One of my Jewish friends just emailed me, absolutely freaking out about some book Jimmy Carter wrote. Something about calling Israel "Afrikaaners". I wasn't entirely clear on this, the email was barely legible.
So I looked it up, Every news article I saw talked about how controversial his book was, while avoiding saying what he actually wrote. In fact, the only thing I could gather about the book was the title. It seemed like it was a bit inflammatory, but I didn't think the title alone was the reason fourteen advisors resigned from the Carter Center.
In the end, I found some extensive reviews of the book on Amazon.com, which cleared things up quite a bit. While it seems a bit like our fomer president has a somewhat one sided view of things (I'll still have to pick it up at some point), it seems like everyone in the political community is overreacting. Again.
Also interesting to look at the tags it recieved on Amazon.
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carter (38), palestine (33), israel (31), peace (28), human rights (25), apartheid (7), propaganda (7), zionism (5), anti-semite (4), anti-semitism (4), anti-zionism (4), antisemitism (4), courage (4), excellent (3), false (3)
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On a similar note, checking up on the book did allow me to find
this freak's website, which is almost as amusing as godhatesfags.com.
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