Why Socialists Must Side with Islamic Fundamentalism - The Jimmy Carter Case By Peter Fruchter

Jimmy Carter seems like a gentle man. Gentle as a wheeze. But the response to his recent “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid” book hasn’t been. It’s been anything but gentle. It’s been outrage. Some now say he’s anti-semitic. Which is unwarranted, and worse – irrelevant. The issues contested concern Israel – and Islamic fundamentalism. Not Judaism. Not the Jewish – or Masonic or Templar or Protestant – conspiracy. Not any more. Since the creation of Israel, it’s what goes on in the Middle-East getting voted most likely to enflame Armageddon.

Carter is wrong, of course. That’s clear the moment we concede Israel’s entitled to defend herself. Right? However defined, apartheid is offensive – and thereby can’t conceivably be practiced in self-defence.


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