Yesterday, fourteen advisers resigned from the Carter Center in protest over former President Jimmy Carters new book on the Israel-Palestinian conflict:
ATLANTA, Jan. 11 ? Fourteen of the city?s business and civic leaders resigned from the Carter Center?s advisory board on Thursday to protest former President Jimmy Carter?s recent criticisms of Israel and American Jewish political power.
Their joint letter of resignation denounced Mr. Carter?s best-selling book, ?Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,? for its criticisms of Israel?s treatment of Palestinians. The letter also took issue with comments Mr. Carter has made suggesting that Israel?s supporters in the United States are using their power to stifle debate on the issue.
?It seems you have turned to a world of advocacy, even malicious advocacy,? the letter said. ?We can no longer endorse your strident and uncompromising position. This is not the Carter Center or the Jimmy Carter we came to respect and support.?
The 14 who resigned were members of the center?s board of councilors, a group of more than 200 local leaders who act as ambassadors and fund-raisers for the center but do not determine its policy or direct its operations.
Among the letter signers were Michael Coles, the chief executive of the Caribou Coffee Company; William B. Schwartz Jr., the ambassador to the Bahamas during Mr. Carter?s presidency; Liane Levetan, a former chief executive of DeKalb County, Ga.; and S. Stephen Selig III, who served as national finance chairman for the Carter-Mondale Presidential Committee.
As time goes on Carter is proving more and more just why he was the worst President in American history.?
January 12th, 2007 at 9:10 am
Re: your title
With whom did he have any?
January 12th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Aw, James, you beat me to the punch.