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1967 oPt: Israeli occupied Palestinian territory, Jimmy Carter's book tour (2006-2007)
2006-12: interviews, news, events, comment, context
Tough Love: Jimmy Carter, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
by Charles Judson Harwood Jr.
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< December 2006 >
• Settlements
• Blockade, reprisals
• Bombing Iran
• War Crimes Act
• Iran uranium timeline
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• Congress debates, votes
• Jimmy Carter, interviewed Thursday November 30 2006 by Michael Smerconish (website) (CBS Radio WPHT, “1210 AM, The Big Talker,” The Michael Smerconish Morning Show, “Headlines Redefined,” Philadelphia Pennsylvania, broadcast Friday December 1 2006, 5-9am, at 7:34-7:48am ET), audio {13:15, 12.1mb.mp3, rss, menu}.
• Jimmy Carter, interviewed by Michael Jones (anchor, CNNRadio Network) (CNN podcasting, Special Programming, posted Friday December 1 2006, 2:00 p.m. ET), audio {9:19, 8.6mb.mp3 rss, source} (CNN might delete this audio on March 1 2007, republished May 2 2007 via rss).
Jimmy Carter at:
• CFR.nyc
• University of Georgia
• Brandeis University
• Emory University
• Carter Center
• George Washington University
• University of Iowa
• Georgia State University
• UCB: University of Calfornia, Berkeley
• UCI: University of Calfornia, Irvine
• AUC: American University in Cairo
• AUB: American University of Beirut
• Jimmy Carter, book signing (Rosewood Hall, Soho Square, Homewood City Hall, 2850 19th Street South, Homewood Alabama, Friday December 1 2006, 11:00 a.m. CT), previewed, Alec Harvey, “Carter's peace talk: Former president wanted to get discussion going with new book” {pf} (The Birmingham News, November 30 2006), reported, Tom Gordon, “Carter tells Homewood audience he wants troops home from Iraq, help for the country” (The Birmingham News, December 1 2006), “Minutes: Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of Homewood, Alabama” (December 4, 2006) (Barry R. McCulley (mayor): “President Jimmy Carter’s book signing last Friday was obviously a success. We had somewhere between 800 and 1,000 people to attend the event at Soho.”).
• Jimmy Carter, interviewed Thursday November 30 2006 by Ernie Suggs, “Q&A: President Jimmy Carter: ‘There is horrible persecution’” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Sunday December 3 2006) (deleted from the AJC website).
• Jimmy Carter, interviewed by Storer H. Rowley (national editor, former Middle East correspondent), “Enough blame to go around” {pf} (Chicago Tribune, Sunday December 3 2006). “Israel always had the option of withdrawing, and now its choice is illegal occupation and colonization of land.”
• Jimmy Carter (studio), interviewed by Tim Russert (Washington bureau chief) (NBC News, Meet the Press, Washington D.C., Sunday December 3 2006, 9:00 a.m. ET) (“the longest running television program in the world”) (audience) (“Tim Russert hits ratings milestone” {pf}, AP, USA Today, April 24 2006), MSNBC transcript {pf, menu}, FNS transcript {Carter archive, MTP archive}, “NBC Meet the Press Netcast” (latest) (ditto, ditto), this netcast {48:19, 106.51mb.wmv, 117.38mb.flv, Carter 11:47 at 36:10-47:57}, video excerpts (46%): part-1 (26%): “Carter on Israeli 'apartheid'” {3:03, 6.7mb.wmv, 7.6mb.flv, source, rss menu} (“Dec. 3: Former President Jimmy Carter tells Tim Russert of NBC’s Meet the Press that he considers some Israel policies toward Palestinians comparable to South African Apartheid”), part-2 (none), part-3 (20%): “Carter's Mideast message for Bush” {2:20, 5.12mb.wmv, 6.1mb.flv, source} (“Dec. 3: Former president Jimmy Carter tells Tim Russert of NBC’s Meet the Press what advice he’d give to President Bush about resolving the Mideast conflict”), part-4 (none), YouTube excerpts (larger) (from part-1 and part-2) {3:30, 8.4mb.flv, .flv}, podcast video/audio (entire hour, excluding adverts, except for other NBC shows): video {48:19, 106.55mb.wmv rss, 181.96mb.mp4 rss, Carter at 36:10}, audio {49:02, 11.22mb.mp3, rss, Carter at 36:47}, broadcast at different local times by 252 U.S. TV stations {pf} (about 200 affiliated to NBC), and via cable and satellites (western hemisphere), by MSNBC (10pm/1am ET), via cable (“to 78 million households”) and satellites, by Orbit News on satellites (Europe, Middle East, channel 27, Sunday, 2/5/8pm GMT, Monday, 12/7am GMT), by AFN TV: American Forces Network (schedule (deleted), Sunday, AFN News, 9pm GMT, Monday, AFN Atlantic, 5am), audio broadcast by 86 U.S. radio stations {pf}, of the 7,700 affiliated to Westwood One (“the largest radio network in the United States”), and by C-Span Radio (Radio WCSP-FM, Washington D.C., 12/11pm ET), simulcast by satellite radio in North America (C-Span Radio, Sirius channel 139, XM channel 132) (C-Span terminated its Sirius broadcasts, two months later, on February 14 2007.
