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This article originally appeared in the <http://www.nysun.com/> NY Sun.

Carter's Distorted World
by Alan M. Dershowitz
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid is so biased that it inevitably raises the
question of what would motivate Jimmy Carter to write such an indecent book.

Sometimes you really can tell a book by its cover. President Jimmy Carter's
decision to title his new anti-Israel screed "Palestine: Peace Not
Apartheid" (Simon & Schuster, 288 pages, $27) tells it all. His use of the
loaded word "apartheid," suggesting an analogy to the hated policies of
South Africa, is especially outrageous, considering his acknowledgment
buried near the end of his shallow and superficial book that what is going
on in Israel today "is unlike that in South Africa -- not racism, but the
acquisition of land." Nor does he explain that Israel's motivation for
holding on to land it captured in a defensive war is the prevention of
terrorism. Israel has tried, on several occasions, to exchange land for
peace, and what it got instead was terrorism, rockets, and kidnappings
launched from the returned land.
In fact, Palestinian-Arab terrorism is virtually missing from Mr. Carter's
entire historical account, which blames nearly everything on Israel and
almost nothing on the Palestinians. Incredibly, he asserts that the initial
violence in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict occurred when "Jewish
militants" attacked Arabs in 1939. The long history of Palestinian terrorism
against Jews -- which began in 1929, when the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem
ordered the slaughter of more than 100 rabbis, students, and non-Zionist
Sephardim whose families had lived in Hebron and other ancient Jewish cities
for millennia -- was motivated by religious bigotry. The Jews responded to
this racist violence by establishing a defense force. There is no mention of
the long history of Palestinian terrorism before the occupation, or of the
Munich massacre and others inspired by Yasser Arafat. There is not even a
reference to the Karine A, the boatful of terrorist weapons ordered by
Arafat in January 2002.
Mr. Carter's book is so filled with simple mistakes of fact and deliberate
omissions that were it a brief filed in a court of law, it would be struck
and its author sanctioned for misleading the court. Mr. Carter too is guilty
of misleading the court of public opinion. A mere listing of all of Mr.
Carter's mistakes and omissions would fill a volume the size of his book.
Here are just a few of the most egregious:
Mr. Carter emphasizes that "Christian and Muslim Arabs had continued to live
in this same land since Roman times," but he ignores the fact that Jews have
lived in Hebron, Tzfat, Jerusalem, and other cities for even longer. Nor
does he discuss the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Arab
countries since 1948.
Mr. Carter repeatedly claims that the Palestinian Arabs have long supported
a two-state solution and the Israelis have always opposed it. Yet he makes
no mention of the fact that in 1938 the Peel Commission proposed a two-state
solution, with Israel receiving a mere sliver of its ancient homeland and
the Palestinians receiving the bulk of the land. The Jews accepted and the
Palestinians rejected this proposal because Arab leaders cared more about
there being no Jewish state on Muslim holy land than about having a
Palestinian state of their own.
He barely mentions Israel's acceptance, and the Palestinian rejection, of
the United Nation's division of the mandate in 1948.
He claims that in 1967 Israel launched a preemptive attack against Jordan.
The fact is that Jordan attacked Israel first, Israel tried desperately to
persuade Jordan to remain out of the war, and Israel counterattacked after
the Jordanian army surrounded Jerusalem, firing missiles into the center of
the city. Only then did Israel capture the West Bank, which it was willing
to return in exchange for peace and recognition from Jordan.
Mr. Carter repeatedly mentions Security Council Resolution 242, which called
for return of captured territories in exchange for peace, recognition, and
secure boundaries, but he ignores that Israel accepted and all the Arab
nations and the Palestinians rejected this resolution. The Arabs met in
Khartum and issued their three famous "no's": "No peace, no recognition, no
negotiation." But you wouldn't know that from reading the history according
to Mr. Carter.
Mr. Carter faults Israel for its "air strike that destroyed an Iraqi nuclear
reactor" without mentioning that Iraq had threatened to attack Israel with
nuclear weapons if Iraq succeeded in building a bomb.
Mr. Carter faults Israel for its administration of Christian and Muslim
