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Palestine Peace Not Apartheid Paperback – 1 November 2007
by President Jimmy Carter (Author)
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Following his #1 New York Times bestseller, Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine.
President Carter, who was able to negotiate peace between Israel and Egypt, has remained deeply involved in Middle East affairs since leaving the White House. He has stayed in touch with the major players from all sides in the conflict and has made numerous trips to the Holy Land, most recently as an observer in the Palestinian elections of 2005 and 2006.
In this book, President Carter shares his intimate knowledge of the history of the Middle East and his personal experiences with the principal actors, and he addresses sensitive political issues many American officials avoid. Pulling no punches, Carter prescribes steps that must be taken for the two states to share the Holy Land without a system of apartheid or the constant fear of terrorism.
The general parameters of a long-term, two-state agreement are well known, the president writes. There will be no substantive and permanent peace for any peoples in this troubled region as long as Israel is violating key UN resolutions, official American policy, and the international "road map" for peace by occupying Arab lands and oppressing the Palestinians. Except for mutually agreeable negotiated modifications, Israel's official pre-1967 borders must be honored. As were all previous administrations since the founding of Israel, US government leaders must be in the forefront of achieving this long-delayed goal of a just agreement that both sides can honor.
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid is a challenging, provocative, and courageous book.
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"A provocative and all too accurate diagnosis of why the Israeli-Palestinian impasse still festers twenty-five years after [Carter] left the White House....Timely and refreshing for its candor."
-- Philip C. Wilcox, Jr., National Catholic Reporter
"Takes dead aim at what is the most pressing international affairs and national security issue of our times....Mr. Carter brings to the table a unique credibility."
-- Dan Simpson, The Toledo Blade (Ohio)
"This book offers a historical overview in the form of a personal memoir....Carter may thus be said to be both a source for the historian and himself a historian of the Israeli-Palestinian confrontation. This little book merits a reading on both counts."
-- L. Carl Brown, Foreign Affairs
"This is a must-read for anyone desiring to understand the Middle East problems."
-- Dennis Lythgoe, The Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City)
About the Author
Jimmy Carter was the thirty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981. In 1982, he and his wife founded The Carter Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people around the world. Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. He is the author of thirty books, including A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety; A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power; An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood; and Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis.
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Publisher : Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (1 November 2007)
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Paperback : 288 pages
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Rui
5.0 out of 5 stars The path to peace
Reviewed in Brazil on 19 August 2014
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Excellent reading to understand the conflict in Palestine.
As a protagonist in the peace negotiations, Jimmy Carter presents the path to achieving it, the errors of American policy in the region and the oppression suffered by the Palestinian people.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I've witnessed the Occupation
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If only Americans could begin with a tabula rasa, our mental slates wiped clean of the clutter of propaganda that we have absorbed from our news media, we could read Jimmy Carter's "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" and finally understand the source of the problem in the Middle East: Israel's relentless theft of Palestinian land, and its collective punishment of the entire population. If only. Alas, most supporters of Israel will not read this book (but that won't prevent them from posting one-star reviews on Amazon).
President Carter, of course, is more diplomatic in discussing the history of the conflict, preferring words like "confiscation" instead of "theft." While he mentions the destruction of 420 Palestinian villages in the war of 1948, Carter doesn't mention what Shlomo Ben-Ami, a former Foreign Minister of Israel, called "the atrocities and massacres it [the Israeli army] perpetrated against the civilian Arab community."
Nonetheless, Carter's Palestine is an amazingly succinct and compelling account of the conflict, especially the events since his election in 1976. Particularly fascinating are his accounts of conversations with Arab leaders such as Yasir Arafat, Hafez al-Assad (Syria), Anwar Sadat (Egypt), and King Hussein (Jordan), which allow the reader to see the conflict from the Arab leaders' perspectives. President Assad's interpretation of the conflict, on pages 72-80, presents the most concise version I have seen of the other side of the story, the side rarely seen in the United States. Readers who desire a more detailed and scholarly history should consider
"Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict" by Charles Smith, or
"The Gun and the Olive Branch", by David Hirst.
