Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
Book Review: Jimmy "Peanut Farmer" Carter...loses Iran to Islamists; leaves chaos for Reagan to fix; now, writes an anti-Semitic tome!!!!!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
Anytime you misleadingly and degradingly compare Israel's right to self-defense against Pali terrorism with apartheid, you're bound to be devastated by a torrent of criticism from all sides (even including fellow Democrats Clinton and Pelosi), and rightly so!!!!
This is the story of Jimmy Carter, the one-term cataclysm who lost Iran to Islamist fundamentalists while overseeing an oil crisis. At the risk of redundancy, I'll recap the notoriety of this book--which is distastefully short at barely 200 pages of readable print (but, with Carter blaming Israel repeatedly throughout the book while excusing Palis all day long, 200 pages is far too enormous for what amounts to his racist opinions.) This book was subjected to scorching criticism almost from the nanosecond of its release, and Carter apologists should particularly note that the criticism is just as intense from the normal Carter friends: Democrats and Jewish groups within the US, who normally vote Democrat by a large margin over Republicans.
Even Speaker Pelosi--whose Do-Nothing, Dem Congress has so far passed only ONE OR TWO lousy pieces of legislation key to their agenda, in total conflict with their bragging about what they'd do if they took power--and Bill Clinton are two prominent Democrats who've derided Carter. Additionally, the most damning implication against Carter's book's "credibility" was the resignation (read: renunciation of Carter) of 15 members of his Carter Center, all because of the historical and ideological injustices contained in said tome.
With all this withering criticism from Carter's own side, the few Carter apologists left (probably mostly Arabs!!!!) should ask themselves why they continue to whitewash Carter's revisionism--especially since an examination of the book will totally destroy their support of Carter.
The worst affront is the flagrant accusation that Israel's self-defense measures against the Palis amount to South African-style apartheid. To mortify and ruin Carter apologists' arguments, we only need to define apartheid and compare South Africa with the Israeli-Pali conflict.
a-part-heid (a-p?rt'hit') n. 1. policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites
With this definition, it's apparently obvious to all who practice intellectual honesty that Israeli, self-defense measures aren't meant to oppress or discriminate against Palis, only to protect Israelis against Arab terrorism!!!! When Israel builds their separation wall, or razes Pali neighborhoods, or assassinates Pali "leaders" (read: terrorists), these are praiseworthy acts of self-defense. Furthermore, on a purely technical level, while South African blacks were segregated politically, Palis can vote (though they fanatically and self-destructively choose Hamas) and Arab Israelis can hold office. By these indisputable truths alone, Carter's title is discreditable and only serves to be provocative.
Other factual predicaments plague Carter's book like a curse. For instance, Carter unrelentingly refuses to sentence or at the least acknowledge what Palis who kill Israeli civilians are: terrorists. Throughout his whitewash of Pali enormities disguised as a book, Carter refers to Arab terrorists as "militants!!!!" This feloniously tricks the ignorant into believing that Palis are fighting for a defensible cause instead of branding them what they really are.
Further antagonistic is Carter's refusal to condemn or at the least expose both Arafat's PLO and Hamas as Islamofascist, terror groups!!!! The closest Carter comes to admitting this is calling them a little "extreme." Yet, Carter perpetrates throughout his propaganda-book the prevarication that Arafat and his PLO were legitimate, instead of recognizing that the PLO was founded as a terror group to eradicate Israel; Arafat continued to support terror clandestinely despite claiming to the US/world that he wasn't; and Arafat rejected many licit, Israeli peace deals which actually granted Palis much of their demanded lands.
Another grievous poison of dishonesty in the book is Carter's insistence that UN Resolution 242 requires Israel to withdraw to the "border" line of 1949; in reality and fact, there is no such border as it only was an armistice line referred to in 242. Egregiously again, Carter's overwhelming favoritism of the invented territory of Palestine (renamed so by the Romans) comes into play, as he perpetuates the fra*d that Israel somehow has already recognized their own borders.
Falsehood pertaining to recent circumstances concerns the summer war of 06, where Israel was provoked into self-defense by the Hezbollah kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers and the shelling of civilian towns in northern Israel. In reference to this, Carter remorselessly downplays the atrocities of Hezbollah (using Arab civilians as human shields and firing directly into Israeli communities) while demonizing Israel's response as somehow being the catalyst of unrest.
The bottom line why Carter has deservedly earned the blistering criticism of his book from even his own side (Dems) and former staffers is poignantly clear. Despite his underperformance as a one-termer, he's still a former president so his wildly menacing statements of irresponsibility carry some weight on the international stage. Rhetoric denouncing Israel actually only emboldens the Arab terrorists to become even more unabashed in their terrorism, as they feel Carter's sentiments give them moral justification--or at least a plausible excuse. Since Israel IS incontrovertibly America's best friend in the Middle East--since Israelis don't target US civilians in terrorist acts and fight the common foe in Islamist extremists--it's perilous for Carter to ostracize them.
On a presentational level, Carter's book also arrives at the same, reprehensible level as the ideology and "arguments" contained within. The book is severely double-spaced, the indentations are more than an inch on all sides of each page, and the chapters are pitifully short.
Book Review: Eye Opener
Summary: 5 Stars
Insightful chronicle on a media taboo subject, President Carter bares the ugly face of an apartheid country for all to see. The US foreign policy has a double standard for Israel, and this book exposes it. Highly recommended, I always voted Republican too. Sadly, I was a lost sheep led blindly astray. Book Review: truth & facts
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent information, Carter have the courage to say what 85% of politicians are scared to say or maybe paid not to say it.Book Review: A No Win Situation
Summary: 4 Stars
Great book. Will never convince those who oppose his ideas, but needed to be said. Disrespect is not the way to voice opposition, however.Book Review: Absolute Drivel
Summary: 1 Stars
This bargain book is absolute drivel. Jimmy Carter demonstrates to the world that he is not an astute expert on the Middle East situation. Instead he appears to be an appeaser and a panderer.