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Palestine Peace Not Apartheid [1]

['Julie Bosman']

Date: 2006-12-14

On Tuesday night in Phoenix, after signings and interviews to promote his new book, “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid,” President Jimmy Carter made a hastily arranged visit: an hourlong gathering with a group of rabbis.

“We ended up holding hands and circled in prayer,” Mr. Carter said in a telephone interview from Phoenix, adding that the rabbis requested the meeting to discuss his book.

It was an unusual interruption during an unusually controversial book tour, which began with a few faint complaints last month and has escalated to a full-scale furor, with Mr. Carter being trailed by protesters at book signings, criticized on newspaper op-ed pages and, on the normally sedate “Book TV” program on C-Span2, being called a racist and an anti-Semite by an indignant caller.

Such backlash is triggered by Mr. Carter’s assertions that pro-Israel lobbyists have stifled debate in the United States over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; that Israelis are guilty of human rights abuses in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories; and that the editorial pages of American newspapers rarely present anything but a pro-Israel viewpoint.

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