JIMMY CARTER: MAN FROM PLAINS

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Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains is directed by Jonathan Demme and is a good snapshot of the former president while on a national book tour for his controversial best selling work: Palestine-Peace Not Apartheid. I`ve read most of the book and acquired my copy at BookPeople when Carter came to Austin. I got to actually see the president and had my copy of the book personally signed. The portrayal by Demme is favorable and shows the courage of Jimmy in the face of criticism for his views about the way Israel treats the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Carter argument is very sensible, and simply shows the way Israel have fenced these people in and oppresses them the way whites have oppressed blacks in South Africa. This is where Apartheid comes in by way of an analogy. There are no flaws in Jimmy`s argument as presented. “The largest mental institution in the country is the Los Angeles County jail.” Rosilyn Carter gives a speech on the problem of mental illness. Jimmy is still very fit and mentally alert and still a big force for peace in the Middle East…A lot of airports and airplanes…Kenneth Stein, a director of the Carter Center, quits during the book tour. Footage of a bombing in Jerusalem. A bombing in Tel Aviv…Atlanta Georgia at the Carter Center. They discuss Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua. Everyone can enact change…See the world with fresh eyes…Security needs on the West Bank…defense of Israeli position. In a hotel again. Book is very carefully checked for accuracy. Does a reading from one of his book. Contract with Simon Schuster. No negotiations in Middle East since President Clinton. Candidates who oppose Israel will lose their support. Only two check points in the Gaza Strip. Carter rides a bike. Camp David Accords footage. Anwar Sadat and Menachim Begin screaming at each other. I love Jimmy Carter. Gas Crisis was a very odd thing to experience. Not one hostage died as a result of Carter`s reaction to the Iranian Hostage Crisis. I`ve studied the Malaise speech and find it honest and revealing. Sake of peace, Begin speaks…Carter has done it…no one else can. “Musicians Village” build a house. Not enough is getting done for home loans for families…Sound track is reflective…Al Escovedo does some of the songs, all instrumental, acoustic…good background music…Now Los Angeles rap music talking on the cell phone. In dressing room for make-up. Loss of land. Loss of freedom. Jimmy with Edward Norton on Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Do you remember Jimmy Carter in Playboy Magazine? He had lust in his heart…Ignore Arab Terrorism? Let the Gaza people get out of the fence. Fence designed to take land. The Geneva Accords to start with. Aljazeera. Riz Khan. Comprehensive peace agreement. Impediment aggression from Israelis. Casa de Laundry. Drives through LA. Good Spanish but he`s rusty. Rosa and I read the bible in Spanish for thirty years. Last thing of the night. In airport again. Friendly to passengers on plane. Music is New Agy, mellifluous, dreamy, a little country. Phoenix AZ. Book is not about Isreali. Mandatory separation and persecution of people. Noxious. Adobe flats cloudy skies Israelite protests…a book of lies..signs copiesPalestinian side then hatred upon us they treat us like nothing. Carter in car and getaway…publicist with him the whole time…human rights abuse in Palestine. Bound together in the Brother of Abraham. Swimming now. The Department of Energy created in his term…Alan Dershowitz doesn`t like it. I supported him 1976. Reasonable debate. Hitler perpetrated one of the worst crimes, the so called holocaust. Hamas was elected freely…Hamas equivalent of Nazis. Hamas terrorist cockroaches. Speaks at Brandeis. Provocative title. Brings the controversy to the public. I`ve been hurt. Called a liar, and a bigot, a coward, an anti-semite. This hurts me. A Harvard professor is not needed. Jimmy Carter is a genius.