Carter: "Apartheid" Is Apt For West Bank

Former President Defends Book Title, Says He Was Never Invited To Debate

(CBS)  By CBSNews.com's Jennifer Hoar

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Former President Jimmy Carter on Thursday defended using the term "apartheid" in his latest book and disputed that he had ever been asked to debate a Harvard professor who has been critical of the book's premises.

Speaking at George Washington University, Carter addressed the controversy that has erupted over "Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid." Many Jewish-Americans and Israel sympathizers have argued that the book is wrongfully biased against Israel and have taken issue with the invocation of apartheid, a term for state-sponsored segregation, to describe the relationship between Israel and Palestine.

Following the book's publication, 14 advisers to the Carter Center, a human rights organization, resigned over what they considered factual errors in the book. All were Jewish-Americans.

When asked whether using "apartheid" helped his cause, Carter did not equivocate.

"Yes, I do," he said. The term refers to the "forced segregation of one people inside the land of another," he explained. "That's exactly what's happening in the West Bank."

Describing how Palestinians have been forced from their homes and placed on subsidized Israeli settlements, Carter lamented that Palestinians' lives there have become "almost intolerable." The oppression and persecution that Palestinians have endured in these lands comes at the hand of only a "minority of Israelis who desire to confiscate and colonize Arab land," Carter said.

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who has been especially vocal in disputing Carter's apartheid analogy and historical inaccuracies he believes pervade the book, also came up in Carter's remarks.

Carter reportedly had turned down an invitation from Brandeis University to debate Dershowitz about his book, and Dershowitz has been chomping at the bit for Carter to oblige. However, the former President said no such invitation was ever extended.

Never referring to Dershowitz by name, Carter said he had "never received any invitation to debate, contrary to what a Harvard professor has said."

During the question-and-answer session, Carter added that Dershowitz "knows very little, if anything, about the present circumstances in the West Bank."

When asked by an undergraduate student if peace was even still possible between Israel and Palestine, Carter took an indirect swipe at the Bush administration for neglecting to engage dialogue in that regard.

"Since (Bill) Clinton left office, over the last six years, not one single day [has been devoted to] overtures to peace agreements," Carter said. "The current policy is leading to an immoral outcome."

[lars008-2009]

these stupid silly little fascist nazi Islamic muslims are no different than the stupid silly little fascist nazi germans

"When they came to arrest the Jews, I did not say any thing. I am not a Jew.
When they came to arrest the communists, I did not say anything. I am not a communist.
When they came to arrest the socialists, I did not say anything. I am not a socialist.
When they cam to arrest the homosexuals, gypsies, mentally retarded, etc. I did not say anything, I am none of the above.
When they came to arrest me, there was no one to speak for me."

when any one of us are not free then non of us are free.... fascist nazi islam enslaves and murders non muslims.....

[lars008-2009]

azman80
when fascist nazi islam ends apartheid treatment of non muslims in their countries and acknowledge israels right to exist... then i might worry about israel... intil then... go pound sand haji....
Afghanistan | Albania | Algeria | Azerbaijan | Bahrain | Bangladesh | Benin | Brunei | Burkina Faso | Cameroon | Chad | Comoros | Ctte d'Ivoire | Djibouti | Dubai | Egypt | Gabon | Gambia | Guinea | Guinea-Bissau | Guyana | Indonesia | Iran | Iraq | Jordan | Kazakhstan | Kuwait | Kyrgyz Republic | Libya | Malaysia | Maldives | Mali | Mauritania | Morocco | Mozambique | Niger | Nigeria | Oman | Pakistan | Qatar | Saudi Arabia | Senegal | Sierra Leone | Somalia | Sudan | Suriname | Syria | Tajikistan | Togo | Tunisia | Turkey | Turkmenistan | Uganda | United Arab Emirates | Uzbekistan | Yemen |

[azman80]

Obvioustruth, your postings of these retarded cutdowns of people on this site make you more retarded than the comments you make. You speak as if you are a high superior and are more educated than most of the folks in here. I highly doubt that you have any understanding of what Israel is doing to the areas they OCCUPY. Go to youtube.com and look up george galloway on sky news and hear the truth yourself. Screw Israels government as they are a bunch of scum buckets as yourself. The people are very nice and have heard it myself from them that their government is a group of animals.