While many Americans will be shocked by Carter's declarations about Israel's deplorable treatment of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, I can personally attest to many of the facts. Carter writes, "In addition to punitive demolitions, Israel had razed even more Palestinian homes in `clearing' operations, plus houses that Israel claimed were built without a permit." While visiting the West Bank last year, I saw the Israeli military bulldoze three Palestinian homes because of the planned construction of what President Carter calls - in the most accurate description I have seen - the "imprisonment wall". Euphemistically termed the "security barrier" by a compliant American press, the wall is used to imprison Palestinians in bantustans that are separated from the rest of Palestine and often from their own land. Palestinians in Bethlehem, surrounded by the wall, cannot travel the five miles to Jerusalem, while foreigners like me visit from 5,000 miles away.
According to Carter, international rights organizations estimate that 20 percent of the Palestinian population has been imprisoned at some time by the Israelis. My taxi driver, a Christian Palestinian, said that he was imprisoned at age 16 for throwing stones, a symbolic act of protest during the first intifada. A year later, Israeli soldiers broke his arm after stopping him and finding out that he had been in prison.
Israel's ethnic cleansing of Christians and Muslims from Jerusalem is camouflaged in a blanket of legalese such as "building permits" and "identification cards." The Palestinian Christian who cleaned my room at the hotel had been imprisoned for working in Jerusalem "without a Jerusalem ID." Though his wife and children were born in Jerusalem, he grew up in a small nearby town where there are no jobs. At the time of his arrest, on the day his third child was born, he was working in the Christian quarter of the Old City, which is in Occupied Territory.
This important book solidifies Jimmy Carter's standing as the most honest and forthright statesman of our time. While he feels he did the right thing in settling for a separate peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, rather than a comprehensive agreement that included the Palestinians, he presents Assad's opposing view that Sadat betrayed the Arabs. Carter admits that his biggest mistake at Camp David was "failure to clarify in writing Begin's verbal promise" to cease building settlements in the Occupied Territories. Begin soon broke that promise.
Although most of the facts presented by Carter are readily verifiable, I wish that he had presented footnotes for the source of some specific details. For example, on page 206 he states that 708 Palestinian children and 123 Israeli children were killed between September 2000 and March 2006. However, B'tselem, the respected Israeli human rights group, reports that Israeli security forces killed 801 Palestinian children, while Palestinians killed 39 Israeli minors from 9/29/2000 to 11/15/2006.
I also wish that Carter had included some photographs in the book. The photograph on the front cover, depicting a peaceful protest at the three-story high imprisonment wall, says more than any description can accomplish. Israeli police routinely attack and disperse with tear gas such demonstrations at the wall, beating and arresting protestors. According to a witness at one demonstration, organized as non-violent, a protestor began throwing stones. When a leader of the protest tried to stop it, he was arrested -- by the stone-thrower, who was an undercover Israeli policeman.
"Palestine" is a short book of facts, devoid of sermonizing and analysis, easily digestible in a few hours. The book merely relates what happened in the recent past and what is happening now - facts that are only controversial because they haven't been reported by the mainstream news media. The facts lead to the obvious conclusions that Carter makes on the final page: "Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when Israel is willing to comply with international law," and the United States is encouraging anti-American terrorism by "condoning or abetting the Israeli confiscation and colonization of Palestinian territories."
Jimmy Carter's "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" gives me optimism that more people will learn the truth. If only people will read it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Authentic
Reviewed in Canada on 14 November 2023
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President Carter writes with clarity and authenticity. I have few words to describe the immense impact he has on my understanding of the situation even today, 17 years later. I highly recommend this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very good
Reviewed in Germany on 1 May 2017
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This is an honest account of the situation. If you want to hear the truth - you should read this book.
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MICHELE
5.0 out of 5 stars Jimmy deserves the Profile in Courage Award for telling the truth.
Reviewed in France on 23 July 2017
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Jimmy Carter has been unfairly denigrated, and even trashed for speaking in first hand experience § telling the truth. He has always worked for peace § justice.
I really enjoyed Jimmy's thoughful analysis of an incredibly complex situation.
I highly recommend this well-written, clear, fair, balanced § very informative book.
