Carter's Israel Problem Revisited

Yet another takedown of Carter's latest diatribe/book on Israel and the Middle East. This time, it is the former head of the Carter Center who has distanced himself from the Center and Carter's nonsensical ravings. Professor Kenneth Stein of Emory University and the Carter Center writes:

President Carter's book on the Middle East, a title too inflammatory to even print, is not based on unvarnished analyses; it is replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments. Aside from the one-sided nature of the book, meant to provoke, there are recollections cited from meetings where I was the third person in the room, and my notes of those meetings show little similarity to points claimed in the book. Being a former President does not give one a unique privilege to invent information or to unpack it with cuts, deftly slanted to provide a particular outlook. Having little access to Arabic and Hebrew sources, I believe, clearly handicapped his understanding and analyses of how history has unfolded over the last decade. Falsehoods, if repeated often enough become meta-truths, and they then can become the erroneous baseline for shaping and reinforcing attitudes and for policy-making. The history and interpretation of the Arab-Israeli conflict is already drowning in half-truths, suppositions, and self-serving myths; more are not necessary. In due course, I shall detail these points and reflect on their origins.

My earlier treatment of Carter and his outlandish and outrageous statements on Israel and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is here.

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