Amazon.com bashing Jimmy

Haven't talked about Carter's book, but now seems like a good time. Have you signed this petition? 14,000+ have so far. True, it is a seemingly minor issue for an imperfect, yet very significant book. But with the pro-Israel side throwing everything and the kitchen sink at Carter (and in doing so proving Carter's point), this effort is one way to fight back. Here's part of the press release on this effort:

Contact: Henry Norr

(510) 841-5035

henry@norr.com

Berkeley, CA – More than 10,000 customers of Amazon.com have signed an online petition threatening to close their accounts and take their business elsewhere if the Internet shopping site continues to present a new book by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in an unusually negative light.

The petition, accuses Amazon of treating Carter's Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid unfairly by posting a lengthy and unabashedly hostile review on the page where it lists the book, in a section normally reserved for short, even-handed descriptions of the title in question.

In the book Carter, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to bring about a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, points to Israel's 40-year-long occupation of the Palestinian territories as the key obstacle to peace in the region. He compares Israel's treatment of the Palestinian population to the brutal apartheid system that once kept South African blacks subjugated.