Abu Wabu

Power Line blasts Dhimmi Carter's book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, which title is meant to portray the Israelis as violent racists and Palestinians as victims. In other words, the same old load of crap.

The problem with Carter's writing on the Middle East, though, isn't that it has run afoul of some nefarious lobby. The problem is that it is so bizarrely out of touch with reality that it is hard to interpret except as a manifestation of some kind of animus. Carter writes:

The book describes the abominable oppression and persecution in the occupied Palestinian territories, with a rigid system of required passes and strict segregation between Palestine's citizens and Jewish settlers in the West Bank.

Note that just a few paragraphs earlier, Carter called for "a balanced position between Israel and Palestine."Is this what he meant by "balanced?" Why is it that Israel has been forced to impose a "rigid system of passes and strict segregation between Palestine's citizens and Jewish settlers..."? This was done in self-defense to stop Palestinian mass murderers from blowing up Israelis. But Carter calls self-defense "abominable oppression and persecution."

In that case, I'm all for abominable oppression and persecution. Who wouldn't be?