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Palestine Peace not Apartheid (review)

International conflicts often generate sharply differing narratives about their origins and development. Some narratives are based on careful research and thoughtful analysis of all relevant data. Others are political screeds that present the case of one side to the conflict. President Carter’s Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid is a narrative that appears to be based largely on the version of history that Yasser Arafat and his close associates have presented to Carter. The very title of the book, which suggests a parallel between the actions of the state of Israel and of apartheid South Africa, reflects one of the current themes of the anti-Israel propaganda machine. President Carter does, of course, have the right to his opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What is troublesome about the book is that he uses his stature as a former president of the United States to present the country with a discourse on an important international issue that omits significant relevant facts and that is studded with misinformation. We would not expect Jimmy Carter to misinform the American public deliberately. We must assume that without checking on the veracity of statements made to him, he included in the book the inaccurate information that had been supplied to him by one of the parties to the conflict. The government of the United States has for many years been committed to the attainment of peace through the creation of a Palestinian state living side by side at peace with Israel. The challenge has been to resolve two issues: (1) drawing the borders between the two states, and (2) resettling Palestinian refugees of the 1948 and 1967 wars and their descendants. Defining the principles that would govern the drawing of these future borders was the effort that President Clinton undertook in the Camp David