Title: A Slanted View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Review: I picked up this book in hopes of learning something new - I did. What I learned is that Carter is biased in favor of the Palestinians. What it boils down to in Carter's view is that it is Israel's harsh repression of the Palestinians that is causing all the problems. If the Israelis didn't repress them, the Palestinians wouldn't suicide bomb. This is a twisted view of the truth. When the U.N. partitioned the Holy Land, the Jews accepted, and the Arabs attacked the new country with the aim of destroying it. Time and time again, Israel has been attacked and threatened by the Arabs. Carter ignores this history as a factor in the present. He criticizes the separation wall because it cuts through a Christian holy site and takes Arab land, but he minimizes the fact that the wall was built to keep suicide bombers out. The omissions and the skewed view go on and on. If you want a balanced view of the Arab-Israeli problem, you won't get it in this book.
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