Beyond the title, read Jimmy's book with an open mind.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Helps to understand the actual situation
Reviewed in Japan on 23 September 2014
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This is the history of peace negotiations written by an honest man who has made the resolution of the Middle East peace issue his personal task, including during his time as president. Although it is a slightly older book, it is well written, including the personalities of the negotiating parties, and I think the arguments are still persuasive today. One thing I find questionable is that US financial and military aid to Israel is an obstacle to peace, but the only mention of this is that aid was first frozen during the time of President Bush Sr. in protest against the expansion of illegal settlements. I felt it was unnatural that this issue was not addressed during his own time as president, and there was no mention of it.
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DAVID BRYSON
5.0 out of 5 stars IT CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 January 2007
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When I hear criticism of Israel in Europe I sometimes wonder how Britain or France would behave if they suffered terrorist violence to the extent that Israel does and if they had mouthy local demagogues announcing that their state ought to be wiped off the map. I suspect they would behave a lot worse than Israel does. However while the climate of debate remains comparatively rational there is no taboo against criticising Israel. The content of this book is not greatly controversial to European ideas, but in America matters are otherwise. I have seen a certain amount of American comment on it, some of the commentators preferring to read each other rather than the book, and I would advise prospective readers that a great deal of the comment is not to be believed. If the topic were anything else, the shrillness of the tone would alert anyone who is alert in the first place to suspect that the problem with the book is not that it is anti this that or the next thing, but that it is uncomfortably near the bone for some people's liking.
Mr Carter's tone throughout is dispassionate to the point of dryness. He mainly reserves his conclusions for the end, but here and there in the earlier chapters, as in his semi-didactic novel of the American civil war The Hornet's Nest, he highlights certain observations in a manner that invites readers to draw our own conclusions. This is most marked in his summation of Arafat's failure to respond to an opportunity and to raise his game from that of leader of an uprising to being leader of a prospective nation, and Mr Carter quietly but explicitly blames himself for failing to get a better text on the occupied Palestinian lands incorporated in the Camp David accords. The book is short, the print is clear and the author clearer still, although one would hardly think so from much of what poses as commentary. In terms of accuracy I haven't tried to verify the minutiae, but Carter was always one for detail and while it would be unlikely that there are no errors any that I have seen alleged, other than grandiose denunciations of the whole book for manifest incredibility, are small beer. In particular his accounts of the conditions that Palestinians live under are familiar stuff on European news broadcasts, and not just those of the BBC either but the commercial channels too. This is the sort of content that raises an outcry in America - it is intolerable emotionally and therefore must not be allowed to be true.
At the very least it has to be conceded (you might think, but of course this is the topic it is and abnormal criteria apply to what has to be conceded) that Carter is in a position to know more about the topic of this book than any other American. Knowledge of any subject doesn't, obviously, compel agreement with the knowledgeable party's conclusions, but it should at least make anyone hesitate before criticising him on such grounds, whereas in fact many have rushed in to do so and are probably rushing still as I write, much as the Gadarene Swine were doubtless rushing to refute the outrageous teachings they had just overheard. To invoke a different culture, the Emperor's clothes are just marvellous and to say otherwise is to be guilty of an ignorant and biased rant. So with Mr Carter. In my own view to find anything particularly contentious about his findings, still less anything biased in his tone or style, one has first to be American. He was an odd misfit among the tradition of American presidents, he was a bit of a misfit in the job, but a lot of the long-term value of his perceptions is precisely that he didn't think in a conventional American way. America is my own second home and I love it dearly, but for sheer sterility in its political thinking at this stage of history one might search the globe in vain for its equal.
Housman outraged classical scholars by heading his edition of Juvenal 'Edited for the use of editors'. Carter may similarly be thought to outrage a segment of his compatriots' perceptions by issuing a work for education of Americans. The situation they seem wedded to simply can't go on as it is. Mr Carter has a deep religious faith that I can't share, whereas I do share the candid opinion of the last British ambassador to Washington Sir Christopher Meyer that the 'Road Map' to middle east peace, which Carter still embraces, is not worth the paper it's written on. Simply - if nations try to determine land-rights on the basis of who God says can have them then we have the formula for a never-ending dispute, as God talks in mysterious ways. Again, if Palestinians are expected to recognise the legitimate existence of Israel (as we all should) exactly what 'Israel' are they being asked to recognise? West Bank settlements on lands to which they may own legal deeds? Israel's right to secure borders should be indisputable in general, but how can this apply to borders on someone else's land? The questions continue, and Carter dissects them coolly.
