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I emphasized, as I had throughout the tour, that the book was about conditions and events in the Palestinian territories and not in Israel, where a democracy exists with all the freedoms we enjoy in our country and Israeli Jews and Arabs are legally guaranteed the same rights as citizens.

I made it clear that I have never claimed that American Jews control the news media, but reiterated that the overwhelming bias for Israel comes from among Christians like me who have been taught since childhood to honor and protect God’s chosen people from among whom came our own savior, Jesus Christ. An additional factor, especially in the political arena, is the powerful influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which is exercising its legitimate goal of explaining the current policies of Israel’s government and arousing maximum support in our country. There are no significant countervailing voices.

I am familiar with the extreme acts of violence that have been perpetrated against innocent civilians, and understand the fear among many Israelis that threats against their safety and even their existence as a nation still exist. I reiterated my strong condemnation of any such acts of terrorism.

In an interview on Al-Jazeera TV aired January 14, 2007, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter stated that most of the negative feedback to his book had come from "Jewish American organizations" and says that "what is going on against the Palestinian people… is, in my view, very similar, and in some cases even worse, than what happened to the blacks in South Africa."

He said that he "wasn’t equating the Palestinian missiles with terrorism," but that "[such] acts of terrorism… are suicidal for the popularity and support for the Palestinian cause."