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December 21 ® 2006
F
or Jimmy Carter, a meeting
with a group of Phoenix-area
rabbis was the high point of
his tour to promote Palestine: Peace
Not Apartheid, a new book in which
the former U.S. president blames Israel
for the absence of Mideast peace.
For members of the Phoenix Board
of Rabbis' executive committee, who
hoped a face-to-face meeting could
help repair Carter's relationship with
the Jewish community, the Dec. 12
encounter was a disappointment.
"As a Jewish community, we have
had a great deal of respect
over the years for the
human-rights work you
have done and your com-
mitment to the peace pro-
cess," said Rabbi Andrew
Straus in describing the
group's message to Carter.
"But your new book has
hurt our relationship with you and
hurt our understanding of who you are
and what you're trying to do."
The meeting, which lasted more
than an hour, was described as cordial
and respectful; but the rabbis left dis-
heartened.
Carter claimed to be unaware of
significant political differences within
the American Jewish community with
regard to Israel and refused to speak
out on behalf of Israeli soldiers being
held captive in the Gaza Strip and
Lebanon.
He also told the rabbis that his use
of the incendiary term "apartheid" was
meant to apply only to the West Bank
and Gaza and not to Israel itself, which
he described as a vibrant democracy.
The rabbis professed to be "shocked"
by the revelation, noting that the book
did not convey any sense of admira-
tion for Israel. Carter promised he
would be more explicit in drawing
that distinction in subsequent media
interviews.
Carter also expressed his willing-
ness to condemn Palestinian terrorism
more vociferously and to consider trav-
eling to Israel with the rabbis, provided
they also agreed to visit locations he
deemed significant for his understand-
ing of the conflict. The meeting con-
cluded with participants joining hands
in prayer.
In a subsequent phone call with
Carter, Rabbi Straus asked the former
president if he saw the Palestinians as
bearing any measure of culpability for
the breakdown in the peace process.
"He couldn't see any failures," Rabbi
Straus said.
"Somehow or another, he has
accepted the Palestinian vision and
understanding of the Israeli-Arab dia-
logue and is not able to be critical of
the Palestinian community," said Rabbi
Straus, of Temple Emanuel of Tempe,
Ariz. "You read through the book and
there's almost no criticism
of Palestinians, almost no
mention of terrorism!'
Released last month,
Carter's book has come
under intense criticism
from Jewish organizations
who have blasted every-
thing from its title — which
evokes comparisons to apartheid
South Africa — to its scholarship,
which has been described as shoddy
and riddled with errors.
The Anti-Defamation League, in
particular, has taken Carter to task,
sponsoring an ad campaign in major
American publications and devoting
a section of its Web site to criticizing
the book.
Criticism of Carter has not been
restricted to Jewish organizations.
Writing in the Washington Post,
Michael Kinsley called the apartheid
analogy "a foolish and unfair compari-
son, unworthy of the man who won
— and deserved — the Nobel Peace
Prize."
The chorus of outrage was height-
ened by the resignation of Kenneth
Stein from his post as a fellow of the
Cat ter Center, the former president's
human rights foundation based at
Emory University in Atlanta.
In his letter, which ended a 23-year
association with the center, Stein
claims the book is "replete with fac-
tual errors, copied materials not cited,
superficialities, glaring omissions, and
simply invented segments!'