Carter on Meet The Press
With this book, Jimmy Carter has done more to advance honest discussion of Israel Palestine than anything I can remember. As he notes himself in this interview, as in several others, all discussion and debate on this issue is stifled by intimidation.
…but because of powerful political, economic, and religious forces in the United States, Israeli government decisions are rarely questioned or condemned. Voices from Jerusalem dominate in our media, and most American citizens are unaware of circumstances in the occupied territories.
Tim Russert actually goes on to name the Israel or Jewish lobby one of the factors and Carter agrees.
From Meet the Press, Sunday Dec. 3, 2006
Unfortunately, the issue of equality between Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel keep coming up and President Carter is either unaware of the apartheid within Israel itself or just doesn’t want to address that issue. I suspect that he does not want to cloud the more pressing issues of ongoing Israeli abuse of Palestinians which continues only with full cooperation and support from the US.
I am currently working on a discussion of this that I will post later. IN the meantime enjoy the clip if you missed Meet The Press today