Long time Jimmy Carter aide resigns over book

[michaels]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/...amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-12

ATLANTA (AP) -- A longtime aide to Jimmy Carter has resigned from the Carter Center think tank, calling the former president's new book on Israel and the Arabs one-sided and filled with errors.

Kenneth Stein, the Carter Center's first executive director and founder of its Middle East program, sent a letter that bluntly criticized the book to Carter and others.

Stein wrote that the book, "Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid," was replete with factual errors, material copied from other sources and "simply invented segments," according to an excerpt of the letter published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Deanna Congileo, Carter's spokeswoman, said the former president stands by the book.

Stein, who is also director of the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel at Emory University, did not immediately return a call Wednesday.

Carter issued a brief statement saying that Stein had not been actively involved with the center for more than 12 years and was not involved with the new book. Carter did not directly address Stein's allegations.

It is not the first time Carter and Stein have disagreed over Middle East policy, said Douglas Brinkley, a professor of history at Tulane University and the author of the 1988 Carter biography, "The Unfinished Presidency."

"They've never been on the same page in the Middle East. They've been in an almost constant state of disagreement," Brinkley said. Stein "doesn't trust the Palestinians as much as Carter."

Brinkley said he has read Carter's new book but would not address Stein's accusations.

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This should get interesting....

 

[Lemon law]

So we can conclude that Stein does not see the problem right---nor does Carter---and due to the length of the whole conflict---either does anyone else.

But what we don't seem to see is the folly of waiting for a Palestinian Israeli agreement---which is the rough equivalent to waiting for all the hydrogen in the universe to be converted to helium.-------and if we ever want to see the problem solved---its going to have to come from binding third party arbitration from without.

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

I think we can conclude that Stein has picked a side . . .

 

[miketheidiot]

stein certainly comes off as an unbiased observer in this peice.

 

[fskimospy]

I'm not sure if that's true Lemon, I think people would have said similar things about the Arabs and Israelis pre Camp David as well. The two sides are constantly coming closer to what was originally intended in the UN partition of Palestine, and I think that sooner rather then later you will get the right kind of personalities in charge on both sides for them to really come to a two state agreement. I'm sure that won't totally stop the violence or anything, but... well... I see agreement in their future.

 

[Jaskalas]

Originally posted by: BaliBabyDoc
I think we can conclude that Stein has picked a side . . .

Islam picked our side for us. We are infidels and treated accordingly. Not one of us should be on their side until they surrender their bloodshed and war.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: Jaskalas

Originally posted by: BaliBabyDoc
I think we can conclude that Stein has picked a side . . .

Islam picked our side for us. We are infidels and treated accordingly. Not one of us should be on their side until they surrender their bloodshed and war.

So the Islamic controls you.

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: Jaskalas

Originally posted by: BaliBabyDoc
I think we can conclude that Stein has picked a side . . .

Islam picked our side for us. We are infidels and treated accordingly. Not one of us should be on their side until they surrender their bloodshed and war.

So the Islamic controls you.

I tell him the jump, he tells me how high Wacth us Islamics Mooslemen scare even the bogey man!
===

Interesting - I haven't read or heard of the book till right now, but if some of the allegations are true (plagiarizing?) then it doesn't bode well for the book

 

[Steeplerot]

Originally posted by: Jaskalas

Originally posted by: BaliBabyDoc
I think we can conclude that Stein has picked a side . . .

Islam picked our side for us. We are infidels and treated accordingly. Not one of us should be on their side until they surrender their bloodshed and war.

Do us a favor and convert already then, you already are scared to death and the best ally they could have.

 

[imported_Shivetya]

Carter is consistent, attack the messenger and not the message.

Carter is wrong, mostly because he is usually wrong about anything he does.

 

[Lemon law]

To Shavetya---who writes---Carter is wrong, mostly because he is usually wrong about anything he does.

Sure sounds like circular reasoning to me---and attacking the messenger to boot----say---are you a peanut farmer also?

 

[ayabe]

This is just going to turn into another Israeli apologist thread. Anyone who says anything the least bit critical of Israel is going to be subject to these kinds of attacks.


*Waits patiently for dna to appear*

 

[imported_dna]

Seriously, ayabe, we agreed that you'll PM me when these threads start....

As for the topic, I'll just wait and see what you guys have to say, and make a single remark: you can pretty much expect a biased/distorted view just by reading the title and looking at the picture.

OT: ayabe, I'm still waiting for you to eviscerate the BBC's own report in the other thread. Is vanishing your modus operandi when confronted with such material?

 

[0roo0roo]

http://www.slate.com/id/2155277/nav/tap2/
It's Not ApartheidJimmy Carter's moronic new book about Israel.
By Michael Kinsley

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25653
The World According to Carter
By Alan M. Dershowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | November 24, 2006

carter had rehabilitated his image over time through his charitable works. its too bad he tossed it all away with such a stupid book. i've lost all remaining respect for the man.