Equally beyond dispute ought to be that attacks on civilians are plain crime. In ordinary life we don't stop trying to smooth out areas of dispute until all criminals renounce their ways or until someone promises to stop them, as unrealistic a promise as was ever demanded except, apparently, in Palestine. Nor do we usually think we can solve disputes by refusing to talk with those in dispute with us until they capitulate to our demands to start with, a long-standing anomaly of US foreign policy that Carter highlights, no doubt in a ranting and anti-US manner that I have not detected.
Total support for Israel is emotional in America, and also historical from the days when Israel was America's foothold in the area to combat whatever the USSR might have been doing. An older and firmer tradition of American foreign policy is that its basis in sentiment falters when strategic and commercial interests indicate otherwise, as they now do. If the strategic and commercial lobbies in Washington are not already patiently at work indicating a new direction I shall be very surprised indeed. Support for the Israel of Ben Gurion was one thing, but if I were Israeli and expecting eternal American support for condominiums on the West Bank the question that I would dread to think American might ask themselves would be the question - WHY?
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The author of the book is certainly to be remembered for being one of the few US presidents with a good head on his shoulders. He still proves himself to be a valid person by writing an uncomfortable book instead of sitting in an armchair drinking tea.
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CosmoRoxy
5.0 out of 5 stars The Unvarnished Truth
Reviewed in Canada on 17 January 2011
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Want to know the REAL truth behind the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Then read this book.
Take it from a man who knows - Jimmy Carter.
What's truly perplexing is that the Jews are marginalizing &
bullying & brutalizing the Palestinians in exactly the same
manner that they themselves were treated by the Nazis in WW2.
You would think they would have learned better after having
gone through what they did.
What's going on over there is a crying shame & it must stop
if there is ever going to be any peace in the Arab world.
Read this book & you decide : Who's the real villain?.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good, unexciting book about the history of the Palestine-Israel conflict from the perspective of an American president:
Reviewed in Germany on 7 August 2014
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Very interesting is the short section at the end of the book about the peace negotiations, which Carter partially attended. Not a word
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As might have been expected, Israeli and Jewish leaders were apoplectic at Carter for daring to criticize Israel. David Ross, who worked with Carter, had published an Op Ed in the NY Times excoriating Carter for a factual error he had made in identifying a map in the book. Fourteen members of the board of Carter’s foundation resigned in protest. So what is all the fuss about?
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Carter has a fluid, if dry writing style. One reads him for information and analysis, not for literary inspiration. It is difficult to imagine the guy cracking a joke. There will be no whoopee cushions appearing unexpectedly under Roslynn at the dinner table. But Carter is arguably America’s greatest living statesman, a serious, religious fellow who puts his beliefs into practice by attempting to resolve international conflicts. He is a force for good in the world, and stands out when compared with the post White House activities many of the other ex-presidents. Nixon engaged almost exclusively in self-serving memoir writing. Reagan looked for the big payday giving million-dollar-a-pop speeches in Japan. 41 did some fishing and played a little golf before he teamed up with Bubba to do some concrete good. Ford dropped out of sight. I imagine 43 has maintained a low profile, spending his time clearing brush and enjoying holidays with his Saudi friends. Obama has been quiet, but has an activist organization working on important public issues and has been working on a project to help fix our gerrymandered congressional districting. Carter is the ex who has been the most engaged in the world on a global scale. He may be the only American who might have been ever been deemed a candidate for UN Secretary General. While one may agree or disagree with him on the particulars of specific international conflicts, only a maniac would contend that he is not a force for sanity in the world.
