PALESTINE -- PEACE NOT APARTHEID

Copyright © 2006 by Jimmy Carter

[The Ralph Nader Librarian's Comment:  One great sacred cow stands in the center of American politics, an enormous bovine blocking all progress in the Middle East, immune from the chopping block, never to be sacrificed under any circumstances, and that cow is Israel.  While not exactly a fire-breathing denunciation of the perverse imprisonment of the entire Palestinian populace in the name of preserving the security of the children of holocaust survivors, Jimmy Carter's book, "Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid," is nevertheless a courageous work.  Moving too fast for both Hillary and Barack, and headed in entirely the opposite direction from John McCain, Carter does a reasonable job of creating a tiny opening through which actual humanitarian sentiment can shine.  While it is no news that our foreign policy serves only elites with special access to Congress, the White House, and the Pentagon, it is still taboo to suggest that the nation's Israel policy may be a product of media manipulation, religious sentimentality, and the unholy alliance between weapons makers and banking.  And yes, it does take someone like Jimmy Carter to say it.  Now, first time in HTML, available for study and discussion at The Ralph Nader Library.]

The Bible says that when the first blood was shed among His children, God asked Cain, the slayer; "Where is Abel thy brother?" And he said, "I know not. Am I my brothers keeper?" And the Lord said, "What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed ..."
(GENESIS 4:9-11)

The blood of Abraham, God's father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God -- an anguished cry for peace.
-- from The Blood of Abraham, by Jimmy Carter

False Testament:  Archaeology Refutes the Bible's Claim to History, by Daniel Lazare

Table of Contents

Historical Chronology

1. Prospects for Peace
2. My First Visit to Israel, 1973
3. My Presidency, 1977-81
4. The Key Players
5. Other Neighbors
6. The Reagan Years, 1981-89
7. My Visits with Palestinians
8. The George H. W. Bush Years
9. The Oslo Agreement
10. The Palestinian Election, 1996
11. Bill Clinton's Peace Efforts
12. The George W. Bush years
13. The Geneva Initiative
14. The Palestinian Election, 2005
15. The Palestinian and Israeli Elections, 2006
16. The Wall as a Prison
17. Summary

Appendix 1: U.N. Resolution 242,1967
Appendix 2: U.N Resolution 338,1973
Appendix 3: Camp David Accords, 1978
Appendix 4: Framework for Egypt Israel Peace Treaty, 1978
Appendix 5: U.N. Resolution 465,1980
Appendix 6: Arab Peace Proposal, 2002
Appendix 7: Israel's Response to the Roadmap, May 25, 2003
Acknowledgments
Index

LIST OF MAPS

1. The Middle East Today
2. The U.N. Partition Plan, 1947
3. Israel, 1949-67
4. Israel, 1967-82
5. Israel, 1982, 2006
6. Clinton's Proposal, 2000
7. Sharon's Plan, 2002
8. Geneva Initiative, 2003
9. Palestinians Surrounded, 2006

   

   The Middle East Today

   

   The U.N. Partition Plan

    

   Israel, 1949-67

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