Get Carter! Iran, Too!

They should have thrown it in the river
Middle East: Gulf widens between peace and apartheid
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Jan 18, 2006

Instead, the Israel lobby has made a mess of its war on Carter, says

Alexander Cockburn

Suppose the movers and shakers in the Israel lobby in the US - Abe Foxman, Alan Dershowitz and the rest of the crew - had simply decided to leave Jimmy Carter's Peace Not Apartheid alone. How long before the book and all its aspersions on Israel's treatment of Palestinians would have been gathering dust on the remainder shelves?

Suppose even that Dershowitz had rounded up some interns, and simply sallied forth from the Harvard Law School to buy up every copy of Carter's book and hurl each one into the Charles river. Would not that have been a more successful suppressor than the attempted blitzkrieg strategy they did adopt?

Of course it would. For weeks now the lobby has hurled its legions into battle against Carter. The Anti-Defamation League has taken out ads. The lobby's allies in the press have hurled their rotten tomatoes.

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