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December 16, 2006
Jimmy Carter: Coward
Not content with his resurgent popularity as the latest high-profile Jew-hater anti-Israeli, terrorist apologist, worst-ex-president-ever Jimmah Carter adds hypocritical coward to his CV.
BOSTON - Former President Carter turned down a request to debate Alan Dershowitz about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying the outspoken Harvard law professor "knows nothing about the situation."
Carter, author of a new book advocating "peace not apartheid" in the region, said he will not visit Brandeis University to discuss the book because the university requested he debate Dershowitz.
"I don't want to have a conversation even indirectly with Dershowitz," Carter said in Friday's Boston Globe. "There is no need ... to debate somebody who, in my opinion, knows nothing about the situation in Palestine."
The school's debate request, Carter said, is proof that many in the United States are unwilling to hear an alternative view on the nation's most taboo foreign policy issue, Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory.
He said the goal of his book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," is to provoke dialogue and action.
"There is no debate in America about anything that would be critical of Israel," he said.
The reference to "apartheid," the word for South Africa's former system of state-sanctioned racial segregation, has angered some rabbis because it appears to equate that system with the treatment of Palestinians.
Brandeis was founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian university under the sponsorship of the American Jewish community. Carter said he initially was interested in going there.
"I thought it would be a good idea to go to a campus that had a lot of Jewish students and get a lot questions," he said. But then the initial proposal evolved into a plan for a debate.
Did you get that?
Carter said, "There is no debate in America about anything that would be critical of Israel," but when challenged to do exactly that -- debate the issue -- by a knowledgeable, articulate lefty who disagrees, well, "There is no need ... to debate somebody who, in my opinion, knows nothing about the situation in Palestine."
Which is just the perfect response from the only president to flee a killer rabbit; allow an American embassy and its staff to be held by a pissant Third-World nation for more than a year; and to travel the world in his dotage bad-mouthing his own country.
Shameful.
Posted by Mike Lief at December 16, 2006 12:05 AM
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