• Jimmy Carter (studio), interviewed by Wolf Blitzer (CNN, Late Edition, Washington D.C., Sunday December 3 2006, 11am-1pm ET, second hour), CNN transcript {archive}, podcast video (entire 2 hour show, excluding adverts) {269.57mb.wmv rss, menu} (a rebroadcast of his Tuesday Situation Room interview), by cable, by satellites (CNNi schedule), audio simulcast, by satellite radio (CNN, Sirius channel 132, XM channel 122, CNNi program on WorldSpace channel 300), audio rebroadcast, by C-Span Radio (Radio WCSP-FM, Washington D.C., 3-4:30 p.m. ET), simulcast by satellite radio in North America (C-Span Radio, Sirius channel 139, XM channel 132) (C-Span terminated its Sirius broadcasts, two months later, on February 14 2007.
• Jimmy Carter, interviewed by Connie Doebele (executive producer), “In Depth: Jimmy Carter” (C-Span, Book TV (wiki), In Depth, Sunday December 3 2006, 12:00-3:30pm/am ET), rebroadcast, Saturday December 9 2006, 9:00am ET), C-Span video 194700-1 (flash), booktv (real player) {3:29:45, .ram, 203mb.rm}, by cable, by satellites (north America). “In Depth will air live from President Carter's home in Plains, Georgia. Call in during the show to ask questions of President Carter or e-mail your questions to booktv|@|c-span.org.”
• James Abourezk (U.S. Congress, House 1971-1973, Senate 1973-1979), letter {copy, copy} to Jeffrey Blankfort dated December 3 2006 (Signs of the Times, December 4 2006), and see, Jeffrey Blankfort, interviewed by Bob Ness, “Jeffrey Blankfort: Jewish-American Anti-Zionist Journalist” (Indybay: San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center (SF-IMC), November 20 2006), Jeffrey Blankfort, “A Debate on the Israel Lobby” (CounterPunch, February 24/25 2007).
See also:
• James Abourezk, interviewed by Brian Lamb (C-Span founder and CEO), “Advise & Dissent: Memoirs of South Dakota & the US Senate by James Abourezk” (C-Span, Booknotes (wiki), Sunday-Monday March 25-26 1990, rebroadcast, Saturday/Sunday February 15-16 2003), C-Span videos, 11662-1 (flash), 5352 (real player) {1:01:43, 57.81mb.rm}, transcript {pf} (partial).
James Abourezk (December 3 2006): I can tell you from personal experience that, at least in the Congress, the support Israel has in that body is based completely on political fear — fear of defeat by anyone who does not do what Israel wants done.
I can also tell you that very few members of Congress — at least when I served there — have any affection for Israel or for its Lobby.
What they have is contempt, but it is silenced by fear of being found out exactly how they feel.
I’ve heard too many cloakroom conversations — in which members of the Senate will voice their bitter feelings about how they’re pushed around by the Lobby — to think otherwise.
In private one hears the dislike of Israel and the tactics of the Lobby, but not one of them is willing to risk the Lobby’s animosity by making their feelings public.
* * *
Secondly, the Lobby is quite clear in its efforts to suppress any congressional dissent from the policy of complete support for Israel which might hurt annual appropriations.
Even one voice is attacked, as I was, on grounds that if Congress is completely silent on the issue, the press will have no one to quote, which effectively silences the press as well.
Any journalists or editors who step out of line are quickly brought under control by well organized economic pressure against the newspaper caught sinning.
I once made a trip through the Middle East, taking with me a reporter friend who wrote for Knight-Ridder newspapers. He was writing honestly about what he saw with respect to the Palestinians and other countries bordering on Israel.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press executives received threats, from several of their large advertisers, that their advertising would be terminated if they continued publishing the journalist’s articles.
It’s a lesson quickly learned by those who controlled the paper.
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So I believe that divestment — and especially cutting off U.S. aid to Israel — would immediately result in Israel’s giving up the West Bank and leaving the Gaza to the Palestinians.
Such pressure would work, I think, because the Israeli public would be able to determine what is causing their misery and would demand that an immediate peace agreement be made with the Palestinians.
It would work because of the democracy there, unlike sanctions against a dictatorship, where the public could do little about changing their leaders’ minds.
One need only look at the objectives of the Israeli Lobby to determine how to best change their minds.
The Lobby’s principal objectives are to keep money flowing from the U.S. treasury to Israel, requiring a docile congress and a compliant administration.
• Ilan Pappé (Haifa) (senior lecturer in political science, University of Haifa, chair, Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies in Haifa), interviewed by Christopher Brown (Berkeley) (“lived and reported from Palestine for three years” “In 2004 he volunteered with Christian Peacemaker Teams near Hebron. While escorting Palestinian children to school he and a colleague were beaten by Israeli settlers.”) {1.7mb.pdf}, “‘Israel needs a wake up call’: An interview with Ilan Pappe” (Crossing The Line: Life in Occupied Palestine, “A weekly podcast giving voice to the voiceless in occupied Palestine,” radio KPFA studios, Berkeley California, posted Monday December 4 2006) {rss, search, search, search}, “A rare voice: An interview with author Ilan Pappe” {pf, rss, menu, search, search} (Electronic Intifada, Chicago). Ilan Pappé is author, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld Publications, Oxford England, published October 12-19 2006, U.S. November 1) {U.K., U.S., Germany}, forthcoming: Ilan Pappé, The Bureaucracy of Evil: The History of the Israeli Occupation (Oneworld, July 1 2010) {U.K., U.S.}.
