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

[West]

Wikipedia link, lot to read here

[HeavilyArmed]

Washington Post review

None too favorable.

[West]

Personally, I don't see a lot of substance in that article.

Edit: for the record, that's from the editorial page - calling it a "Washington Post review" is a bit misleading.

She's criticizing Carter for not talking about the holocaust??

"by almost ignoring the Holocaust, Carter gives inadvertent comfort to those who deny its importance or even its historical reality, in part because it helps them deny Israel's right to exist"

This is just ridiculously unfair, IMO.

So is bringing up Darfur to criticize Carter for something he said on television. If he called conditions for Palestinians "one of the worst examples of human rights deprivation", the existence of other, worse human rights situations does not make his statement false, obviously. Honestly, is this the best she's got against him??

Then she just gives a list of individuals (all apparently Jewish) who have criticized the book, and closes by saying "others can enumerate the numerous factual errors in the book". Evidently she can't.

[Felix_Nietzsche]

.....is like trying to learn to be rich from a guy who has been bankrupt 10 times.
Jimmy should have stuck with pounding nails for Habitat for Humanity.

[Mickey Brausch]

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Jimmy Carter should have stuck with pounding nails for Habitat for Humanity.

[/ QUOTE ]Felix, your saving grace is honesty.

Humor it ain't.

Sincerely, etc