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My Problem with Jimmy Carter's Book

[Middle East Quarterly] Kenneth W. Stein - Carter allows ideology or opinion to get in the way of facts. The narrative aims its attack toward Israel and Israel's supporters. It contains errors of both commission and omission. He manipulates information, redefines facts, and exaggerates conclusions. Falsehoods, when repeated and backed by the prestige of Carter's credentials, can comprise an erroneous baseline for shaping and reinforcing attitudes and policymaking. Rather than bring peace, they can further fuel hostilities, encourage retrenchment, and hamper peacemaking. Carter had invited me to serve as the Carter Center's first permanent executive director, a position I held between 1983 and 1986, and as the center's Middle East fellow, an association I continued until December 2006 when I resigned that post over both the inaccuracies in Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid and its message, which contradicts the Carter Center's founding purposes.
2007-01-29 01:00:00
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