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Hatred is not something I am prone to, not even for the Islamofascist that want nothing more than to separate my head from my shoulders, but if anyone comes close to arousing that emotion in me it is Jimmy Carter.
This man is as close to a traitor as any American has ever come, including Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. At least they only aided one country, Jimmy Carter seems to want to aid all our enemies.
Perhaps it is time for the other 186 members of the Carter Center advisory board to distance themselves from this man. And perhaps it is time for his family to have him tested for Altzheimers's Disease because God, help me, I cannot think of no other reason this man could spew such hatred or be so against his own nation, a nation he once commanded.

Jimmy Carter has a lot of nerve calling this thing "apartheid." I mean, sure, those occupied are are taxed even though they can't vote, forced to pass through checkpoints, imprisoned without cause, raided and denied any form of equality or dignity. They are offered peace while foreign settlements in their territory go up. But calling it "apartheid?" That's going too far.

If the Palestinians put down their weapons, there would be no war. If the Israelis put down their weapons, there would be no Israel.

FK,

"those occupied" - it's Jewish land, and they're the ones occupying it and wanting it all--not just Gaza, Judea and Samaria, but also Tel-Aviv and Haifa. All of it.

"forced to pass through checkpoints" - to prevent suicide bombers from doing their stuff.

"imprisoned without cause" - yep, because suicide bombing isn't a cause. Right.

"raided" - yes, their rocket factories are raided before they can make those rockets and send them over to Sderot. Poor things.

"denied any form of equality or dignity" - if you think those who vow to destroy your country deserve to be accorded equality and dignity, then nothing more need be said.

"They are offered peace while foreign settlements in their territory go up" - Gaza is now Jew-clean--no Jews there whatsoever. The evacuated settlements are now being used as bases for launching rockets onto Sderot, which is within the 1949 Armistice borders. It gives some indication that the struggle of the "Palestinians" may not be toward setting up a state of their own so much as toward destroying another state (G-d forbid).

Keep on appeasing, me leftist buckos. After all, France is so enjoying the fruits of peace with Islam, in the form of cars being torched in its capital by the hundreds, as is Spain, which despite having withdrawn all its troops from Iraq is still on the imams' list for the re-reconquista.

Arabs living in Israel have more political and economic rights than Arabs living in any other country in the Middle East.

I have no sympathy for the Palestinians. They are in the position they are today because instead of trying to build better lives for themselves, they've put all their energy into brutally murdering as many Jews as they could.

If the Palestinian Party People got their collective wish and all the Joos in Israel dropped dead, and they moved in... how long do you think it would be before that tiny strip of land became the same hellhole as the rest of the Middle East?

Based on the Gaza experience, I'd guess two weeks at the outside.

Why is it that the Florida elections in 2000 required the combined manpower of hundreds of agents counting and recounting and looking for hanging chads.

But Chavez has some election irregularities and Carter is sent in. What's he, like some kind of superman who can verify every ballot and check every machine himself? What a joke. The outcome of that one was predetermined when Carter stepped on the plane.

powerful Jewish lobby?

Oh come on, there are a LOT of powerful lobbies. I for one think Carter's book is a fraud, and I've not talked to one Jewish person or even heard or read what the Jewish lobby has to say on this!

Democratic creed: When someone disagrees, don't listen to what they have to say, blame their disagreement on something else.

And another thing...

One thing that has bugged me for a while is the naive perception that there are certain people in the world who are expected to act like adults and certain people who are not.

It's what I call infantilizing, and it's generally applied to minorities in this country, anyone of non-Jewish ethnic background, and other assorted "victims".

The idea is that if there's a problem or a conflict, the resolution is the responsibility of only one side, and the blame for any conflict is applied to that same side.

I see it all the time now. It's easy once you realize what they're doing and how they apply it. You watch, any time a "victim" has been identified by the left wingers, they are no longer expected to act like adults. But their "oppressors" are expected to go the extra mile to help the victim and anytime the victim doesn't like it, it's because the "oppressor" hasn't done enough.

This same mentality is used in the Jewish-Palestinian conflict, illegal alien problems, black/white race relations, etc.

The idea that a specific race, gender, culture, or nationality is inherently more mature than another is condemned by the left, though they use it constantly in their reasoning.

FK, there is NO occupation-that is a biased term in itself. The land was won fair and square from Egypt and Jordan and Syria. They attacked Israel and lost. Get over it. There was never a nation or political unit called Palestine there. Never was there a group of people called Palestinians. The name Palestine is a completely made up word.

Well, I think the point of Carter's book was to point out some horrible conditions, using the term "apartheid" which is a rigid policy of segregation. I don't think there's any doubt that is going on....so , in a sense, Carter's book is accurate. Now, whether or not apartheid is necessary is another issue.

So is FK saying the book is fake but accurate?

Chris is correct when he points out that historically there was never a Palestinian people. When Israel was formed (with the blessing of the all-knowing, all-mighty UN), the Arabs suddenly came up with a Palestinian people who should displace the Israelis simply because they found the idea of a Jewish state in their midst to be abhorrent. Arabs who are citizens of Israel can vote and otherwise live happy, productive lives. The Palestinians have thwarted any chance at peaceful co-existence because their goal is not peaceful co-existence, but complete destruction of Israel. Therefore, in self-defense of their sovereignty, Israel is forced to keep the Palestinians out. Any other policy would be a signature on their own death warrant.

I don't think I said Carter's book was fake. I said it seems accurate, which is also corroborated by no refutation of apartheid-like tactics vs the Palestinians. I'm not defending Palestinian violence. There's no question Israel has a valid security concern. But what Carter is trying to say is that such acts, ironically, are counter-productive to peace. The conditions many Palestinians live under actually breeds more violence and hatred on both sides.

FK,

"But what Carter is trying to say is that such acts, ironically, are counter-productive to peace. The conditions many Palestinians live under actually breeds more violence and hatred on both sides."

Something you Leftists fail to understand, despite all the evidence for it daily:

Suicide bombing is not a "Palestine" thing, it's an Islam thing. Or to put it another way: this isn't about a Palestinian David struggling for its national independence from the Israeli Goliath, it's about the Islamic Goliath not being willing to brook even the tiniest encroachment on its territory, which happens to be the whole world. As in "Palestine", so in Southern Thailand, so in Kashmir, so in Somalia, so even in Britain and France. The more you try to appease them with concessions of all kinds, the worse your strategic position will be when you have to fight for your survival once you understand all the diplomatic efforts didn't work.