by Henry Siegman
For The Nation
Former President Jimmy Carter’s new book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid,provoked an uproar even before its publication. The reason for the controversy was the book’s title more than its content, for it seemed tosuggest that the avatar of democracy in the Middle East may be on its wayto creating a political order that resembles South Africa’s apartheid model of discrimination and repression, albeit on ethnic-religious ratherthan racial grounds.
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Henry Siegman is a senior fellow on the MiddleEast at the Council on Foreign Relations, and also is former executive head of the American Jewish Congress and the Synagogue Congress of America.
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