More Mush from the Wimp. But as Kenneth W. Stein writes in the Middle East Quarterly, Carter was president. His critics were not.
To support Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid's central theme that Israel is intransigent, Carter recasts Hamas as a moderate partner ready to negotiate with Israel. He launders its reputation both with careful word choice and omission. He uses the past tense, for example, to describe Hamas as an "Islamic militant group that opposed recognition of Israel [and] perpetrated acts of violence." Carter adds that he "urged them …to forgo violence." He omits mention that Hamas denies the right of a Jewish state to exist in the Middle East and the group's belief that historical Palestine belongs in its entirety to Muslims.
UPDATE: Carter has apologized for writing this:
"It is imperative that the general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups make it clear that they will end the suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism when international laws and the ultimate goals of the road map for peace are accepted by Israel." ... "That was a terribly worded sentence which implied, obviously in a ridiculous way, that I approved terrorism and terrorist acts against Israeli citizens," Carter says. "My publishers have been informed about that and the sentence has been changed in all future editions of the book."
The factual errors remain.
Dhimmi Carter never met a terrorist he did not like..
"Palestine: Peace WITH Apartheid".
There, this slight edit would be peanut brain's dream come true as well as a more apt title. Because if the palestinians took over Israel and established their cherished home
there would be apartheid in palestine. For what is dhimmitude but apartheid under a different name
and many times worse?
Stein does not go far enough. He does not include Carter's nauseating bullying and lack of sympathy for the Israelis at Camp David. Why not? Because at that time Kenneth Stein was at Carter's side, loyally helping Carter to browbeat Begin. And even today, as I heard him on the radio, I was amazed at how tentative he was, when he should have gone after this preposterous "apartheid" charge hammer and tongs, beginning with the "Muslim"/"Non-Muslim" signs all over Saudi Arabia. He should have noted what laws are in force in Muslim countries against non-Muslims,should have pointed out that Arabic is the second official language of Israel, that the Israeli state goes out of its way to teach Arabic to Jews, to support Arab educational institutions by opening the first universities ever for the "Palestinians" (neither Jordan nor Egypt did that), by providing free medical care of a quality undreamt-of anywhere in the Muslim countries to the Arabs, supports a museum of Islamic art, gives Arabs the right to vote, the right to elect Arabs to the Knesset and to endure the traitorous ravings of some of them, employs Arabs who are of proven loyalty in the diplomatic corps (a recent Israeli ambassador to Finland was an Arab), in the army (the Druse, who are deemed trustworthy), in the border police (ditto), and Carter, in short, is a falseifier of history, a holier-than-thou unholy man, an evil man secure in his own sickening pieties, who has done great damage to this country, and to Israel, and to the sense of the West. Stein did not go after him like this.
And he couldn't. For many years he was right beside Carter, his loyal apparatchik. And even today the charge makes him furious. And he pretends that "that was another Carter." Oh no it wasn't. Carter was always -- Carter.
I've never burned a book before, but there's always a first; and I'm sure that the 14 members that quit Carter's 'adivsory board' have already burned their copies.
I've never burned a book before, but there's always a first; and I'm sure that the 14 members that quit Carter's 'adivsory board' have already burned their copies.
Posted by: champ at January 26, 2007 02:30 PM
You might want to try that K book first-since it comes from the fiery pit it should burn easier.
Islam4losers --
No kidding! I can already smell the hellish-sulfur rising from my computer.
I wonder if Jimmy hasn't just switched and taken the Shehada.
I'm ambivalent, which adjective to use on Prez Jimmy, gullible or naive?
Doesn't matter. What's scary is that such a person could be put at the helm of the free world. Looking down the road with the likes of Pelosi, Hillary, and Obama, the horizon beyond is dark.
No leadership, then and now.
"..the sentence has been changed in all future editions of the book."
..to what?
Anne posted
I saw the video of a contrite Carter apologizing, I believe it was at Brandeis, for the sentence in question. He used the word "stupid" to describe it's inclusion.
He can admit that he made a mistake, unlike some others. However, an apology for one sentence in a book full of such sentences is inadequate. The 14 people who quit his foundation did not quit soley over one sentence, but over a lifetime of anti-Jewish activity culminating in his "Aparteid" book.
Now, if Carter were to use that admission as a starting point to delve deeper into Islam and jihad, that would be a good step. If further apologies followed, say, for pressuring Israel to accept the Camp David Accords (and the intefadas that followed), that would be an excellent step. But I'm afraid the current apology, for one sentence, is the only teetering, faltering step Carter is capable of. Who cares what Carter thinks, or what he is capable of; he is a relic of the past. The sadder thing is that there aren't any other current or future leaders capable of taking any steps in the right direction either.