Carter offers specific information on what was agreed to when, what was said, what was understood re the various dealings between Israel, the Palestinians, and the national enemies at Israel’s borders. It is clear from his reportage that Israel does not live up to the innocent victim image it is so fond of presenting to the world. There is a common view that the Palestinians could have had over 90% of what they wanted in their negotiations with Israel if only Arafat had not been such a hard-ass. Carter offers a very detailed explanation for why that view is seriously at odds with reality. He concludes that what Israel has created, in the occupied territories, is a form of apartheid, in which the Palestinians play the role of South Africa’s blacks. It is a compelling case, particularly when Carter points out the actual significance of Israeli roads that not only divide the West Bank, but which engender cushion-space around them that Palestinians may not enter, when he points out that the pattern of Israeli construction is having the effect of chopping the West Bank up into islands of separate space, incapable of being joined into a single political entity, when he points out all the rights the Palestinians, in their own land, are denied. I’d be blowing things up too.
This view fits with what I have learned from other sources, both in books and from the journalists with whom I worked briefly a few years back. They told first hand accounts of Israeli soldiers who would taunt the local Palestinian youth and then when these people responded with tossed stones, the Israelis would slaughter them with automatic weapons. It was clear to me then that the perennial victims had taken on the attributes of their tormenters. If anything I believe Carter understates the case for the demise of moral authority in Israel. As in the USA, Israel is a nation that has come under the sway of extreme elements. Not all, or even certainly a majority of Israelis hold with the view of the extremists that all the land of the West Bank is really a part of Israel, but as long as extreme elements hold political power, and as long as they insist, despite UN condemnation and international law, on building more settlements in occupied territory, the problems there will only worsen. And it is clear that Israelis in power have every intention of absorbing large swaths of the West Bank into Israel-proper, in fact if not in law. It is no wonder that a disgusted populace rallied behind a murderous Hamas.
Jimmy Carter may not be the most dynamic writer, but he is very effective at presenting the information he has, and in offering his very informed take. If you are at all interested in Middle-East politics, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid is a must-read.
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July 31, 2018 - NY Times - the article points out the continuation of troubling extremist leadership in Israel. They’re ‘Blood Brothers’ With Israel’s Jews. But Druse Call New Law a Betrayal. It is eminently clear that the problems Jimmy Carter wrote about in 2006, are as relevant and dark today as they were then.
September 20, 2018 - NY Times - How Israel Undermined Washington and Stalled the Dream of Palestinian Statehood - by Seth Anziska
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When I told my parents I was going to do solidarity work in Palestine, they - in the midst of yelling and tears - asked me why. I said that I wanted to be able to come back and talk about what I had seen. My father's retort was something along the lines of "What about Jimmy Carter's book? What could you possibly say that a Nobel prize winning well respected ex-president couldn't?"
A year after coming home, I finally read it. There's very little that Carter and I have to say that's the same, as we're coming from very different places. Nonetheless, I was much more impressed than I expected to be. Though my critiques of the occupation would be more bottom-up and scathing, Carter still goes *much* further than any mainstream politician in the US has in years. Due to his fame, respect, and ultimately whiteness and Christianity, this book has quickly become the 101 text on the Israel/Palestine/Middle East conflict. As mainstream 101 texts go, it is surprisingly good.
In large part, the book details various peace talks and the main players in them, a very top-down and at times impersonal view of the conflict. Carter repeatedly chastises both Israeli and Palestinian leaders for their refusal to compromise, but certainly criticizes the Israeli leaders more.
He notes that many of the milestones Palestinians have to meet for negotiations to continue are impossible and unfair. For example, the idea that all suicide bombings must be stopped is impossible when 1) Israel is imprisoning many of Palestine's most influential politicians, 2) Israel's much larger military can't even do that and 3) the root cause of the conflict isn't being discussed. Carter repeatedly pegs the occupation (albeit the one beginning in 1967, not the one in 1948) as the source of the conflict and even refers to Israel as a colonial power. He notes that Arafat could not realistically accept any of the offers made to him by Israel, including the "generous offer," because Israel insisted on maintaining control of all borders, air space, ocean access, and elctromagnetic frequencies (radio, TV, etc).
It's not until the last chapter that Carter really talks about the Wall and other ways that Palestinian lives are daily affected by the occupation. It's a strong ending, though it not being discussed earlier might make it difficult for some people to understand the stances Palestinian leaders took in negotiations.
All in all, I was pleasantly surprised. It's not by any means the first book I would recommend to someone already politicized looking to learn about the occupation, but it is much more accessible to someone like my liberal yet Zionist father.
