H/T: Glenn Reynolds

PowerLine reports the resignation from the Carter Center of Professor Kenneth Klein of Emory University, a long-time associate of Jimmy Carter and the original Director of the Center. It seems that the highly-regarded academic was dismayed by the many untruths and the propagandistic tone of Mr. Carter's latest effusion: Palestine: Peace, not Apartheid.

Power Line offers the full text of Professor Klein's resignation statement, which should be read in its entirety.  A brief excerpt follows.

President Carter's book on the Middle East, a title too inflammatory to even print, is not based on unvarnished analyses; it is replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments. Aside from the one-sided nature of the book, meant to provoke, there are recollections cited from meetings where I was the third person in the room, and my notes of those meetings show little similarity to points claimed in the book. Being a former President does not give one a unique privilege to invent information or to unpack it with cuts, deftly slanted to provide a particular outlook. Having little access to Arabic and Hebrew sources, I believe, clearly handicapped his understanding and analyses of how history has unfolded over the last decade. Falsehoods, if repeated often enough become meta-truths, and they then can become the erroneous baseline for shaping and reinforcing attitudes and for policy-making. The history and interpretation of the Arab-Israeli conflict is already drowning in half-truths, suppositions, and self-serving myths; more are not necessary. In due course, I shall detail these points and reflect on their origins.

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Bill Faith adds: Don't miss the related cartoon I just posted here.

Contributed by John Werntz on December 6, 2006 at 02:51 PM in Dem Dumbness, Israel, John "72nd TCS" Werntz | Permalink

Comments

Posted by: John

Seems pretty silly to comment on my own post, but I can't resist.  How many times have we heard from the media along these lines:

Bloggers read the news, they comment/bloviate about the news, they criticize the media, but they do not report the news.

Just for the record: PowerLine beat the NYT by 48 hours on this story, and Instapundit beat them by 24 hours.  Could it be that some prominent bloggers held their feet to the fire?

Posted by: John | Dec 7, 2006 6:53:49 PM