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President Carter Got it Right
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12/21/2006
A Commentary by Landrum Bolling
President Jimmy Carters newest book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid is partly a memoir of his life-long attachment as a Christian to the Holy Land, of his three decades of travels to the region and his in-depth study of its peoples and their problems, and of his strenuous but successful brokering, as a mediating President, of the first peace treaty between Israel and her largest Arab neighbor, Egypt.
Inevitably, his book is also an account of his disappointment that his dream of a comprehensive peace between Israel and all of her neighbors, including the Palestinians, has not yet been achieved but also it is an affirmation of his strong conviction that a mutually acceptable peace can still be reached.
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Understandably, he attempts to explain why things have got wrong, and what needs to be done to set things right.
He makes it clear that there is blame enough to go around for all the parties involved. He deplores both Palestinian suicide bombers who have killed many innocent Israeli women and children and Israeli assaults against Palestinian militants that have resulted in the death of many innocent Palestinian women and children.
To achieve a true peace he insists that the Palestinians and other Arabs must accept the right of Israel to exist and to live in peace within secure boundaries. And he also insists that Israel must end its occupation control over the Palestinians and allow them genuine freedom to create a viable independent state within the boundaries both sides observed until June 1967.
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The ultimate and decisive stumbling block he sees as the Israeli insistence on maintaining an oppressive occupation control of the Palestinians and refusing to negotiate with them until they stop all acts of violence and meet other conditions laid down by Israel and its American and other partners. The pattern of that occupation he says some Israelis themselves now see as a form of Apartheid not, of course, identical with the historic South African White-dominated control of Black South Africans, but nonetheless similarly destructive and corrupting of both peoples.
Critics of President Carter, of his ideas and of his book have centered on his use of the word Apartheid.. There are thoughtful people, Israelis and others, who think the word, though loaded with harsh connotations is, in current conditions in the Holy Land, fully justified. But far more important than the appropriateness of a particular word are the broad outlines of what a just peace would be and how it could be attained. Those are the issues Carter challenges all parties to the conflict and all interested observers to examine thoroughly and seriously.