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I felt this was an obviously truthful book, perhaps generating more controversy than it should have by using "apartheid" in the title. Carter has been in the Middle East so often (plus his inside knowledge from his years as President) that to think that he doesn't understand what is happening there is delusional. The last part of the book describes the Wall that Israel has constructed, which keeps the Palestinians away from Israeli (illegal) settlements, and makes it difficult for them to even get around in their own shrinking territory. The material he relates is infuriating and heartbreaking to read. Carter is truly a good person.
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immy Carter is a despicable anti-Semite who holds a grudge against the Jewish people who he blames for his losing the 1980 Presidential
Election to Ronald Reagan.
Jimmy Carter is also a pathetic and immoral opportunist who has jumped on the 'hate Israel' bandwagon to get his wizened face back into the limelight.
Is Carter trying to remain in the limelight, at the expense of
Israel's people? And at the expense of peace , justice, and human rights (YES, folks, Israeli Jews have human rights too , it so happens)!
I intend, in this review, to answer some of Carter's repulsive charges against Israel and to show them up as the lies and blood libels which they are.
There are those who will challenge my characterization of Carter as an anti-Semite.
But here is proof that he is.
Singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction out of all proportion of any other Middle East country is anti-Semitic.
Especially coming from a man who connived to topple the enlightened and benevolent reign of Shah Reza Pahlavi, the two thousand year old
Persian Imperial house that gave full equality to women unlike, any other Islamic country at the time, other than perhaps Turkey.
He bares much blame for the repressive, cruel and genocidal Islamic
Fundamentalist regime of the diabolical Ayatollah Khomeini and his evil acolyte Mahmoud 'Haman' Ahmadinejad.
Comparing Israel and her leaders to the Nazis, as Carter does, is anti-semitic!
Anti-semitism is when Israel is held to a different standard than any other country in the world- as Carter does!
Anti-Semitism is when Israel is subjected to a unique double standard of judgement and criticism for it's actions in defending itself against threats to it's existance and population, as Carter does.
As is evident in the title of the book, Carter accuses Israel of being an Apartheid State. This is a vicious blood libel.
Almost 2 million people living in Israel are not Jews.
No laws on statute books prescribing living areas or movements.
Unlike under South African Aparthied laws there is no Israeli ideology, policy or plan to segregate mistreat or persecute the Arab population.
In Israel the State owns 93% of the land, which is leased to all citizens regardless of race. The remaining 7% can be bought by all
Israeli citizens.
There is no official seperate schoolig in Israel;people choose schools for their religious, linguistic or cultural background.
Non-Jews can become citizens if they comply with necessary imigration requirements as anywhere in the world.
Non-Jews can serve in the army as volunteers.
Israeli Arabs are full citizens, enjoy full political rights, can vote and stand for election and political association- hardly
Apartheid, Carter!
As regards the much maligned settlers, has Carter ever visited these communities he so maligns, I have!
They are beautiful and peaceful family orineted communities, half of them children, who are simply exercising the right to live in their ancient homeland. What is racist is the determination of the Arabs and their leftist supporters to get them off the land. since Biblical Times, Jews have lived in the West Bank and Gaza until forced to flee in 1948.
Jews have a biblical, historical and legal right to settle in the West Bank.
Under international law, territories are considered "occupied" only when taken in an act of agression.
These disputed territories were tkane by Israel ina defensive war against
Arab agression.
There are no signed agreements between Israel and the Arabs regarding buliding/expanding settlements.
Predictably Carter atacks the Security Fence built to keep Arab terrorists from getting into Israel and killing Jewish men, women and children.
It is to protect the lives of Israel's people, it is not racist as
Carter charges. It is only temporary and can be removed at any time when terrorist attacks end.
The international law, which Carter continually evokes to villify
Israel, does NOT ban expropriation of land in disputed territory completely. It bans only "extensive destruction and and appropriation of property not justified by millitary necesity.
The route of the fence is defined by security and topographical needs.
The security fence is NOT a wall (as reffered to by Israel-haters as the Apartheid Wall)
Only 5% of it's current length is concrete, near the most vulnerable and threatened Israeli areas.
