JIMMY CARTER: IT'S THE JOOOOZ!!

HERE ARE SOME EXCERPTS FROM A NEWSWEEK INTERVIEW WITH JIMMY CARTER ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK: "I HATE JEWS EVERYWHERE, NOT JUST IN ISRAEL."

Ideas: Presidential Provocation (Newsweek)

The word apartheid—did you agonize about that?
Not really, because I knew that's an accurate description of what's going on in Palestine. I would say that the plight of the Palestinians now—the confiscation of their land, that they're being suppressed completely against voicing their disapproval of what's happening, the building of the wall that intrudes deep within their territory, the complete separation of Israelis from the Palestinians—all of those things in many ways are worse than some of the aspects of apartheid in South Africa. No one can go there and visit the different cities in Palestine without agreeing with what I have said.

Why do you think you're under attack for the book and the title?
You and I both know the powerful influence of AIPAC, which is not designed to promote peace. I'm not criticizing them, they have a perfect right to lobby, but their purpose in life is to protect and defend the policies of the Israeli government and to make sure those policies are approved in the United States and in our Congress—and they're very effective at it.