religious sites, when in fact Israel is scrupulous about ensuring those of
every religion the right to worship as they please -- consistent, of course,
with security needs. He fails to mention that between 1948 and 1967, when
Jordan occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the Hashemites destroyed
and desecrated Jewish religious sites and prevented Jews from praying at the
Western Wall. He also never mentions Egypt's brutal occupation of Gaza
between 1949 and 1967.
Mr. Carter blames Israel, and exonerates Arafat, for the Palestinian refusal
to accept statehood on 95% of the West Bank and all of Gaza pursuant to the
Clinton-Barak offers at Camp David and Taba in 2000-2001. He accepts the
Palestinian revisionist history, rejects the eyewitness accounts of
President Clinton and Dennis Ross, and ignores Saudi Prince Bandar's
accusation that Arafat's rejection of the proposal was "a crime" and that
Arafat's account "was not truthful" -- except, apparently, to Mr. Carter.
The fact that Mr. Carter chooses to believe Arafat over Mr. Clinton speaks
volumes.
Mr. Carter's description of the recent Lebanon war is misleading. He begins
by asserting that Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers. "Captured"
suggests a military apprehension subject to the usual prisoner of war
status. The soldiers were kidnapped, and have not been heard from -- not
even a sign of life. The rocket attacks that preceded Israel's invasion are
largely ignored, as is the fact that Hezbollah fired its rockets from
civilian population centers.
Mr. Carter gives virtually no credit to Israel's superb legal system,
falsely asserting (without any citation) that "confessions extracted through
torture are admissible in Israeli courts," that prisoners are "executed,"
and that the "accusers" act "as judges." Even Israel's most severe critics
acknowledge the fairness of the Israeli Supreme Court, but not Mr. Carter.
Mr. Carter even blames Israel for the "exodus of Christians from the Holy
Land," totally ignoring the Islamization of the area by Hamas and the
comparable exodus of Christian Arabs from Lebanon as a result of the
increasing influence of Hezbollah and the repeated assassination of
Christian leaders by Syria.
Mr. Carter also blames every American administration but his own for the
Mideast stalemate with particular emphasis on "a submissive White House and
U.S. Congress in recent years." He employs hyperbole and overstatement when
he says that "dialogue on controversial issues is a privilege to be extended
only as a reward for subservient behavior and withheld from those who reject
U.S. demands." He confuses terrorist states, such as Iran and Syria, to
which we do not extend dialogue, with states with whom we strongly disagree,
such as France and China, but with whom we have constant dialogue.
And it's not just the facts; it's the tone as well. It's obvious that Mr.
Carter just doesn't like Israel or Israelis. He lectured Golda Meir on
Israeli's "secular" nature, warning her that "Israel was punished whenever
its leaders turned away from devout worship of God." He admits that he did
not like Menachem Begin. He has little good to say about any Israelis --
except those few who agree with him. But he apparently got along swimmingly
with the very secular Syrian mass-murderer Hafez al-Assad. Mr. Carter and
his wife Rosalynn also had a fine time with the equally secular Arafat -- a
man who has the blood of hundreds of Americans and Israelis on his hands:
Rosalynn and I met with Yasir Arafat in Gaza City, where he was staying with
his wife, Suha, and their little daughter. The baby, dressed in a beautiful
pink suit, came readily to sit on my lap, where I practiced the same wiles
that had been successful with our children and grandchildren. A lot of
photographs were taken, and then the photographers asked that Arafat hold
his daughter for a while. When he took her, the child screamed loudly and
reached out her hands to me, bringing jovial admonitions to the presidential
candidate to stay at home enough to become acquainted with is own child.
There is something quite disturbing about these pictures.
"Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" is so biased that it inevitably raises the
question of what would motivate a decent man like Jimmy Carter to write such
an indecent book. Whatever Mr. Carter's motives may be, his authorship of
this ahistorical, one-sided, and simplistic brief against Israel forever
disqualifies him from playing any positive role in fairly resolving the
conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. That is a tragedy because the
Carter Center, which has done much good in the world, could have been a
force for peace if Jimmy Carter were as generous in spirit to the Israelis
as he is to the Palestinians.

