Dear friends:

It is sad that a former President could write a book so filled with error and anti-Semitic prejudice.  But Jimmy Carter's new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, does just that. 

See Alan M. Dershowitz's scathing, comprehensive review at http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25653

I am no fan of Dershowitz, but he nails it this time.

FrontPage Magazine senior editor Jacob Laskin is also greatly critical of Carter, and writes: “Of all the critics of Carter’s book, the most unlikely may be Kenneth Stein. A professor of Israeli Studies at Emory University and the first executive director of the university’s Carter Center -- founded by and named for the former president -- Stein not only accompanied Carter on diplomatic trips to the Middle East but also helped him co-author a book, The Blood of Abraham (1984). But last week Stein resigned from his position at the center and issued a devastating resignation letter in which he described Carter, in so many words, as an incompetent, a liar, and a fraud.
 
Of Carter’s book, whose title he described as “too inflammatory to even print,” Stein said that it was “replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments.” More troubling than Carter’s prosecutorial and tendentious attacks on Israel, Stein noted, were his outright misrepresentations. In particular, Stein called attention to “meetings where I was the third person in the room, and my notes of those meetings show little similarity to points claimed in the book.”
 
I always thought Carter was a bumbling buffoon, but now he has proven himself to be a devious, anti-Semite buffoon.

Jim