Palestine Peace Not Apartheid - Jimmy Carter

Palestine Peace Not Apartheid

By Jimmy Carter

  • Release Date: 2006-11-14
  • Genre: Foreign Policy & International Relations
Score: 4
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From 29 Ratings

Description

Following his #1 New York Times bestseller, Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine.

President Carter, who was able to negotiate peace between Israel and Egypt, has remained deeply involved in Middle East affairs since leaving the White House. He has stayed in touch with the major players from all sides in the conflict and has made numerous trips to the Holy Land, most recently as an observer in the Palestinian elections of 2005 and 2006.

In this book, President Carter shares his intimate knowledge of the history of the Middle East and his personal experiences with the principal actors, and he addresses sensitive political issues many American officials avoid. Pulling no punches, Carter prescribes steps that must be taken for the two states to share the Holy Land without a system of apartheid or the constant fear of terrorism.

The general parameters of a long-term, two-state agreement are well known, the president writes. There will be no substantive and permanent peace for any peoples in this troubled region as long as Israel is violating key UN resolutions, official American policy, and the international “road map” for peace by occupying Arab lands and oppressing the Palestinians. Except for mutually agreeable negotiated modifications, Israel’s official pre-1967 borders must be honored. As were all previous administrations since the founding of Israel, US government leaders must be in the forefront of achieving this long-delayed goal of a just agreement that both sides can honor.

Palestine Peace Not Apartheid is a challenging, provocative, and courageous book.

Reviews

  • For any American who wants to understand the Mideast conflict

    5
    By Flare48
    Clear, informative, easy to read, which is helpful with this anciently difficult conflict between Israeli Jews and those with whom, like it or not, they have always shared the land. This is the journey of an Israeli partisan who, through his persistent and influential efforts to find peace, learned the very different side of the conflict as well. Americans would do well to read this history of the conflict at the leadership level and to appreciate that there are two equally blessed peoples who deserve Americans' and the world's attention and labor. And then, dig for more information in the European, Arabic and Israeli press, as the conflict receives precious little attention in the American press from the Palestinian perspective.
  • Palestine peace not apathaid

    5
    By fab&co
    It will take great courage for a USA politician to honest and frank regarding the Israeli arrogance of occupying, suppressing, demolition of homes and overall terrorizing the rightful people of Palestine. At the end though the American people will pay the price. The Arab on the street does not trust any american, why?
  • Finishing What He Started

    5
    By Rosa Hill
    Hoping to rekindle the spark of Camp David, President Carter outlines the choices for the Israeli people and where current policies have gone wrong.
  • Misleading !

    1
    By Calipso1
    numerous false and knowingly misleading statements intended to promote the author’s agenda of anti-Israel propaganda.