At the August Democratic convention, absent among the prominent speakers was former president Jimmy Carter - who was prevented from addressing the crowd because he criticized Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
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My criticism of the Democrats' shunning of Carter, however, does not imply an endorsement of his appalling presidential ( Read more... )

By Brett Lieberman and Nathan Guttman

Thu. Aug 28, 2008

Denver - Former president Jimmy Carter’s controversial views on Israel cost him a place on the podium at the Democratic Party convention in late August, senior Democratic operatives acknowledged to the Forward.

Breaking with the tradition of giving speech time to living former presidents, ( Read more... )

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A Human Rights Crime

by Jimmy Carter

July - August 2008
The Link - Volume 41, Issue 3

The world must stop standing idle while the people of Gaza are treated with such cruelty

The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world. An entire ( Read more... )

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By Cnaan Liphshiz, Haaretz Correspondent

The emotion in Andreas Van Agt's voice as he lambastes Israel's behavior seems puzzling for a man of his status. It is especially intriguing when one is reminded that this blue-eyed ( Read more... )

The New Israel and the Old: Why Gentile Americans Back the Jewish State 

In its July/August 2008 edition, Walter Russel Mead, a Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, published an article titled “The New Israel and the Old.” The article is a thinly veiled order to America’s political establishment to support the Zionist entity, complete with ‘Sprachregelung’ how to ( Read more... )

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Jimmy Carter has snubbed the lecture circuit cash cow to devote his post-presidential life to brokering peace in the Middle East and fighting disease. So why is it that so many Americans can't stand him?

Jonathan Freedland asks him

• Jonathan Freedland
• The Guardian,
• Saturday June 7 2008
• Article history

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