Jimmy Carter Tells Truth about Palestine but Lies about Israel
By Genevieve Cora Fraser
Jimmy Carter tells the truth about the impact of the Israeli Occupation on Palestine in "Palestine: Peace not
Apartheid." In Gaza, Israel is practicing a slow form of genocide where the people are sealed off from the world and
encounter non-stop military assaults, he points out. And the Wall Israel is erecting separates Palestinians from
Palestinians. The Wall steals Palestinian land just as the illegal settlements do, and is creating a prison. But Carter
is far from candid about the crisis in Israel itself, claiming that Arab Israelis enjoy full rights as citizens and that
it is a wonderful and open society.
Sure, Arab Israelis can vote and have a few token representatives in the Knesset, but they do not have full rights as
citizens - or human rights for that matter. In January, for example, Shimon Peres requested the ethnic cleansing of over
40,000 Arab Israelis from their centuries old villages, the Knesset voted for it, and shortly thereafter the bulldozers
arrived. The purpose was to clear out the people to put up luxury condos for Jews-only.
And this summer before the war on Lebanon, Israeli Jews were fighting Jews in riots. The White Ashkenazi Jews didn't
like the Middle Eastern Jews driving on their streets or walking on their sidewalks. Why? Because, according to the
non-Semite Jews, they are religiously superior to Jews of color. And during the war, it was the Arab Israelis who were
killed because Israel had not provided warning sirens or air raid shelters to their communities. Ironically, it was
Hezbollah that warned the Arab villages in Southern Israel that they were about to attack.
If you want the facts - read the Israeli papers as I do. Israel is an extremely racist country as anyone who lives
there, or has spent time there knows. Whether or not they admit it is another story. Yes, Jimmy Carter would have us
believe that Israel behaves one way toward the Palestinian Arabs and in a completely opposite way toward the Arabs in
Israel. No, Mr. President, Israeli racism is consistent inside and outside of Israel for Arabs whether they are Jews or
non-Jewish.
ENDS