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Jimmy Carter apologizes over book passage
Yaakov Lappin
Published: 27.01.07, 08:00
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31. Richard was almost right
Jerry   (01.27.07)
Jimmy Carter 's brother was a dope--otherwise Richard was 100% right.
32. Wrong apology, Jimmy
jps ,   efrat   (01.27.07)
Carter's apology is hollow, and one can only question if he is trying to adjust the sales curve for his book, or if he's simply trying to mask over his major wrong by doing a little bitty right. The book should be pulled off the shelves, and Carter should apologize for ever having put the title on it in the first place. There is no equivalence between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and what happend in South Africa with apartheid. Carter's attempt to whitewash a complex problem by mislabelling it does nothing to help the situation. By throwing out the apartheid lie, he moves peace farther away, not closer. It is no small wonder that so many members of the Carter Center board have resigned in protest.
33. Mr. Peanut
Robert Goldman ,   cooper city Florida   (01.27.07)
has a peanut for a brain! also in that same brain size are the following. #'s 2,4,possably #7. but then the statement made was as clear as the color black, #21 for sure and I'm sure that others will surface like a floater in the WC to stink it up worse .
34. Thank You Mr Carter. Now Go To Hell
David ,   Marietta USA   (01.27.07)
35. australian muslim
toni ,   sabme   (01.27.07)
like it or not the muslim cleric was only obeying his qurans command to jihad till only islam is left. to not be a hipocrit and stay at home but to fight the unbelievers wherever you find them and muhammed claimed that allah turned certain jews into munkeys and pigs. the reward for dying in jihad is immediate paradice and virgins female not male virgins.
36. #35 - your religious views are pure evil.
Andy ,   ramat hasharon   (01.27.07)
37. I don't accept your apology
Jenny   (01.27.07)
You have attempted to damage Jews' image worldwide. We are not like the dhimmis at Brandeis who are fooled by you.
38. oych! how can they be in the same room with him?
What's wrong with th   (01.27.07)
he portrays the 67 war as a war intiated by Israel to occupy territories, by attacking Jordan! Jordan! Israel tried to keep Jordan out of the war and wouldn't fight it untill they launched 16,000 missiles at Israel citizens! He is all over the place with his lies! The nerve of the horrible man! He starts his historial review of the Jewish people since the ancient times. Events like the camp david talks are in it. But a minor event like the holocaust? nope. that shouldn't be surprising, since he had a ceromany in which he called a Saudi holocaust denier "My dear friend" and recieved a fat check from him. The horrible Saudi had his check sent back by Harvard, for his AntiSemitism and holocaust denaying. He says Barak didn't ofer Arafat 97% of the territories at Camp David. In other words, according to him, Barak and Clinton are lying. I can't go on. I'm so mad! they shouldn't have sat in the same room as him. What's wrong with American Jews?
39. andy
toni ,   sabme   (01.27.07)
these are not my religious views they are in the koran. your responce is so typical of someone who is either denying the truth or ignorant of it.
40. Carter said there are too many Jews on Holocaust council
Sarah Davidson ,   Jerusalem   (01.27.07)
Former President Jimmy Carter once complained there were “too many Jews” on the government’s Holocaust Memorial Council, Monroe Freedman, the council’s former executive. Freedman, who served on the council during Carter’s term as president, also revealed a noted Holocaust scholar who was a Presbyterian Christian was rejected from the council’s board by Carter’s office because the scholar’s name “sounded too Jewish.” Freedman, now a professor of law at Hofstra University, was picked by the council’s chairman, author Elie Weisel, to serve as executive director in 1980. The council, created by the Carter White House, went on to establish the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
41. Stupid idiot Carter still wont debate
RA   (01.27.07)
42. Carter is under pressure from the Democrats
Tracy W   (01.27.07)
Overt anti-Semitism by one of their own is not accepted during a presidential campaign.
43. Has anyone confronted him about the Arab money?
Tracy W   (01.27.07)
Not in the interviews I've watched or listened to. Has anybody heard any reference to that during an interview? Or about his support for a Nazi war criminal during his presidency? President Carter tried to stop the expulsion of a Nazi criminal who had become American citizen, it was revealed recently.
44. 2 Faced Hypocrite / Al Jazeera Interview
Semsem ,   New York, USA   (01.28.07)
He's a 2 faced hypocrite. Just go listen on MemriTV his interview on Al Jazeera where he said thatfiring rockets at Israel is "not terrorism."
45. I am ashamed to call myself a liberal
ashamed ,   Jerusalem   (01.28.07)
If this is supposedly the liberal view, than I am ashamed, for this blind liberalism cannot just give back land and hope for peace. Dershowitz is right
46. Carter: the Cartoon
Zvi ,   USA   (01.28.07)
http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000765.html Mr. Carter: after you not only plagiarize, but monstrously distort the plagiarized information, and then invent "evidence," and then deny any wrongdoing, you have zero credibility. Lies on top of lies on top of lies. I used to respect you. Never again.
