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To: bentway who wrote (315670)12/15/2006 2:55:43 AM
From: Elroy  Respond to of 1577756
 
Abraham H. Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said: “The title is to de-legitimize Israel, because if Israel is like South Africa, it doesn’t really deserve to be a democratic state. He’s provoking, he’s outrageous, and he’s bigoted.”

Can't this guy read? The title says Palestine, and Carter has said a gazillion times that the apartheir reference is to Palestine, not Israel.



To: bentway who wrote (315670)12/18/2006 7:05:27 PM
From: tejek  Respond to of 1577756
 
Such backlash is triggered by Mr. Carter’s assertions that pro-Israel lobbyists have stifled debate in the United States over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; that Israelis are guilty of human rights abuses in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories; and that the editorial pages of American newspapers rarely present anything but a pro-Israel viewpoint.

All true.......I guess its kill the messenger time.



To: bentway who wrote (315670)12/18/2006 7:06:54 PM
From: tejek  Respond to of 1577756
 
In an essay titled “It’s Not Apartheid,” Michael Kinsley lambasted the book in The Washington Post on Tuesday. “It’s not clear what he means by using the loaded word ‘apartheid,’ since the book makes no attempt to explain it, but the only reasonable interpretation is that Carter is comparing Israel to the former white racist government of South Africa,” Mr. Kinsley wrote.

I hadn't thought of the word apartheid but that's pretty much what it is.