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SURPRISE? Jimmy Carter loses some of his JEWISH-AMERICAN supporters! LOL
I’ll bold-face the known and proved Jewish names in this article.
Aaron
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http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,243082,00.html
14 Carter Center Advisers Resign Over Former President Jimmy Carter's Book
Friday , January 12, 2007
By Melissa Drosjack
WASHINGTON — Fourteen members of a leadership group under former President Carter's think tank resigned Thursday over concerns that Carter's book on the Middle East does not represent "the Jimmy Carter we came to respect and support."
The [14] members of the 200-member Board of Councilors, a leadership advisory group founded in 1987, join a longtime Carter aide, Jewish groups and lawmakers who have publicly criticized the former president's best-selling book "Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid" for inaccuracies and distorting history.
"It comes to the result of deep soul searching and a tremendous amount of angst," said Steve Berman, a member who was appointed six months ago.
Berman, an Atlanta commercial real estate developer, said he was led to resign after becoming deeply troubled after reviewing Carter's book, shocked by factual errors and a message that doesn't serve the cause of peace.
"We're trying to send a message that the issue of the Middle East is very complicated and complex," Berman said. "There are two narratives that need to be heard."
Berman refers to two narratives between the Israelis and Palestinians in contesting one piece of land. "Palestinian leaders have had chances since 1947 to have their own state, including during your own presidency when they snubbed your efforts," the letter reads.
• Click here to read the 14 members' resignation letter.
The members submitted a joint resignation letter, saying the book confuses opinion with fact.
"We can no longer endorse your strident and uncompromising position. This is not the Carter Center or the Jimmy Carter we came to respect and support. Therefore it is with sadness and regret that we hereby tender our resignation from the Board of Councilors of the Carter Center effective immediately," the letter said.
Liane Levetan, a former Georgia state senator who served on the board for about 10 years, said Carter's book "really hurt me."
"To me, it's a situation of telling the facts that are the facts. This is not a piece of fiction," Levetan said. "There are some things in life that you just cannot overlook. The truth is something that has got to be told. And certain portions of this book do not tell the truth."
Levetan said despite her respect for the Carter Center, she could not remain quiet over concerns of the book.
"When you are convinced that there's something that's wrong or not truthful, you can't sit by on the sidelines and let things get by," Levetan said.
The list of members resigning includes Alan Abrams, Berman, Michael Coles, Jon Golden, Doug Hertz, Barbara Babbit Kaufman, Levetan, Jeff Levy, Leon Novak, Ambassador William B. Schwartz Jr., William B. Schwartz III, Steve Selig, Cathey Steinberg and Gail Solomon. Another member plans to resign privately, Berman said.
The members say the book "portrays the conflict between Israel and her neighbors as a purely one-sided affair with Israel holding all the responsibility for resolving the conflict."
"In light of the publication of your latest book 'Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid' and your subsequent comments made in promoting the book, we can no longer in good conscience continue to serve the Center as members of the Board of Councilors," the letter reads.
Carter stands by his book and defends it against what he called "lies" and "distortions" against his book in an op-ed published in the LA Times last month.
Carter Center Executive Director John Hardman said the members of the group aren't a governing board or associated with implementing work of the center.
"We are grateful to these Board of Councilors members for their years of service and support for The Carter Center in advancing peace and health around the world," Hardman said in a statement.
The resignations come after Kenneth Stein, director of the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel of Emory University, resigned in December, saying the book distorts history to shape the reader's opinion to one side of the issue.
• Click here to read Dr. Kenneth W. Stein's resignation letter.
"I just want to be sure that when people write history, people don't do it for purpose of special pleading," he said. "They write it the way it was. They don't try to shape a person's opinion and slide them down a path in order to come to an inevitable conclusion."
Stein said the book contained "factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions and simply invented segments."
Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an international Jewish human rights group based in Los Angeles, received more than 23,000 signatures for an online petition urging action against "Carter's one-sided bias against Israel."
Hier said he agrees with the 14 members decision to cut ties to the Carter Center because the book offers a distorted view of the Middle East.
"I think they did the right thing," Hier said. "I think that the book was unworthy of a former president of the United States."
The latest resignation also follows other questions to surface over the book.
Last month, Ambassador Dennis Ross, a former Mideast envoy and FOX News foreign affairs analyst, claims maps commissioned and published by him were improperly republished in Carter's book.
"I think there should be a correction and an attribution," Ross said. "These were maps that never existed, I created them."
After Ross saw the maps in Carter's book, he told his publisher he wanted a correction.
