It looks like the Israeli Prime Minister didn't wait for Carter's book to be remaindered.  The Jerusalem Post reported last week that:

-- Olmert said it was unlikely that there could be a better Palestinian leadership - from Israel's standpoint - in the foreseeable future. He said that Israel needed to take advantage of such an opportunity to create a Palestinian state in order to maintain a Jewish majority in Israel and "avoid ending up like South Africa."

(www.jpost.com/.../Satellite)

Peretz,

Give it a rest. Your Carter obsession is really getting into near clinical territory. For the zillionth time, yes, we know you dislike Jimmy Carter. Thank you.  For a moment there, I wondered if given your always burning animus, this post was announcing the passing of Jimmy Carter.

Couldn't disagree more Cookie.

This is a blog, not an academic library, stufffed with references and evidence.

The Spine is Marty's impressions and obsessions. It's the instant and visceral.

"Out of this world" Marty?

Ultimatley, that's a matter of interpretation, isn't it?

One less tribal than the other.

I know which side of the history of morality I'm on.

I thought it was Reagan that made mincemeat out of Carter, not George Bush the First.  

So Mack, a not at all tangential question:  What are your thoughts on the right of return.  You still haven't answered.  

Ig:  Loved your description of the old Ireland, and hope some of it, somewhere, remains.

mollysimon who cares what the lying mackenzie thinks.

She is an ignorant troll who confuses official policy with media reports.

mollysimon who cares what the lying mackenzie thinks.

She is an ignorant troll who confuses official policy with media reports.

Yes, I saw Carter's book on remiander pile at the Harvard bookstore.

Soon it will be joined by M&W's screed which is now # 387 on amazon. A few weeks ago it was number 3. I guess all the neonazis along with  mackenzie already got their coupy.

I too was thinking about buying the Young Stalin book.  The reviews have generally been good.  When you finish, post what you think.  I am interested...

btw, Mr. Peretz, what's that you said about The NY Review of Books not publishing any more anti Israel screeds? Did you see their December issue?

It's time that you and Wieseltier start that other review of books of which you have been talking about for a while.

We need a Claremont type review published on the East coast.  Their fall issue was terrific. (I am not counting their conservative political reviews which while well written I don't agree with, I am referring to their articles on literature, drama and the arts.

You might call it “The East Coast Review of Books.”

Yes, I’ll be reading Young Stalin also soon. I am reading right now a novel about that period by a young Russian writer which was originally published in French: Dreams of my Russian Summer by Andrei Makine.

You might also be interested in The Whisperers by Orlando Figes about the private lives of Russian during the Stalinist period.

Here is a review:

context.themoscowtimes.com/print.php

He is especially goon on Stalin’s anti-Zionism campaign which would have culminated in the deportation of all Soviet Jews to Siberia in the early 50’s had his timely death not interrupted his latest vile anti-Semitic campaign.  Stalin’s Russian, btw, was the originator of the new anti-Semitism by calling their anti-Semitism anti-Zionism.

wbur recently interviewed Figes:

“Stalin's Long Shadow”

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11-12PM ET

“Renowned historian Orlando Figes has shed fresh light on the darkest chapter of Russian history -- the 25-year reign of Joseph Stalin, from the late 1920s to his death in 1953.

The Great Purge and the Gulag rank with the 20th century's worst crimes. The numbers -- the 700,000 shot in one year during the purge, the 25 million sent to the Gulag -- numb understanding.

In his new book, "The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia," Orlando Figes makes the terrible story new.

This hour, On Point: an up close and personal look at ordinary Stalinism.”

(The link didn't work the first time around. I hope it works now.)

Yes, I’ll be reading Young Stalin also soon. I am reading right now a novel about that period by a young Russian writer which was originally published in French: Dreams of my Russian Summer by Andrei Makine.

You might also be interested in The Whisperers by Orlando Figes about the private lives of Russian during the Stalinist period.

Here is a review:

context.themoscowtimes.com/print.php

He is especially goon on Stalin’s anti-Zionism campaign which would have culminated in the deportation of all Soviet Jews to Siberia in the early 50’s had his timely death not interrupted his latest vile anti-Semitic campaign.  Stalin’s Russian, btw, was the originator of the new anti-Semitism by calling their anti-Semitism anti-Zionism.

wbur recently interviewed Figes:

“Stalin's Long Shadow”

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11-12PM ET

“Renowned historian Orlando Figes has shed fresh light on the darkest chapter of Russian history -- the 25-year reign of Joseph Stalin, from the late 1920s to his death in 1953.

The Great Purge and the Gulag rank with the 20th century's worst crimes. The numbers -- the 700,000 shot in one year during the purge, the 25 million sent to the Gulag -- numb understanding.

In his new book, "The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia," Orlando Figes makes the terrible story new.

This hour, On Point: an up close and personal look at ordinary Stalinism.”

www.onpointradio.org/.../20071114_b_main.asp

Ireland, lovely place. No abortion. Divorce finally allowed in the late '90s. But the Irish are soooo progressive and cool.

No were not cool Sleepy. That's what makes us so cool.