+ Get Carter! I have finished reading Palestine Peace Not Apartheid by former President Jimmy Carter and it is excellent. Carter's love of Israelis and Palestinians and all humanity comes through page after page after page. Carter has taken a huge risk in writing this book with its provocative title. He is truly a prophet of biblical dimensions.

Prophets are always attacked and often attacked viciously. Many human beings, for whatever reasons, resist truth and resist it with passion. So, I am not surprised that Carter has had heaps of mean and ignorant insults poured on him in recent weeks. Chris Hedges now has given Carter some great support. The Witherspoon Society offers "Chris Hedges comments on the attacks on Jimmy Carter’s book". Excerpt: "Jimmy Carter’s recent book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, has been savagely attacked by the Anti-Defamation League and many other Jewish groups for his view that Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories amounts to a kind of apartheid. He has been called anti-Semitic – and worse. Chris Hedges has written two brief essays in response to the attacks on Carter. In "Worse than Apartheid", he argues that the Israeli treatment of the Palestinian people is in fact worse than the apartheid ('separation') practiced by the white South African government against the black people of their land."

Here's an excerpt from the second article, "Get Carter": "The Israel lobby in the United States does not serve Israel or the Jewish community--it serves the interests of the Israeli extreme right wing. Most Israelis have come to understand that peace will be possible only when their country complies with international law and permits Palestinians to build a viable and sustainable state based on the 1967 borders, including, in some configuration, East Jerusalem." READ WITHERSPOON ARTICLE | READ "WORSE THAN APARTHEID" | READ "GET CARTER"

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