Author Biography:
Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter professor of law at Harvard Law
School and author of
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/047146502X/friendsofaishhat/> The
Case for Israel.

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font-weight:bold'> is so biased that it inevitably raises the question =
of what
would motivate Jimmy Carter to write such an indecent =
book.</span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>

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Sometimes
you really can tell a book by its cover. President Jimmy Carter's =
decision to
title his new anti-Israel screed &quot;<st1:City w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Palestine</st1:place></st1:City>:
Peace Not Apartheid&quot; (Simon &amp; Schuster, 288 pages, $27) tells =
it all.
His use of the loaded word &quot;apartheid,&quot; suggesting an analogy =
to the
hated policies of <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on">South =
Africa</st1:country-region>,
is especially outrageous, considering his acknowledgment buried near the =
end of
his shallow and superficial book that what is going on in =
<st1:country-region
w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:country-region> today &quot;is unlike that in =
<st1:country-region
w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">South =
Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region> --
not racism, but the acquisition of land.&quot; Nor does he explain that =
<st1:country-region
w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
motivation for holding on to land it captured in a defensive war is the
prevention of terrorism. <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>
has tried, on several occasions, to exchange land for peace, and what it =
got
instead was terrorism, rockets, and kidnappings launched from the =
returned
land.<o:p></o:p>

In fact,
Palestinian-Arab terrorism is virtually missing from Mr. Carter's entire
historical account, which blames nearly everything on =
<st1:country-region
w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> and
almost nothing on the Palestinians. Incredibly, he asserts that the =
initial
violence in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict occurred when &quot;Jewish
militants&quot; attacked Arabs in 1939. The long history of Palestinian =
terrorism
against Jews -- which began in 1929, when the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem =
ordered
the slaughter of more than 100 rabbis, students, and non-Zionist =
Sephardim
whose families had lived in <st1:City w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Hebron</st1:place></st1:City>
and other ancient Jewish cities for millennia -- was motivated by =
religious
bigotry. The Jews responded to this racist violence by establishing a =
defense
force. There is no mention of the long history of Palestinian terrorism =
before
the occupation, or of the <st1:City w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Munich</st1:place></st1:City>
massacre and others inspired by Yasser Arafat. There is not even a =
reference to
the Karine A, the boatful of terrorist weapons ordered by Arafat in =
January
2002.<o:p></o:p>

Mr. Carter's
book is so filled with simple mistakes of fact and deliberate omissions =
that
were it a brief filed in a court of law, it would be struck and its =
author
sanctioned for misleading the court. Mr. Carter too is guilty of =
misleading the
court of public opinion. A mere listing of all of Mr. Carter's mistakes =
and
omissions would fill a volume the size of his book. Here are just a few =
of the
most egregious:<o:p></o:p>

Mr. Carter
emphasizes that &quot;Christian and Muslim Arabs had continued to live =
in this
same land since Roman times,&quot; but he ignores the fact that Jews =
have lived
in <st1:City w:st=3D"on">Hebron</st1:City>, Tzfat, <st1:City =
w:st=3D"on"><st1:place
 w:st=3D"on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:City>, and other cities for even =
longer.
Nor does he discuss the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Jews from =
Arab
countries since 1948.<o:p></o:p>

Mr. Carter
repeatedly claims that the Palestinian Arabs have long supported a =
two-state
solution and the Israelis have always opposed it. Yet he makes no =
mention of
the fact that in 1938 the Peel Commission proposed a two-state solution, =
with <st1:country-region
w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>
receiving a mere sliver of its ancient homeland and the Palestinians =
receiving
the bulk of the land. The Jews accepted and the Palestinians rejected =
this
proposal because Arab leaders cared more about there being no Jewish =
state on
Muslim holy land than about having a Palestinian state of their =
own.<o:p></o:p>

<p align=3Dcenter =
style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:center'><span =
class=3Dapple-style-span><font
size=3D3 face=3DTimes><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'>He barely
mentions <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
acceptance, and the Palestinian rejection, of the United Nation's =
division of
the mandate in 1948.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>

