" You and I both know the powerful influence of AIPAC, which is not designed to promote peace... their purpose in life is to protect and defend the policies of the Israeli government and to make sure those policies are approved in the U.S. and in our Congress ~ and they're very effective at it: " Carter interview / Newsweek Periscope / 12/18/06

Jimmy Carter's new book Palestine: PEACE NOT APARTHEID is an intentioned effort by former President Carter to rightfully highlight the ongoing injustice of Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine ~ which many, including myself, feel is the long festering root cause of the current middle east conflict.

When asked by Newsweek if Apartheid was an accurate description of what's going on in Palestine ~ Carter replied " I would say that the plight of the Palestinians now ~ the confiscation of their land, that they're being suppressed completely against voicing their disapproval of what's happening, the building of the wall that intrudes deep within their territory, the complete separation of Israelis from the Palestinians ~ all of those things are in many ways worse than some of the aspects of Apartheid in South Africa. No one can go there and visit the different cities in Palestine without agreeing with what I have said ."

Say or think what you want about Jimmy Carter ~ but he is a proven man of peace and one of the few, if only, statesmen who is courageous enough to stand up to Israel's blatant disregard of Palestinian human rights as well as condemn it's Influence lobby AIPAC.

Carter has the Peace bit in his mouth and already Colleges are being pressured to not let him speak as seen in this four minute interview on C-span.

The new Congress must remind Israel's militant right wing that their agenda is not necessarily America's agenda ~ or we'll soon be drawn into a preemptive Israeli strike and war with Iran.

President Carter talks about AIPAC and Israel on C-SPAN ( Four minutes )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBJgaBe5NgM


Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2006/12/15.html