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Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter

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agtw's review against another edition

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challenging informative medium-paced

3.5

Carter's incredibly unique and informed standpoint as both a U.S. President and a good man is demonstrated with utmost regard to the principal conflict on earth, Israel-Palestine.

And though the situation has had dramatic changes in the eighteen years since this book's revision, its core principles stay rooted. Carter, first-hand, has seen the widespread destruction wrought on the Palestinian people by the state of Israel, and the ensuing fruitless terrorist response of extremist groups such as Hamas.

This conflict's unrivalled complexity and perpetuity becomes shockingly clear-cut in Palestine Peace Not Apartheid - with the need for a two-state solution, abolition of Israeli militant policies and practices, and a united and tolerant Arab world. A solution so simple, yet so frustratingly unachievable.

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sohailar's review against another edition

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2.0

While Carter attempts to present his perspective as neutral and balanced, this is clearly written from a colonial, imperialist, white supremacist, and Christian-centric perspective. While more moderately framed than other imperial/colonial books on this issue, it simply an opinion piece that prioritizes the wants of the colonists over the rights of a brutalized indigenous population written by a man who either consciously or unconsciously views the indigenous population as inferior. 
Potentially triggering terms used:
Example- use of the term oriental to describe a group of people

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the_true_monroe's review against another edition

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challenging informative sad slow-paced

3.75


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jonwood's review against another edition

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challenging dark informative sad fast-paced

3.0

This book really highlights just how complicated and violent politics are in the middle east and the Holy Land. I couldn't follow all of it, Carter moves through a lot of history rather fast, somewhat like a cliff notes of the past century or so of middle east conflict.

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