulted to falsehood to raise money; Carter, however....


7 posted on 02/07/2007 8:52:53 AM PST by twonie (Just because there are fewer of us don't mean we are wrong.)
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To: traderrob6

I just fired into the crowd. I didn't mean to hit anyone.


8 posted on 02/07/2007 8:57:11 AM PST by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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To: savedbygrace
They want to be called Democraticks!

Sucking the life-blood from one American to give to another American or Illegal Immigrant.

9 posted on 02/07/2007 8:59:46 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Sub-Driver
"I don't believe Simon Wiesenthal would have resorted to falsehood and slander to raise funds," Carter wrote

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.

10 posted on 02/07/2007 9:00:09 AM PST by hsalaw
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


11 posted on 02/07/2007 9:01:08 AM PST by FormerACLUmember
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To: Sub-Driver
Here is link at Simon Wiesenthal Center for the petition. I would have liked to have edited it some but sent it as is unways.

http://www.wiesenthal.com/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=2279523

12 posted on 02/07/2007 9:05:25 AM PST by free_life
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To: Sub-Driver

"It's the Joooooozzzzz......."

stated Carter.....


13 posted on 02/07/2007 9:08:41 AM PST by nevergore (?It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.?)
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To: APRPEH
i dont believe an American President would have resorted to falsehood and slander against the Jewish people and kowtowing to the terrorists

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.

14 posted on 02/07/2007 9:09:02 AM PST by magslinger (Ask Dad. He'll know. And on the off chance he doesn't, he'll make up something good.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Peanut Jimmie will never get it right because he has too many connections in his brain mixed up.


15 posted on 02/07/2007 9:09:40 AM PST by hgro
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To: magslinger

A statement about America not carter.....


16 posted on 02/07/2007 9:12:17 AM PST by APRPEH (id theft info available on my profile page)
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To: traderrob6
"Just how is saying he didn't mean to offend anyone considered a "defense"?"

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.

17 posted on 02/07/2007 9:12:57 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: traderrob6

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.


18 posted on 02/07/2007 9:13:50 AM PST by Farmer Dean (Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
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To: savedbygrace

He's a Democrat says it all.


19 posted on 02/07/2007 9:14:01 AM PST by chiefqc
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To: APRPEH
Sorry. Two and a half years with that doofus as my CINC and having to suck it in still makes me overreact.
20 posted on 02/07/2007 9:20:12 AM PST by magslinger (Ask Dad. He'll know. And on the off chance he doesn't, he'll make up something good.)
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