Jimmy Carter is really a piece of work:
The many controversial issues concerning Palestine and
the path to peace for Israel are intensely debated among Israelis
and throughout other nations - but not in the United States. For
the last 30 years, I have witnessed and experienced the severe
restraints on any free and balanced discussion of the facts. This
reluctance to criticize any policies of the Israeli government is
because of the extraordinary lobbying efforts of the
American-Israel Political Action Committee and the absence of any
significant contrary voices.
***
Book reviews in the mainstream media have been written
mostly by representatives of Jewish organizations who would be
unlikely to visit the occupied territories, and their primary
criticism is that the book is anti-Israel… Out in the real
world, however, the response has been overwhelmingly
positive.
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An enormous imprisonment wall is now under
construction, snaking through what is left of Palestine to
encompass more and more land for Israeli settlers. In many ways,
this is more oppressive than what blacks lived under in South
Africa during apartheid. I have made it clear that the
motivation is not racism but the desire of a minority of Israelis
to confiscate and colonize choice sites in Palestine, and then to
forcefully suppress any objections from the displaced citizens.
Obviously, I condemn any acts of terrorism or violence against
innocent civilians, and I present information about the terrible
casualties on both sides.
Maybe this caller wasn't all that out of line after
all.
topics:
Mainstream Media, Israel, Africa
