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Palestine

Peace Not Apartheid
May 07, 2015rpavlacic rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Apartheid is a very strong word, but it's hard to find another term to describe a world where one group of people in an illegally occupied territory operates under one set of rules - that of the occupying country - while the other group is forced to live under military law, drive on their own set of highways, go through multiple checkpoints just to go to work, etc. Yet Carter describes the situation almost perfectly. He also provides a history of the many attempts made to reconcile the Israelis and Palestinians ... as well as the actual texts of the Camp David Accord and the contentious UN resolutions that have made a ridiculous situation all the crazier. Peace is certainly possible ... although now not even under the parameters that Carter himself suggests in this book.