Here are two more appropriately caustic reviews of Jimmy Carter's viciously anti-semitic and clueless new book, from Jacob Laksin at the conservative FrontPage Magazine, and the liberal Michael Kinsley. Apparently, Carter is a uniter, not a divider.

[Update at noon]

Rich Lowry writes about our creepy former president:

Carter argues that more people would see the Middle East his way if it weren’t for the nefarious influence of the pro-Israel American-Israel Political Action Committee. He apparently believes that if only the Palestinian Authority had better lobbyists, then members of Congress would flock to the cause of this chaotic, corrupt, terrorist-supporting excuse for a governmental entity.

Incredibly, given his media presence, Carter thinks that he is being silenced by shadowy forces. He makes this bizarre claim: “My most troubling experience has been the rejection of my offers to speak, for free, about the book on university campuses with high Jewish enrollment.” Does Carter keep track of which schools have lots of Jews? And who does he think is keeping him from speaking at them?

Just as creepy is a passage in the book about Christians in Galilee who “complained to us that their holy sites and culture were not being respected by Israeli authorities — the same complaint heard by Jesus and his disciples almost 2,000 years earlier.” As New Yorker writer Jeffrey Goldberg notes, “There are, of course, no references to ‘Israeli authorities’ in the Christian Bible. Only a man who sees Israel as a lineal descendent of the Pharisees could write such a sentence.”

Carter did spend a lot of time making the Camp David accords work, I suppose Simberg the War-monger hates that.
A permanent war with Egypt would be so much better
for the angry hateful simberg.

I believe Carter's comment was about suruving Samaratins, not Christians, in Galilee.

...angry hateful simberg...

The psychological term for that is "projection," Anonymous Moron. I'm neither angry, or hateful.

Before we call Carter creepy, how many homes did Rand or for that matter I build for the survivors of Katrina? I didn't because it was easier to mouth off on a blog rather then actually doing something caring for those who are hurting. Maybe Rand did and if so hats-off to him. Yeah, I guess Jimmy Carter does lots of creepy things for people who don't have very much. Carter's intentions are genuine and they are for peace. Peace is something that's always on the horizon, something justifying war and talked about but never appreciated when they have it by those who delight in war. Maybe Carter is getting too old to write, and is frustrated by the situation he sees in Palestine, but to call him creepy is plain wrong.

So, because he built a few houses, it's OK for him to plagiarize, lie about Israel, and sell it down the river?

I have to hand it to Offside -- that is an interesting new twist on the "chickenhawk" shriek. Aninnymouse could learn a thing or two.

"Carter did spend a lot of time making the Camp David accords work,"

The one diamond in a steaming heap of turds that was his administration. He is well on the way of securing the title of the worst persidnet of the last 150 years. This will be his place in history, in spite of the left's delusional mythologies projected on the persona of GWB.

Offside: "Carter's intentions are genuine and they are for peace."

Oh well then, if his intentions are good that is all that matters! Never mind the he is a liar and evidently a closet anti-Semite.

Oh well then, if his intentions are good that is all that matters!

Yes, this is a typical "liberal" viewpoint. Doesn't matter how disastrous the actual policies are, as long as the intentions are good. They apparently never learned the old saying about the pavings stones of the road to hell.

So what about those intentions to bring democracy to Iraq?

Sounds like you've laid a few stones in Hell, Simberg.

I would expect that even an anonymous moron would understand that, at the moment at least, Iraq has somewhat of a functioning democracy. Thus so far the intentions have been backed up by deeds.

Cecil

Functioning democracy in Iraq?

You know they had a democracy in vietnam during the american war, too.

Please, drive a truck or two in baghdad and then tell me
how well it's functioning.

As for Carter, his peace accords have held for over 30 years
for egypt and Israel, He probably knows what he's
talking about in the region.

The neo-cons want permanent war over there,
and the armchair brigade is cheering this on.
Meanwhile the american public is over with this war.