He claims
that in 1967 <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:country-region> =
launched
a preemptive attack against <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Jordan</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
The fact is that <st1:country-region =
w:st=3D"on">Jordan</st1:country-region>
attacked <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:country-region> =
first, <st1:country-region
w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:country-region> tried desperately to persuade =
<st1:country-region
w:st=3D"on">Jordan</st1:country-region> to remain out of the war, and =
<st1:country-region
w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:country-region> counterattacked after the =
Jordanian army
surrounded <st1:City w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:City>,
firing missiles into the center of the city. Only then did =
<st1:country-region
w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:country-region> capture the West Bank, which it =
was
willing to return in exchange for peace and recognition from =
<st1:country-region
w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Jordan</st1:place></st1:country-region>.=
<o:p></o:p>

Mr. Carter
repeatedly mentions Security Council Resolution 242, which called for =
return of
captured territories in exchange for peace, recognition, and secure =
boundaries,
but he ignores that <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>
accepted and all the Arab nations and the Palestinians rejected this
resolution. The Arabs met in Khartum and issued their three famous =
&quot;no's&quot;:
&quot;No peace, no recognition, no negotiation.&quot; But you wouldn't =
know
that from reading the history according to Mr. =
Carter.<o:p></o:p>

Mr. Carter
faults <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:country-region> for =
its
&quot;air strike that destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor&quot; without
mentioning that <st1:country-region =
w:st=3D"on">Iraq</st1:country-region> had
threatened to attack <st1:country-region =
w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:country-region>
with nuclear weapons if <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>
succeeded in building a bomb.<o:p></o:p>

Mr. Carter
faults <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:country-region> for =
its
administration of Christian and Muslim religious sites, when in fact =
<st1:country-region
w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> is
scrupulous about ensuring those of every religion the right to worship =
as they
please -- consistent, of course, with security needs. He fails to =
mention that
between 1948 and 1967, when <st1:country-region =
w:st=3D"on">Jordan</st1:country-region>
occupied the West Bank and <st1:place w:st=3D"on">East =
Jerusalem</st1:place>, the
Hashemites destroyed and desecrated Jewish religious sites and prevented =
Jews
from praying at the Western Wall. He also never mentions =
<st1:country-region
w:st=3D"on">Egypt</st1:country-region>'s brutal occupation of <st1:City =
w:st=3D"on"><st1:place
 w:st=3D"on">Gaza</st1:place></st1:City> between 1949 and =
1967.<o:p></o:p>

Mr. Carter
blames <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:country-region>, and
exonerates Arafat, for the Palestinian refusal to accept statehood on =
95% of
the West Bank and all of <st1:City w:st=3D"on">Gaza</st1:City> pursuant =
to the
Clinton-Barak offers at <st1:place w:st=3D"on">Camp David</st1:place> =
and Taba in
2000-2001. He accepts the Palestinian revisionist history, rejects the =
eyewitness
accounts of President Clinton and Dennis Ross, and ignores Saudi Prince
Bandar's accusation that Arafat's rejection of the proposal was &quot;a
crime&quot; and that Arafat's account &quot;was not truthful&quot; -- =
except,
apparently, to Mr. Carter. The fact that Mr. Carter chooses to believe =
Arafat
over Mr. Clinton speaks volumes.<o:p></o:p>

Mr. Carter's
description of the recent <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Lebanon</st1:place></st1:country-region>
war is misleading. He begins by asserting that Hezbollah captured two =
Israeli
soldiers. &quot;Captured&quot; suggests a military apprehension subject =
to the
usual prisoner of war status. The soldiers were kidnapped, and have not =
been
heard from -- not even a sign of life. The rocket attacks that preceded =
<st1:country-region
w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
invasion are largely ignored, as is the fact that Hezbollah fired its =
rockets
from civilian population centers.<o:p></o:p>

Mr. Carter
gives virtually no credit to <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
superb legal system, falsely asserting (without any citation) that
&quot;confessions extracted through torture are admissible in Israeli
courts,&quot; that prisoners are &quot;executed,&quot; and that the =
&quot;accusers&quot;
act &quot;as judges.&quot; Even <st1:country-region =
w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
most severe critics acknowledge the fairness of the Israeli Supreme =
Court, but
not Mr. Carter.<o:p></o:p>