The fence contains agricultural gates to enable farmers to continue cultivating their lands. Of course Carter does not mention this or any other truths inconvenient to his slander against Israel.
Carter calls for the return of the so-called 'refugees' as a way of destroying Israel and anihilating her people.
Some facts those who read Carter's propaganda pamphlet should remember:
In 1948 the Arabs were encouraged to leave Israel by their leaders, who promised to purge the land of Jews.
About 630 000 Arab refugees left Israel in 1948.
About 800 000 Jews fled Arab lands, where they had lived for centuries, with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. They were absorbed by Israel.
Arab refugees were intentionally not absorbed into Arab lands to which they fled so as tpo breed terrorism and push for the so- called "right of return" pushed by anti-Israeli racists like Jimmy
Carter.
The refugge problem is not soley between Israel and the 'Palestinian' Arabs but between Israel and the Arab States that attacked her in 1948.
Palestinian refugees have no legal right of return to Israel under the general international conventions, nor under major UN resolutions, nor under elevant agreements between parties.
To call for the 'return of "refugees"' as Carter does, is illegal.
Carter even implicitly defends suicide bombings.
Unlike what Carter declares, suicide bombings, it so happens, are not desperate acts.
Thos carrying them out are middle class, educated and brainwashed by evil fanatics.
These suicide bombers (or more correctly homicide bombers) fell themselves to be the ultimate heroic expressions of their communities and the political organizations which have primed them.
They thrive because of the specific political culture that fosters it, and believe in Paradise waiting for them after death.
Carter, also of course condemmns the targeted assasinations of evil mass-murdering terrorists like Ahmed Yassin, Abdulaziz Rantisi and
Mohammed Deif.
Hamas has declared a war of genocide against Israel and all of her
Jews down to the last child. All Hamas leaders are involved in and/or planning terrorist attacks and are therefore combatants.
Millitary and political wings of the terrorist groups Hamas, the
Popular Resistance Committees, Islamic Jihad and Al Qaeda overlap with no distinction.
The aim of Hamas et al is the same as the Nazis, the genocide of
Jews.
Therefore Israel's policy of targeting Hamas leaders for assassination is legal, Carter!
This book by Carter is a racist blood libel against the Israeli people and full of lies.
If you want truth and objectivity stay far away from it.
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The Publisher Says: Following his #1 New York Times bestseller, Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine. President Carter, who was able to negotiate peace between Israel and Egypt, has remained deeply involved in Middle East affairs since leaving the White House. He has stayed in touch with the major players from all sides in the conflict and has made numerous trips to the Holy Land, most recently as an observer in the Palestinian elections of 2005 and 2006.
In this book President Carter shares his intimate knowledge of the history of the Middle East and his personal experiences with the principal actors, and he addresses sensitive political issues many American officials avoid. Pulling no punches, Carter prescribes steps that must be taken for the two states to share the Holy Land without a system of apartheid or the constant fear of terrorism.
The general parameters of a long-term, two-state agreement are well known, the president writes. There will be no substantive and permanent peace for any peoples in this troubled region as long as Israel is violating key U.N. resolutions, official American policy, and the international "road map" for peace by occupying Arab lands and oppressing the Palestinians. Except for mutually agreeable negotiated modifications, Israel's official pre-1967 borders must be honored. As were all previous administrations since the founding of Israel, U.S. government leaders must be in the forefront of achieving this long-delayed goal of a just agreement that both sides can honor.
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid is a challenging, provocative, and courageous book.
My Review: I do not have a dog in this fight. I'm not Jewish, I'm not Palestinian, and I'm not Christian so this isn't homeland or holy land to me.
But I'm a human being, and a very committed secular humanist. Israel's right to exist should be inarguable. The Palestinian homeland should be self-governing. But NEITHER should be run by gawd, since such an entity doesn't exist, and the rule books that the religions here in conflict use are both so revolting and reprehensible.
President Carter is a wise man, and his book is packed with commonsensical compromises. For those reasons alone, there is no chance whatsoever that anyone in power will listen to him. Wisdom is the garlic to the vampires of politics, and common sense can't get any traction where gawd is in the debate.
