Carter's Bomb

President Carter has been faced an overwhelming amount of media and social attacks since releaseing his book "Palestine Peace not Aparthied". Even the wording of the "newscasts" take aim to assassinate the character of a nobel-prize winning peace President who's entire life has been dedicated to serving the good of mankind.

So why is it that we do not hear anyone taking the media to task for yet another round of 'assassinate the good guy'? Just like many before him, anyone dropping the "Israel-Bomb" can expect a fierce and relentless attack on their character, credibility and history. Why do you suppose that is?

I've done some research and I have to say - with all respect - that opinions, rooted in bias, born of indoctrination, do not constitute fact and should not be permitted to form consensus. I'm not here to challenge anyone's faith, but I think a good examination of the melding of emotions and doctrine over reason is in order.

Are we reluctantly taking our position because our greater faith community is steering us there? Is it that we are too close to the teachings and not the facts? I don't know, nor am I in a position to make general assertions.

But I pulled together a very good explanation/response by editing a recent story from CNN and adding pieces of a great debate on the Iranian threat by two prominent Jewish scholars- albeit they are polarized within the Jewish community.... like most everything in political debate. (theres a saying you can put three Jews in a room to talk politics and you'll get seven opinions)

Pulitzer Prize winning author Seymour Hersh and retired US chief weapons inspector in Iraq 91-98, Marine Major, Scott Ritter had an exchange that I felt really clarified the facts and indirectly nailed the Carter firestorm. You tell me.



Near as I could tell, the 20 advisers that resigned were of a group of 200, and were all Jewish. As is detailed in my video above, the very mention of anything remotely linkable to something anti-Semitic, like the word apartheid, causes a Pavlovian response to seek distance from the controversy. The twenty responded on cue and the greater community has as well — bringing many of us reluctantly along.

And it is that reluctance that I propose, is our disconnect to the conditioned response, that shows us a path to greater understanding and a true sense of global community.

I agree, as did Carter that the statement the suicide bombing would continue til the occupation and aggression ends, was inappropriate and should be removed. I could find no other articles that falsely claimed fact to here say.

This is Jimmy Carter's book with his reflections based on being in the first-person spotlight in a world geo-political policymaking role. If anyone has a right to write His-Story, Carter certainly does. And it doesn't need to reflect the generally accepted History... that too many of us blindly subscribe to.

Have you read Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" because it clearly demonstrates the fulfillment of the ancient African proverb:

"Until Lions have their own Historians, the story of the Hunt will forever favor Man."

Perhaps Carter, Hersh, Ritter and Zinn are trying to share a bit of the Lion's story.