As he writes in courant.com, it looks like the answer is a definite yes. The former president comments on his book "Palestine:Peace, not Apartheid" and his reasons for writing it. In the world according to Carter, Palestinians have worse lives than black citizens had during the worst apartheid years of South Africa. Carter conveniently chooces to forget that the Palestinians were granted autonomy, have the right to chooce their own leaders and receive more money from the European Union than any other people has ever received. They choce Hamas, not the Israelis.
According to Carter, roadblocks and other restrictions put on the Palestinian population are bad. He omits to mention that these were only put in place because of the suicide bombers and other terrorists. He forgets to mention that the Palestinian leaders haven't build one single hospital or school with all the financial support they receive. Their only interest is to further fuel the miserable existence of their constituency and hence the Palestinian - Israeli conflict.
Carter worries me because he is influential and because he is quite mainstream.
To not to see the differences between the Israeli restrictions and terrorim; to not see the difference between apartheid and self-preservation; to not to see the differences between an accidental death caused by a soldier or by a cunning terrorist...
Yes, he has lost it.
posted by Emilia.kk @ 11:27 AM
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