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Correcting Carter

4. If Carter's words are taken to
legitimize violence by those bent on
using violence, then all Carter has
his week's issue: Is Carter,
done is instigate and condone violence
with his use of diction/syn-
by suggesting it continue until Israel
tax, condoning Palestinian
meets certain criteria, themselves
violence and the killing of Israelis?
imprecisely delivered.
What Carter says: "It is impera-
Conclusion: Ambiguity in dip-
tive that the general Arab community
lomatic documents (and Carter
and all significant Palestinian groups
professes that he means for
make it clear that they
this book to open dialogue
will end the suicide
between the two sides)
bombings and other
causes at least anxiety.
acts of terrorism when
Throughout the aforemen-
international laws
tioned sentence, Carter
and the ultimate goals
offers either amorphous
of the Roadmap for
definitions or intentional
Peace are accepted by
ambiguities. In each of the
Israel." (Page 213, italics
unclear phrases, he leaves
added)
open for interpretation the
Implications:
best or worst scenarios.
Carter's diction/syntax
At worst, he is advocating
Kenneth W.
in this sentence pro-
continued violence against
Specia
duces the following
Israel (Israeli Arabs and
Comment
problems:
Jews alike) and a return to
1.Because of his
the 1949 armistice lines as a
use of "when," Carter
precondition for peace negotiations. If
seems to advise that it is legitimate
that is what he is advocating, how does
for anyone to engage in terrorism and
suicide bombings against Israelis until he envision the map of Israel and any
future Palestinian state? Does it look
international laws and the ultimate
like the 1947 partition plan
goals of the "road
or the 1949 armistice lines,
map" are accepted by
Israel's borders until June
Israel. Only then would
1967?
violence be impermis-
Finally, Carter's syntax
sible?
suggests that he sanctions
2.What constitutes
violence against Israelis
acceptance" by Israel?
— the killing of Jews.
Which international
I have never heard Carter
laws does Carter
utter an anti-Semitic epi-
believe that Israel has
PEACE NOT thet, and I never encoun-
not accepted? Does
APARTHEID
tered any anti-Semitism in
he mean-to imply that
the workplace during my
Israel must accept any
JIMMY CARTER
years at the Carter Center.
or some or all U.N.
However, from virtually the
resolutions dealing
day he left the White House in 1981,
with the Palestinian question, and/or
Carter has vigorously opposed Israeli
any or all other international rulings,
policy toward the Palestinians as well
such as those of the International
as Israeli settlement policy.
Court of Justice at the Hague or the
The published reCord is replete
Geneva Conventions? If he means U.N.
with his angry verbal assaults against
Resolutions 181, 194 and 465, then he
Israeli policies. He was frequently
is demanding that Israel return to the
criticized in the United States and
pre-June 1967 boundaries.
in Israel for not being evenhanded
3. What constitutes a "significant
in his assignment of blame for the
group"? Are less "significant" groups
stagnation of negotiations; Israelis as
justified in committing acts of ter-
politically apart as Yossi Beilin and Eli
rorism? Is a group like Islamic Jihad,
Rubenstein admonished Carter, in per-
which is not significant in number,
son and in my presence, for his one-
considered significant, according to
sided attacks against Israeli policy.
Carter's definition? How about Fatah,
Carter's sanctioning of violence
now less significant as a result of
Hamas' domination in the Palestinian
Legislative Council?
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