Jimmy Carter's Latest Book

Jimmy Carter has been labeled an anti-Semite. This man, who has probably done more for the peace process in the Middle East than anyone else, who has won the Nobel Peace Prize "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development", is now involved in a controversy over his latest book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid".

Fourteen members of an advisory board to Jimmy Carter’s human rights organization resigned Thursday, January 11th, to protest his new book, which criticizes Israeli policy in the Palestinian territories.

Is this such a taboo subject, that we turn our heads away from what is factually happening in Israel? Many are fearful of broaching the subject for fear of being branded a "Jew hater." Yes, we all know the Holocaust happened, and it was a tragic and sad time in human history, but does that mean that we should look the other way at the system of segregation that is currently taking place in Israel?

I have yet to read the book, but have already ordered it. You can too by clicking on the book cover photo.

In the meantime, you can read this article by Shulamit Aloni. She is the former Education Minister of Israel. She has been awarded both the Israel Prize and the Emil Grunzweig Human Rights Award by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.

EXCERPT: Jimmy Carter does not need me to defend his reputation that has been sullied by Israelophile community officials. The trouble is that their love of Israel distorts their judgment and blinds them from seeing what's in front of them. Israel is an occupying power that for 40 years has been oppressing an indigenous people, which is entitled to a sovereign and independent existence while living in peace with us. We should remember that we too used very violent terror against foreign rule because we wanted our own state. And the list of victims of terror is quite long and extensive.