"That was a terribly worded sentence which implied, obviously in a ridiculous way, that I approved terrorism and terrorist acts against Israeli citizens," Carter says. "My publishers have been informed about that and the sentence has been changed in all future editions of the book."
He says he had two hopes for the book. "One that it would stimulate peace talks and second that it would reveal to the American public for the first time the horrible oppression and persecution of the Palestinian people and it would precipitate any substantive debate on these issues."
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Carter is a jewhater. Sorry- but that suffices to describe his snake oil apology amongst 30 yrs of trying to dismantle the jewish state.
In his mea culpa, note he knows what it says- he knows it's a horror- and in fact- he gives interviews in muslim lands that opine the same views of exculpation for the muslim actions based on such fantasy accusations. He simply apologized here as if it were a word useage problem, rather than one of concept and idealogy which he has not retracted one bit. As in when he says in the next paragraph: 'the horrible oppression and persecution of the Palestinian people"... as if it were done by the Jews or Israel.
Lest we forget- the arabs and muslims slaughter each other, in most of their lands. And the oppression is done by muslims and arab upon each other- thru sharia, thru honor killings, thru bigotry and hatred and ceremonial slaughter and bonafide slaughter.
Jews 'oppress' these would be killers and savages of barbarism, as taught to babies and allowed in their miserable mosques, by checking too see if they have explosives to splatter innocent people and who's death they celebrate all over the muslims world. But for this precautionary behavior, which is a poor substitute for throwing them all out of Israel for their barbarism, and their vile religion desire to slaughter infidels,
a jew can not journey to arab cities which are and where there's for thousands of years. A Jew couldn't go to Shem, or Ramallah, or Jericho, ancient Jewish towns of biblical history without death and or slaughter being the likely ending.
Oh, yes, Mr Carter- Mr Peanut himself. The Oppression of the Palestinian. In World War Two- the Jews fought against the nazi's, and were the
'Palestinian' brigade. No arabs fought against the nazi's, they were their allies. The 'Palestinian' Talmud, was the name for 1500 yrs for the Jerusalem Talmud.
The 'Palestinians' are a fake creation of rejects from arab lands used to destroy any other state on land the muslims claim.
And this week... THIS WEEK! the Iraqi's are throwing out up to 20,000 'palestinians' from Iraq.
And why??
Because they were supporters of Saddam Hussein.
Did you read that anywhere in Peanut Carter's notes this week, any mea culpa's from him or the rest of the media about the dreadful treatment of palestinians, by muslims and arabs??
"Carter has apologized"....?????????
Oh yea -- he's sorry for saying what he meant; and it's easier to ask for an apology than to ask for permission.
If this is true, then he should be willing to pull his book off the shelves. But will he? Probably not.
....oops....I meant to say "ask for forgiveness", not an apology....jokes on me!
"That was a terribly worded sentence which implied, obviously in a ridiculous way, that I approved terrorism and terrorist acts against Israeli citizens," Carter says.
It's called.. uh.. a Freudian Slip. Those dang Jooz. Always catching Jimmy with his [s]lip down.
To Dhimini Carter:
Why would it surprise us that you would applaud Arab terrorists? Look at the work your Carter Center has done on behalf of the murderers in Sudan!
In July 1999, you negotiated an agreement to stop the flow of arms from Uganda to Sudanese rebel groups. (http://www.cartercenter.org/documents/213.pdf)Great job Dhimnini! Cut off the hopes that the black rebels have of surviving the government's onslaught.
In Jan. 2005, you announced that peace in Sudan was near? You bragged about your neutrality in the conflict. (Seems like the Carter Center has removed the web page with the 2005 Sudan announcement!) Neutrality in the face of genocide of the Sudanese blacks! Why wouldn't we believe you would support terrorist agression? It's very believable given you work in support of terrorists in the Sudan.
Maybe Mr Carter was misunderstood or taken out of context or otherwise caught out...
So Carter apologized-big deal. He needs to spend what little time he has left in this world apologizing for more than just this drivel he wrote.
Carter himself is a racist. He rejects the right of Jews to live in Judea-Samaria, the heart of the ancient Jewish homeland.
How come he has nothing to say about Christian Arabs in Bethlehem being robbed of their lands by Muslims, and effectively being driven out of the country.