[lars008-2009]

Patrick Henry
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! March 23, 1775

The following text is a fatwa, or declaration of war, by Osama bin Laden first published in Al Quds Al Arabi, a London-based newspaper, in August, 1996. The fatwa is entitled "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places."
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/terrorism/international/fatwa_1996.html

Text of Fatwah Urging Jihad Against Americans
http://www.ict.org.il/articles/fatwah.htm
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm

Osama bin Laden's Declaration of War
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden%27s_Declaration_of_War

[lars008-2009]

Patton: Oh mighty and most merciful father. We humbly beseech thee of thy great goodness to restrain this immoderate weather with which we have had to contend. Grant us fair weather for battle. Graciously harken to us as solders who call upon thee that armed with thy power we may advance from victory to victory, and crush the oppression and wickedness of our enemies and establish thy justice among men and nations. AMEN.

[obvioustruth]

Lieber1881, you are a wise man! Your only failing is trying to educate the ineducable.

When I first saw these maniacal ravings, I thought I had accidentally clicked onto some hospital/asylum website where all the mental patients had access to computers. Other explanations I considered were posters with home gas leaks or massive brain tumors.

I could imagine these "little ladies" living in their mom's basements, feverishly pounding on their sticky keyboards like mad monkeys hoping to write Hamlet, but publishing the stink that permeates this website.

Good luck Lieber1881. Teaching common sense to liberals is like teaching quantum physics to chimps. Their feces fights are pretty funny to watch though.

Life to Israel!

[lars008-2009]

It is convenient for liberals to forget that the "Grand Mufti of Jerusalem" went to Germany as a guest of Hitler during WWII...and begged Hitler to find the "final solution" to the jewish problem. This same Grand mufti used his influence to raise Two Muslim SS Divisions in Yugoslavia (Kosovo) and Albaina. These divisions were responsible for the murder of almost 1 Million jews, Serbs and Gypsies.

This same Grand Mufti was the maternal uncle of Yassir Arafat! The Mufti's war continues today worldwide.
http://news.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=m&board=37138459&tid=apiraq&sid=37138459&mid=1148296

[lars008-2009]

Europeans taking over another country and making the native people second class citizens... sounds like apartheid to me. They don't call 'em AshkeNAZIs for nothin'.
Posted by zootallures2 at 07:49 PM : Mar 09, 2007

what you really mean.........
fascist nazi islamic muslims taking over another country and making the nonmuslim people second class citizens... sounds like apartheid to me. They don't call 'em fascist nazi islamic muslims for nothin'.

in thier global jihad to take over the world with fronts in the philippines, thailand, india, china, russia, yugoslavia, africa, etc etc etc.... they have taken over Afghanist
an | Albania | Algeria | Azerbaijan | Bahrain | Bangladesh | Benin | Brunei | Burkina Faso | Cameroon | Chad | Comoros | Ctte d'Ivoire | Djibouti | Dubai | Egypt | Gabon | Gambia | Guinea | Guinea-Bissau | Guyana | Indonesia | Iran | Iraq | Jordan | Kazakhstan | Kuwait | Kyrgyz Republic | Libya | Malaysia | Maldives | Mali | Mauritania | Morocco | Mozambique | Niger | Nigeria | Oman | Pakistan | Qatar | Saudi Arabia | Senegal | Sierra Leone | Somalia | Sudan | Suriname | Syria | Tajikistan | Togo | Tunisia | Turkey | Turkmenistan | Uganda | United Arab Emirates | Uzbekistan | Yemen | where all nonmuslims are second class citizens....... how many more will fall???

[azman80]

Here is a good example of Israel using kids as human shields from their OWN website. These people are messed up and talking to a few people that have been to Israel, the people dont want U.S support, only the Israeli government wants us.

http://www.btselem.org/english/Human_Shields/20070225_Human_Shields_in_Nablus.asp

[azman80]

Carter is right. Israel's government is just as trashy as other governments. They are *** over the Palestineans hardcore and trying to act like they are the good guys. Without the U.S, Israel would be nothing but a bunch of headless chickens. Everybody know that. If you look at the AIPAC website, just look at how they are a bunch of snitches and ******* and are so quick to point fingers at others that do wrong but dont see anything they do as wrong. They control the U.S to keep them selves protected. Dont believe me, get yourself a sattelite that gives you overseaes channels and see what we dont see here. If your against what I say, do bad, boohoo to your sensitive self. Go ahead, complain, snitch on me, do it. This is all my opinion that I left as a comment.