Claiming that the Israeli threshold for criticism is much higher than ours, Beilin writes:
what Carter says in his book about the Israeli occupation and our treatment of Palestinians in the occupied territories — and perhaps no less important, how he says it — is entirely harmonious with the kind of criticism that Israelis themselves voice about their own country. There is nothing in the criticism that Carter has for Israel that has not been said by Israelis themselves.
Of Carter himself, Beilin echoes Michael Lerner's contention that he's "the best friend the Jews ever had as president of the United States," writing of the historic -- and lasting -- peace treaty brokered with Egypt in 1978 that: "Every Israeli, and every Jew to whom the destiny of Israel is important, is indebted to Carter for breaking the ring of hostility that had choked Israel for more than 30 years."
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