Mr. Carter
even blames Israel for the &quot;exodus of Christians from the Holy =
Land,&quot;
totally ignoring the Islamization of the area by Hamas and the =
comparable
exodus of Christian Arabs from Lebanon as a result of the increasing =
influence
of Hezbollah and the repeated assassination of Christian leaders by =
Syria.<o:p></o:p>

Mr. Carter
also blames every American administration but his own for the <st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Mideast</st1:place>
stalemate with particular emphasis on &quot;a submissive White House and =
U.S.
Congress in recent years.&quot; He employs hyperbole and overstatement =
when he
says that &quot;dialogue on controversial issues is a privilege to be =
extended
only as a reward for subservient behavior and withheld from those who =
reject <st1:country-region
w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
demands.&quot; He confuses terrorist states, such as <st1:country-region =
w:st=3D"on">Iran</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on">Syria</st1:country-region>, to which =
we do
not extend dialogue, with states with whom we strongly disagree, such as =
<st1:country-region
w:st=3D"on">France</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region =
w:st=3D"on"><st1:place
 w:st=3D"on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>, but with whom we =
have
constant dialogue.<o:p></o:p>

And it's not
just the facts; it's the tone as well. It's obvious that Mr. Carter just
doesn't like <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>
or Israelis. He lectured Golda Meir on Israeli's &quot;secular&quot; =
nature,
warning her that &quot;<st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>
was punished whenever its leaders turned away from devout worship of =
God.&quot;
He admits that he did not like Menachem Begin. He has little good to say =
about
any Israelis -- except those few who agree with him. But he apparently =
got
along swimmingly with the very secular Syrian mass-murderer Hafez =
al-Assad. Mr.
Carter and his wife Rosalynn also had a fine time with the equally =
secular
Arafat -- a man who has the blood of hundreds of Americans and Israelis =
on his
hands:<o:p></o:p>

<div>

Rosalynn and I met with Yasir =
Arafat in
Gaza City, where he was staying with his wife, Suha, and their little =
daughter.
The baby, dressed in a beautiful pink suit, came readily to sit on my =
lap,
where I practiced the same wiles that had been successful with our =
children and
grandchildren. A lot of photographs were taken, and then the =
photographers
asked that Arafat hold his daughter for a while. When he took her, the =
child
screamed loudly and reached out her hands to me, bringing jovial =
admonitions to
the presidential candidate to stay at home enough to become acquainted =
with is
own child.<o:p></o:p>

</div>

<p align=3Dcenter =
style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:center'><span =
class=3Dapple-style-span><font
size=3D3 face=3DTimes><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'>There is
something quite disturbing about these =
pictures.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>

&quot;<st1:City
w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">Palestine</st1:place></st1:City>: =
Peace Not
Apartheid&quot; is so biased that it inevitably raises the question of =
what
would motivate a decent man like Jimmy Carter to write such an indecent =
book.
Whatever Mr. Carter's motives may be, his authorship of this =
ahistorical,
one-sided, and simplistic brief against <st1:country-region =
w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:country-region>
forever disqualifies him from playing any positive role in fairly =
resolving the
conflict between <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and the Palestinians. That is a tragedy because the <st1:place =
w:st=3D"on"><st1:PlaceName
 w:st=3D"on">Carter</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName =
w:st=3D"on">Center</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>,
which has done much good in the world, could have been a force for peace =
if
Jimmy Carter were as generous in spirit to the Israelis as he is to the
Palestinians.<o:p></o:p>

<p align=3Dcenter =
style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:center'><span =
class=3Dapple-style-span><b><font
size=3D3 color=3Dblue face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue;font-weight:bold'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></b></span></=
p>

Author =
Biography: 
Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix =
Frankfurter
professor of law at <st1:PlaceName w:st=3D"on">Harvard</st1:PlaceName> =
<st1:PlaceName
w:st=3D"on">Law</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType =
w:st=3D"on">School</st1:PlaceType>
and author of <a
href=3D"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/047146502X/friendsofaishha=
t/">The Case for =
Israel.</a><o:p></o:p>

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size=3D3 face=3DTimes><span =
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