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Source: http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20070104-112335-7319r.htm
Israel Loses a Friend
[Washington Times] Yariv Nornberg - Last year, I had the privilege to join President Carter's conflict resolution task team to assist it in the worthy goal of "waging peace." The opportunity to facilitate dialogues between warring parties in conflicts outside of the scope of the Israeli-Arab conflict was a tremendous experience. It convinced me that a goodwill ambassador could actually play a constructive role in facilitating the reconciliation of two enemies. Unfortunately, Mr. Carter's last publication is in total contradiction to this notion. The book completely contradicts all that I was taught about conflict resolution at the Carter Center. By entirely ignoring the countless examples of Palestinian rejection of Israel, inadmissible involvement in terror, and the culture of hatred promoted by the Palestinian Authority, the reader is expected to see Israel as the key party responsible for the conflict. Carter chooses to ignore the fact that the Palestinians have never implemented the first point of the road map agreement, which said that a two-state solution "will only be achieved through an end to violence and terrorism, when the Palestinian people have a leadership acting decisively against terror and willing and able to build a practicing democracy based on tolerance and liberty." The PA has consistently said it has no intention to fulfill its promise to dismantle terrorist organizations or to confiscate illegal weapons. I was especially offended when Mr. Carter equated the "ejection" of Palestinians from their homes to the Indians in Georgia being forced out to make room for "our white ancestors." Mr. Carter deliberately chose to ignore that Jews, unlike his ancestors, were always living in their homeland and that the Palestinians were not ejected, but rather most fled during the battles of the 1947-49 war provoked by the Arab rejection of UN partition Resolution 181.