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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (18492)	12/15/2006 5:00:39 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

Oral...It would appear carter has done a lot to advance the goals of islam terror...wittingly or unwittingly? Former President Carter says he won't visit Brandeis 12/15/2006, 8:15 a.m. ET The Associated Press masslive.com BOSTON (AP) — Former President Carter has decided not to visit Brandeis University to talk about his new book "Palestine: Peace not Apartheid" because he does not want to debate Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz as the university had requested. "I don't want to have a conversation even indirectly with Dershowitz," Carter told The Boston Globe. "There is no need to for me to debate somebody who, in my opinion, knows nothing about the situation in Palestine." The debate request 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, Carter said. Carter, who brokered the 1978 Camp David peace accord between Israel and Egypt and who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, has said the goal of his book is to provoke dialogue and action. "There is no debate in America about anything that would be critical of Israel," he said. But it's Carter who is unwilling to debate his own best-selling book, controversial because the title's inclusion of the word "apartheid" appears to equate the treatment of Palestinians with the state-sanctioned racial segregation that once divided South Africa. "President Carter said he wrote the book because he wanted to encourage more debate; then why won't he debate?" Dershowitz said. The effort to bring Carter to Brandeis began in November when computer science professor and Faculty Senate chairman Harry Mairson wrote to Carter asking whether he would be interested in talking at the university. "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," Carter said. Brandeis, located in Waltham, was founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian university under the sponsorship of the American Jewish community.