Don't think Jimmy Carter is off the deep end with his new book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid? Maybe you ought to talk to the fourteen advisers who just resigned from the Carter Center in protest over the book:
Fourteen members of an advisory board to Jimmy Carter's human rights organization resigned on Thursday to protest his new book, which criticizes Israeli policy in the Palestinian territories.The resignations from The Carter Center board are the latest backlash against the former president's book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," which has drawn fire from Jewish groups, been attacked by fellow Democrats and led to the resignation last month of Kenneth Stein, a center fellow and a longtime Carter adviser.
"You have clearly abandoned your historic role of broker in favor of becoming an advocate for one side," the departing members of the Center's Board of Councilors told Carter in their letter of resignation.
Steve Berman, an Atlanta real estate developer among those who resigned, said members have "watched with great dismay" as Carter defended the book, especially as he implied that Americans might be afraid to discuss the conflict in fear of a powerful Jewish lobby.
Berman said the religious affiliation of the resigning members, which include some prominent Jewish leaders in the Atlanta area, didn't influence their decision.
On a related note, while on my way to the doctor today to find out if I had "walking pneumonia" (I don't, thankfully), I listened to WDEL's Al Mascitti allow a caller to make the ludicrous statements that George Bush is "doing Israel's bidding," that [Jewish] neocon policy "is just Israeli policy," and instead of sending more American boys over there, "why not send some Jewish boys?" Disappointingly, Mascitti did not challenge this caller on these statements. What -- were there no other callers waiting to get on and you needed to kill some air time, Al?
Definitely one of the low[er] points of Al's show that I've ever heard.
Well what do you expect -- as we saw during the Connecticutt election, the American left doesn't view Jews as being real Americans. In that this gang of socialists is like every other socialist clique, from Stalin's international socialism to Hitler's National Socialism.
Posted by: Rhymes With Right at January 11, 2007 08:22 PMWhat?!? You say that I don't view Jewish folks as real Americans? The hell I don't. Watch it with the sweeping generalizations, pal.
Posted by: Mike Mahaffie at January 11, 2007 10:42 PMIf you monitored places like Kos and DU during the campaign this fall, you would see regular anti-Semitic slurs directed at Joe Lieberman.
Indeed, the rhetoric of much of the left in this country on the Palestine/Israel issue is loaded with anti-Semitism -- and Carter's book and comments are simply one more example.
Posted by: Rhymes With Right at January 12, 2007 05:52 AM