Jimmy Carter: Peanuts Not Olives

Let's face it. Former President Carter has been losing it since 1976. How else can you explain the fact that the man who helped broker the Camp David Peace Accords is now taking sides against Israel?

This man who travels the world allegedly advocating peace, now equates Israel and it's policies, with apartheid,the South African system of dividing races? The title of his book, "Palestine: Peace not Apartheid", says it all. Has he shifted in his views, or does this book portray what he has felt all along?

Former President Jimmy Carter's controversial book and subsequent remarks about the Israel-Palestinian conflict have prompted the resignations of 14 people from an advisory board of the Carter Center, the 25-year-old Atlanta-based humanitarian organization.

The 14 explained their concerns, which reflect an uproar in the U.S. Jewish community over Carter's Mideast stance, in separate letters sent Thursday to fellow Board of Councilors members and Carter.

"We can no longer endorse your strident and uncompromising position," the letter to Carter said. "This is not the Carter Center or the Jimmy Carter we came to respect and support."

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The letter to Carter accused him of abandoning his "historic role of broker in favor of becoming an advocate for one side." Carter's book confused "opinion with fact, subjectivity with objectivity and force for change with partisan advocacy," the letter said.

"Israelis, through deed and public comment, have consistently spoken of a desire to live in peace and make territorial compromise to achieve this status. The Palestinian side has consistently resorted to acts of terror as a national expression and elected parties endorsing the use of terror, the rejection of territorial compromise and of Israel's right to exist. Palestinian leaders have had chances since 1947 to have their own state, including during your own presidency when they snubbed your efforts."

It's apparent that Mr. Carter has changed the parameters of his life's mission. He can whitewash it any way he wants, but it's going to take a lot of spin to erase 60 years of history.

If his thoughts are to re-write history, he should start with the Carter Center…