 |
| Jimmy Carter writes in a guest book at the end of his visit to the Cuban Jewish community centre in Havana, Cuba, on 28 March 2011. Photograph: Adalberto Roque/AFP/Getty Images |
From Panama to Palestine, Jimmy Carter refused to let his moral voice be silenced
Carter "....warned that big money was now so pervasive in American politics that the US was “no longer a functioning democracy” because of “unlimited political bribery”"
But nothing ran Carter into so much trouble as his willingness to call it as he saw it on Israel. In 2006, he drew a torrent of criticism and abuse with a book critical of Israel’s failure to make peace and end the occupation. The title – Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid – lit the fuse by suggesting Israel pursues a racist policy against the Palestinians...."
".... Carter infuriated his critics further by standing his ground and ramping up the criticism. He said that balanced debate about US policy on Israel is “practically non-existent” in Congress or in presidential races, and accused America’s political leadership of being “in the pocket” of the Jewish state.
“We cannot be peacemakers if American government leaders are seen as knee-jerk supporters of every action or policy of whatever Israeli government happens to be in power at the moment. That is the essential fact that must be faced,” he wrote."
...READ IN FULL IN CONTEXT https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/30/jimmy-carter-foreign-policy-
 | |
| Following his #1 New York Times bestseller, Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine. Palestine Peace Not Apartheid was published in 2007 |
