Reading Jimmy Carter's new book on the Middle East

[Mickey Brausch]

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Are you stating that West or anyone else would find in [the Jimmy Carter book about the Middle East conflict] the makings of an insightful rendition of Middle East history?

[/ QUOTE ]I'd state that the book signifies a shift in the posture of American attitudes towards the Middle East, a very slight but still significant shift. Criticism of Israeli policies are not often encountered in American domestic politics and the life of a politician has been known to suffer quite strongly whenever he is perceived by the media or the various PACs to be "anti-Israel". This is a book by an ex-president who places some of the blame for the ongoing bloody impasse on "our side" as well and not exclusively on the Palestinians and the Arabs; and that's noteworthy.

By the way, this is a book that, comfortably, could have been written by George H.W. Bush.

But his son is president.

Mickey Brausch