Posted by
Dawnsblood on Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:19:58 PM
Has the book Carter wrote
done him any favors whatsoever? It seems every time I look at the news, it is teeing another of his friends off.
Fourteen members of an advisory board to Jimmy Carter's human rights
organization resigned on Thursday to protest his new book, which has
been attacked as unfairly critical of Israel and riddled with
inaccuracies.
The resignations at the Carter Center are the latest backlash
against the former president's book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."
The book has also drawn fire from Jewish groups and fellow Democrats,
and led to the resignation last month of Kenneth Stein, a center fellow
and a longtime Carter adviser.
"You have clearly abandoned your historic role of broker in favor of
becoming an advocate for one side," the departing members of the
center's Board of Councilors told Carter in their letter of resignation.