[Peace-discuss] Denigrating Carter's book on Israel/Palestine

[Morton K. Brussel]

Notes from Mazin Qumsiyeh regarding a highly unfavorable review on  
Amazon.com of Carter's book.



1) Wolf Blitzer worked for the Israel lobby before he worked for CNN.
2) Action: boycott Amazon
3) Question/commentary: How much will big oil companies pillage from  
Iraq?? (I could use some help in the math!)
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1) Wolf Blitzer worked for the Israel lobby before he worked for  
CNN.  Here is a video of him advocating Israeli perspecives on a  
Panel with Norman Finkelstein before he became CNN employee http:// 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-8aTGnjHnI

2) Action: (I wrote to Jeff Bezos and a Jesse Jensen, executive  
customer relations ecr at amazon.com responded that they are keeping the  
review.  I wrote back saying Amazon lost a good customer and that I  
am informing my listserve.  I also bought four copies of Carter’s  
book at Costco- MQ). FWD from Henry Norr: For several weeks now  
Amazon.com has been running the full, 1636-word text of a totally  
negative review of Jimmy Carter's "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" on  
the page where it sells the book
http://www.amazon.com/Palestine-Peace-Apartheid-Jimmy-Carter/dp/ 
0743285026/sr=8-1/qid=1168467614/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-2193402-4648137? 
ie=UTF8&s=books

Because this is totally out of line with their normal format and in  
contradiction to their self-interest in selling copies, and because  
their CEO, Jeff Bezos, has flatly turned down requests from me and  
other customers for more balanced treatment of the book, it seems  
clear that this is either a deliberate political statement on the  
part of Amazon's leaders or an abject concession to pressure from  
Zionist zealots. Whatever you think of the Carter book, its  
publication is an important event, and it's unacceptable for Amazon  
to be trying to discourage sales of it.

Since the letters didn't work, I've created an online petition  
protesting what Amazon is doing and threatening to cancel my account  
there. It's at http://www.petitiononline.com/Amazon07/petition.html .  
I hope you'll not only check it out and sign it, but also pass along  
copies of this message or one of your own to friends and family and  
to all possible e-mail lists.

If you agree that Amazon is out of line on this, but you're  
uncomfortable with anything in the petition, or you're not willing to  
pledge to close your account, or you don't have an account to begin  
with, you can send your own message  directly to Bezos at  
jeff at amazon.com.
In fact, even if you do sign the petition, it wouldn't hurt to send  
him e-mail in addition.
Most important, though, is to spread the word to as many people as  
possible.