Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Jimmy Carter - Says no to debate
Won't visit equals won't debate.
Is the AP headline soft on Jimmy Carter?...
Is the AP headline soft on Jimmy Carter?...
I found this Associated Press story at MassLive.com:
"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."