47. To concerned Israeli number #10
ConcernedPalestinian   (01.27.07)
The book From Time Immemorial you mentioned is full of bias. It states a lot of wrong information and repeats the same zioinist lies that Palestine had no people before the Jews started immigrating there at the start of the 20th century. No one buys that... If you keep reading things like that, I will be more concerned. I have read Carter's book. It has no bias what so ever. He is saying the truth. the truth that all the world knows, is that Palestine was stolen from its native people under the cover of the Jewish religion. The arguement that Jews go back to Judea is similar to christians go back to Jerusalem and muslims go back to Mecca... this is rubbish of course.... Not all muslims descend from Mecca even if they speak arabic. And not all chrisitians descende from Jerusalem or the Vatican. And not all Jews are from Judea.....
48. #47
Palestinian ,   Haifa, Israel   (01.28.07)
Very well said. Couldn't have put it better myself.
49. CARTER=GENIUS
(01.28.07)
and good luck to him. he is very brave- and noble- and A NOBLE PEACE PRIZE WINNER- and an ex-AMERICAN PRESIDENT. HE IS LOVELY and jews are just freaking out cus the truth is rising to the surface.
51. No point apologizing for stupidity, the man seems to believe
Uzi ,   Haifa   (01.28.07)
in the crap he trades. If Carter is really contrite, or at least wants to clarify his noble intentions, maybe he should share the lucrative proceeds from his book with a Jewish charity of his choice.
52. Carter is the true face of the Democratic party
Beth Landau ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (01.28.07)
Israel, and sometimes by extension, Jews, are not just a bogeyman for Democrats. Support for the Palestinian "cause" in the Dem Party has been on the upswing, most prevalent among college kids, but becoming more mainstreamed and legitimized. The rise of anti Semitic/Zionist/Israeli political sentiment bears watching very closely, especially as it seeps into and could saturate Democrat territory. The GOP has pretty well isolated the anti-Israeli Buchananites whose already small base in the party appears to be shrinking, but increasing numbers of young, urban, Muslim and African American Democrats would agree with the international Left's condemnation of Israel and its policy in support of her. Many Democrats are rabidly anti-Israel and rather anti-Jew. To them, Israelis and Jews are the new white oppressors, and Arabs the sympathetic victims of Israel and America. Crazy, sure, but this view is gaining more ground than party leaders and the press (who feeds this perspective) would like to admit.
53. can he take his book off the market ?
nili ,   tel aviv   (01.28.07)
what`s the point of the apology if the damage has already been made, and 2 billion arabs will buy his book ? the one time apology will be forgotten but the book will remain.
54. CARTER WHEN YOU DIE YOU WILL MEET THE GOD OF ISRAEL.
AVRAHAM ,   JERUSALEM   (01.28.07)
MAY HE HAVE NO MERCY ON YOUR SOUL.
55. #53 - take it off the market?
oblox   (01.28.07)
If 2 billion arabs buy the book, that's enough reason to keep it on the market ya dummy. Plus, freedom of speech please, none of this facist book burning you are suggesting (take the book of the market). LOL
56. re: Beth Landau
Ron Ackert ,   Indio, CA   (01.28.07)
Beth, you need to come over to the States and do a speaking tour to all of the major Jewish communities. Although many would consider you a heretic, you speak the truth about the Democratic Party - the same Democratic Party that has never repudiated Robert KKK Byrd; and was the political home of George Wallace and Lester Maddox as well. It is the same party that looked the other way when it became public that Robert F. Kennedy illegally wiretapped Dr. Martin Luther King. Then there is the loathing of Joe Lieberman because he refuses to march lockstep (make that goosestep) with the Surrender Monkey left.
57. To Hani (#2)
Jasmin ,   Haifa   (01.28.07)
Sure, why not give him a Nobel prize? Ever since Arafat got one, I've realized they're totally meaningless.
58. The point is...
Mush DeLeon ,   Brooklyn, New York   (01.28.07)
... This whole "left-wing" Arab sympathizing act can only go on so long. If you're truly a liberal, open-minded person, you don't identify with the "death to the jews and infidels", "women are subjective property", and "free press means Imam editors" sort of theology. It's just NOT left-wing. Carter has seen this and now has to cover up his anti-semetic diarrhea.
59. This
jack eyoming   (01.28.07)
antisemite should rot in hell.
60. Pull the other one...
Lior ,   London   (01.28.07)
So, now it's an editing problem, is it? Pull the other one, James, it's got bells on... Or as the French say: Suck the other one... more appropriate, frankly, not only has Carter lost his bite, he's proving himself to be a dribbling, toothless geriatric. Can't someone find a nice rest home for him to spend his twighlight years in befuddled bewilderment? The man's past it - put him out to grass...
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