[WCUSP] Fwd: Letter to Editor Re: Jimmy Carter's book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid

[yvonne simmons]

--- Regina Birchem <regbirchem at earthlink.net> wrote:

> To: yvonne simmons <roweenayvonne at yahoo.com>
> From: Regina Birchem <regbirchem at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Fwd: Letter to Editor Re: Jimmy Carter's
> book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
> Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 10:59:28 -0500
> 
> 
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> > From: JoanWDrake at aol.com
> > Date: January 3, 2007 6:05:04 PM EST (CA)
> > Subject: Letter to Editor Re: Jimmy Carter's book
> Palestine Peace  
> > Not Apartheid
> >
> > My Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post's
> Book World in  
> > regard to its review of Jimmy Carter's book
> Palestine Peace Not  
> > Apartheid.
> >
> > Dear Editor: I am surprised and disappointed that
> the Post chose  
> > Jeffery Goldberg to review Jimmy Carter's book,
> Palestine Peace Not  
> > Apartheid. The Washington Post's choice of a
> Jewish Israeli citizen  
> > who moved from his American birthplace to become a
> soldier in  
> > Israel, serving as a prison guard at one of
> Israel's most notorious  
> > prisons where international and Israeli human
> rights organizations  
> > have documented inhumane conditions and torture
> for hundreds of  
> > Palestinians (many of them women and children)
> being held there  
> > indefinitely and without charge or appeal.
> >
> > I cannot imagine a worse choice of reviewer -- I
> hope that the Post  
> > will not only apologize to its readers and to
> President Carter but  
> > that it will publish a re-review of the book by a
> critic who comes  
> > to the task with some objectivity, one who is able
> to judge not  
> > only the book's literary merits but its historical
> accuracy.
> >
> > Please let me know your decision and what action
> you plan to take  
> > on this matter.
> >
> > Yours truly, Joan W. Drake, 2532 Q St., NW,
> Washington, DC 20007,  
> > January 3, 2007
> 
> 


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