Last Tuesday, Jimmy Carter, while promoting his new book, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid,* went further in his anti-Israel rhetoric than even most hard-left extremists would go. Asked whether he believed that Israel's "persecution" of Palestinians was "[e]ven worse ... than a place like Rwanda," Carter answered, "Yes. I think - yes." (You can find the transcript here.)
The comparison is breathtaking and wrong. Here are the facts:
In April through July of 1994, Hutu militias slaughtered an estimated 800,000 Tutsis...
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