Well, Yes, We Do
"Indeed, if one looks hard enough, you might even find some non-Jews who find the misuse of "apartheid" to be appalling as well." The words written by David Schraub at The Moderate Voice regarding Jimmy Carter's latest weasel words. He's discussing this article from the AP about Jimmy's refusal to debate Alan Dershowitz over the fabricated book Carter just published. The way Carter ducks out of debating is to proclaim that Dershowitz doesn't know anything, therefore is unworthy of Carter's magnificent personage deigning to speak with such a plebeian. Dershowitz's ignorance is probably a bit of a shock to Harvard where Dershowitz has taught for some time. As Schraub writes:
Well, at the moment, there is no debate because Carter refuses to have a debate (didn't Walt & Mearsheimer also refuse requests to debate their thesis as well?). So it's not our fault this time.
My theory is that he won't debate because he knows he'll get crushed. [Crushed harder than The Debate Link is getting crushed by Blue Gal? Shut up.] But that's just me.
Oh and one more line that caught my eye:
The reference to "apartheid," the word for South Africa's former system of state-sanctioned racial segregation, has angered some rabbis because it appears to equate that system with the treatment of Palestinians.
First of all, it doesn't just "seem to", it does — Carter's weak attempts at distinguishing notwithstanding. But more importantly: "some rabbis"? I'll have to check, but I'm reasonably sure I'm not the only non-rabbi who has an issue with President Carter's characterization here. Indeed, if one looks hard enough, you might even find some non-Jews who find the misuse of "apartheid" to be appalling as well.
Gratuitous reference to the Weblog Awards voting aside, Schraub hits Carter hard here. Deservedly. And yes, non-Jews also find Carter's execrable book and title offensive.
Gratuitous reference to the Weblog Awards voting aside, Schraub hits Carter hard here. Deservedly. And yes, non-Jews also find Carter's execrable book and title offensive.
By daveinboca, Saturday, 16 December , 2006 @ 9:37 am
Calling Jimmy Carter a weasal gives that relatively high-class rodent a bad name.
Carter is a liar and a scolding patronizing hypocritical moron. This fraud is therefore beloved in Europe and its offshore cultural province of NYC.
Perhaps cowardly craven sewer rat would be the rodent best characterizing Carter’s long list of character defects and moral deficits.
Dershowitz would surely expose this little plagiarizing map-stealing impostor for what he is—the country’s worst president in the 20th century, although I still regard LBJ as neck-and-neck.