“Jimmy Carter is asking the Jewish community for forgiveness — and insists it’s not simply because his grandson has decided to launch a political career with a run for the Georgia state Senate.” More on JTA.
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Reza Aslan, a California-based academic, has been speaking to Jimmy Carter about the Middle East. It is the kind of interview which all politicians dream about. Aslan bolsters rather than challenges Carter, leading him to his favorite topics and themes with dutifully worded questions. Two of Carter’s answers actually commence with the words, “That’s exactly right.”
Continue reading ‘What Carter Can Learn from the Erdogan Outburst’
Writing in the Washington Post, former President Jimmy Carter says the advancement of human rights was a cornerstone of United States foreign policy until the attacks of September 11, 2001.
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His last book was entitled, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” His forthcoming book has - at least on the surface - a more anodyne title.
This is a guest post by David Adler.
It’s a good thing that Jimmy Carter is pressing the case for help to the Zimbabwean population. But following the Mugabe regime’s politicized denial of a visa to Carter and his group, the former president’s statements have a weirdly passive ring — in stark contrast, one might point out, to his unequivocal denunciations of the Israeli occupation.
