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Mitch Trachtenberg's avatar

Carter was a good man, and my introduction to the ability of the media to maul anyone that frightened America's elites; I'm sure you remember the killer rabbit. America's turn from Carter to Reagan was one bookend of my working life, and its turn to trump is the other. We get what we deserve, and it's a shame for the rest of the world.

As for Deir Yassin, perhaps you have not heard of the relatively recently published book "The Massacre That Never Was," by Professor Eliezer Tauber of Bar-Ilan University. Tauber interviewed everyone he could find, from all sides, and was told by former residents of Deir Yassin that the accusation of a "massacre" was hype demanded by Arab leadership at the time, in hopes of involving other Arab militaries. Instead, it became a major cause of the flight that created the dispossessed Palestinian refugees. The book was initially published in Hebrew, and American university presses didn't want to publish a translation for fear of offending the politically correct. It eventually found a more courageous publisher for the English translation, and is easily available. For a discussion of the shameful cowardice of the university presses you could see: https://jewishjournal.com/rosnersdomain/231367/truth-deir-yassin/

You'll probably consider it Israeli propaganda. I believe it is the truth.

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Don Allan's avatar

Jimmy Carter was one of my favorite presidents (JFK would top the list). I was living on the west coast of Vancouver Island in Canada in the Fall of 1976 when Carter was elected. There were a lot of draft dodgers living in the area (I wasn't one - I was born in Canada). I met one guy from Santa Cruz who wasn't able to attend his mother's funeral because he would have been arrested. There were a lot of happy American ex-pats after that election - Carter followed through in granting them amnesty. The peace accord he brokered between Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin showed his skill as a diplomat - possibly unmatched since then. He was a decent and intelligent man (nuclear engineer) - just the type of honest. humble person the country needed in the wake of the Nixon disgrace and the failure of Gerald Ford as a leader.

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