Jimmy (The goober farmer) Carter, writes a book (supposedly) with an idiotic, insulting title to "spark debate" and then instantly refuses to talk about it? Why Do liberals do this?
Former President Carter turned down a request to debate Alan Dershowitz about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying the outspoken Harvard law professor "knows nothing about the situation."
Then how about using this debate to "enlighten him and the rest of us?
Carter, author of a new book advocating "peace not apartheid" in the region, said he will not visit Brandeis University to discuss the book because the university requested he debate Dershowitz.
Who has been requesting the debate?
"I don't want to have a conversation even indirectly with Dershowitz," Carter said in Friday's Boston Globe. "There is no need ... to debate somebody who, in my opinion, knows nothing about the situation in Palestine."
Again, this book is opinion.. so prove the case or shut the F*** up!
The school's debate request, Carter said, is proof that many in the United States are unwilling to hear an alternative view on the nation's most taboo foreign policy issue, Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory.
Or it was you chance to prove the case of your book
Carter brokered the 1978 Camp David peace accord between Israel and Egypt and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. He said the goal of his book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," is to provoke dialogue and action.
"There is no debate in America about anything that would be critical of Israel," he said.
The reference to "apartheid," the word for South Africa's former system of state-sanctioned racial segregation, has angered some rabbis because it appears to equate that system with the treatment of Palestinians.
This could be because the Apartheid term is simply inflammatory terms used to slander Israel?
"President Carter said he wrote the book because he wanted to encourage more debate; then why won't he debate?" said Dershowitz, a vocal First Amendment advocate who has worked for O.J. Simpson and other high-profile clients.
That's NEVER what Carter wanted, thats what he SAID he wanted! There's a difference in the liberal mind.
Brandeis was founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian university under the sponsorship of the American Jewish community. Carter said he initially was interested in going there.
"I thought it would be a good idea to go to a campus that had a lot of Jewish students and get a lot questions," he said. But then the initial proposal evolved into a plan for a debate.
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THIS is why Carter failed as a President and as a leader. He talks tough but when its time for the metal to hit the meat.. he runs the hell away pointing at the other guy crying like baby... SAY WHAT YOU MEAN AND MEAN WHAT YOU SAY! If you write a book claiming that it is to foster discussion and debate and THEN run from the debates.. why should anyone take this as anything but more Anti-Jew-Pro Terror rhetoric from the same liberal mouthpiece?