One side or the other must lose. There is no compromise that will make both sides happy enough to stop killing each other in gawd's name. So the inevitable must occur: Victory for one, defeat for the other, and many more generations of blood spilled over a scrap of desert with little to recommend it.
This is what religion does, people: It makes hate roil the never-calm waters of the human soul. Its purpose is to divide, separate, blame, vilify. It is very very good at those things. The reason is that it was created by humankind in humankind's own worst image. There is nothing "divine" about it...just humans bein' themselves, murdering apes.
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December 18, 2016
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter is a book I bought new ten years ago. Yes, it is that old. The middle east has more issues now but this book is about the Arab/Israeli situation then. The book starts out giving a history of the region going back thousands of years and how the region has changed leadership. President Carter then speaks personally about his trips to the middle east and what he sees, how he feels, what is said, who he talks with, etc. He is open and honest and shows the reader what he is up against politically and socially. It is a good lesson on both. Throughout the book, his love for peace and prosperity for both sides comes through. Not for one side over the other. I am not sure how the negative reviews found these things, I looked. I found none of this. Jimmy Carter presented himself as a President as someone that the USA could be proud of and he continues to do so. He is sweet and tenderhearted, working for the underdog, for peace, prosperity world wide, and has since he has left office. He didn't have to, he could just be sitting around and golfing but he is driven to do good for mankind and this book's pages express this. He is not the best writer but what he does write tells this. He let's his feels show honestly. He is a man that continues to this day, even with cancer, working for others. That is why I chose to read this book on his birthday, after all these years, because he may not be here much longer, and I wanted my review up to show that I did read it and I agree. Peace, not apartheid. Thank you Mr President for being a role model for all.
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Mr. Carter is accused of anti-Semitism? Seriously? That's the opposite of the impression I had when reading his book and especially in the first 3 chapters.
I highly appreciate what he said about Gaza and mistreatments of the Palestinians especially in the last 5 years when the so-called "peace process" stopped.
I thought that he should express a direct blame to the brutal Israeli policies more than he did. I also think the US policies in recent years are contributing to eliminate any REAL peace attempts and that Mr. Carter should have said more about that.
After all these years he still sounds like a polite Politian.
Regardless, I'm so glad he wrote this book. It seems like he was filling a gap in the topic especially for Westerners. To us, Arabs, there is much more in it than this simplified analysis. There is pain and injustice.
My peace be upon you all, not APARTHEID!
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This book is dead honest. It's a must read if you are interested in the Palestinian quest for freedom. It's not a road map nor is it a solution but it's consideration of what is sustainable. The Palestinian people deserve to be free to live a life free of segregation and oppression and this book highlights in simple terms what it means to replace an increasing moral decay, brought by decades of Zionist ideology and brainwash, with a peace. Co-existence in which ever form IS possible but it is only possible when the Zionist apartheid regime is replaced with a government that promotes a radical change in the way Israeli view or should view their brothers and sisters the Palestinians. And that would be the first small step in a giant leap towards a reconciliation that certainly doesn't need any more water under the bridge.
Jimmy Carter is the only honourable president the USA has ever had. He's not the best writer but his heart is in the right place. He has shared his thoughts and views and facts about one of the most pressing political and humanitarian issues of our time, the freedom for the Palestinians and the end of the apartheid in Israel.
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JIMMY CARTER: PALESTINE PEACE NOT APARTHEID
I just finished reading the latest book by Jimmy Carter Palestine Peace Not Apartheid. It's the book that has been so controversial because of the title. Some conservatives and liberals have said that Mr. Carter has stepped over the line and is showing his anti-semitism. I recommend that you read the book and make up your own mind. Mr. Carter has spent the last 30+ years working toward a fair and secure peace for the mid-east region and his work has been highly favored by majorities of Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the area. The book is an easy read even as it details in chronological order the steps for peace that have been offered and agreed to by both sides in the Palestinian conflict and the other conflicts with Israel's neighbors. It is amazing how many chances for peace have been attempted and yet the world still finds it to be a region of hatred, distrust and warfare. This book answers many of the questions that the American mainstream media hasn't even bothered to ask, and after reading it I am more convinced than ever that peace is a fleeting fantasy unless the world is able to control the religious supremacists at the heart of the hatred and violence.
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