When asked if the former president ripped him off, Ross replied, "It sure looks that way."
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With deference to Joseph, I’ll repeat this apropos and applicable truism:
"In 'free societies,' anyone who wants may write, and publish, works that attack Christianity; assail the "historical revisionism" of Afro-centrism; deconstruct the myths of Hinduism; defame the Pope; disdain Republican, Democratic, communist, or any other ideology; emblazon the whole of Islam as a hotbed for irrational mania and terrorism; write entire volumes about the alleged worldwide Japanese economic "conspiracy"; and vilify the entirety of the nebulous entity known as the "white establishment" and anyone dictated by skin color to be within it. But, curiously, in the vast expanse of deconstructive engines of all and everything, one cannot criticize the sacrosanct domain of Jewish history, politics, and identity, unless the critic is willing to be systematically marginalized in all walks of life, prepared to be tarnished and branded as a contemptible hate-filled "anti-Semite," risk losing her or her job, and be categorically lumped into mainstream society's moral and intellectual garbage dump reserved for the likes of the Nazis and Ku Klux Klan."
Aaron
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Re: SURPRISE? Jimmy Carter loses some of his JEWISH-AMERICAN supporters! LOL
Aaron,
The only "SURPRISE" to me is that everyone else seems to be overlooking or purposely ignoring what those resignees have in common, which is not only their ethnicity, but more importantly their "Israel-warmness" (Joseph's code name for Zionist politics).
I can't say that I blame them, though. I'm still reading Jimmy Carter's book, and it struck me that he must have been one of Joseph's loyal readers. No kidding.
The book is filled with very close similarities between Joseph's analyses and Carter's ideas, with the main differences being matters of respective "stridency" on the same points and Carter stopping short of calling for the dismantling of Israel. Were it not that Carter is still (?) a member of the Trilateral Commission and a diplomat, I think he would have gone that final step and taken the much harder "blows" in retaliation from the Zionists.
To everyone who still reads hard-copy publications, whether you are Republicans or Democrats, I strongly recommend that you buy and read "Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid".
Finally, I've seen copies of this book on the desks of supervisors (mostly Jewish, as I've mentioned) in my building, and there is a noticeable lapse in the supervisors' rounds of checking to see what us underlings are doing during the days. This should give you another "LOL," Aaron!
Bob
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1/16/2007, 10:44 am
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Re: SURPRISE? Jimmy Carter loses some of his JEWISH-AMERICAN supporters! LOL
Hi again Bob,
I came back to work after an extended vacation yesterday, and I, also, noticed copies of Jimmy Carter’s book floating around the building. I haven’t yet bought one, but I will.
Maybe the issue had never come up in this “new” TFTF, but I’d made it common knowledge that one of the reasons for my anonymity is that I’m also a public servant in the vast bureaucracy. Fortunately, I don’t have an “Israel-warm supervisor” looking over my shoulder, and I’m allowed to get my personal laptop connected to the dialup version of my DSL account during breaks and lunchtimes.
The “buzz” about Carter is in the open around here, and there seems to be about an equal division between his cheerers and jeerers from what I’ve heard.
I personally have had a dislike for Carter ever since he’d been “slid in and out of” the presidency by the Trilateral Commission, to do what no Republican wanted to do, which was giving refuge to the then Shah of Iran and his personal treasury. Having youngsters at the time, I also resented the big spike in the price of peanut butter during and after his presidency. LOL
But in retrospective comparison with the Bushes and Bill Clinton, and in the light of his “telling it almost like it is” to the chagrin of the Zionists, I’ve developed a strong respect for him and his personal morality, whether or not his motive is to repent for his transgressions against God’s will while he was an active elected politician. I guess he finally decided that his “good works” in connection with Habitat for Humanity were not enough to secure his salvation in the afterlife that he is now rapidly approaching, since he is an actual Christian (unlike the Bushes and Clinton). Also, his previous support of Israel was obviously based upon his religious rather than political beliefs.
Like the one of my two Jewish-American Senators who is not a member of the Trilateral Commission, Barbara Boxer, who has publicly broached the subject of American politicians keeping their own children and grandchildren safely at home while urging those of others to “do their patriotic duties” in Iraq and Afghanistan (one of Joseph’s points), Jimmy Carter has opened a dialogue as to whether or not Israel’s interests are truly America’s interests (also one of Joseph’s points).
It might well be “too little too late” in both cases, but they go a long way toward reversing many years of brainwashing propaganda by the Zionists.
Aaron
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