Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Amazon e Jimmy Carter

http://www.petitiononline.com/Amazon07/petition.html
To: Jeff Bezos, CEO, Amazon.com
As longtime Amazon customers, we are deeply disturbed by your treatment
of Jimmy Carter's important new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.
Under the "Editorial Reviews" heading - a space normally used either
for the publisher's own description of a book, or for short,
even-handed summaries from listing services such as Booklist and
Publishers Weekly - you insist on running the complete, 20-paragraph,
1,636-word text of a review unabashedly hostile to Carter's viewpoint.
You have refused to add information shoppers should have in evaluating
this review: the fact that the reviewer, Jeffrey Goldberg, is a citizen
of Israel as well as the United States, and that he volunteered to
serve in the Israeli Defense Forces, for which he worked as a guard at
a prison for Palestinian detainees. And you have refused to balance his
negative review by giving comparable space to a favorable assessment of
the book, even though positive reviews by qualified experts have
appeared in many reputable publications.
Because giving so much space in this location to such a negative review
is so unusual - if not unprecedented - for Amazon, and because you
have refused requests from many customers that you take a more balanced
approach, we can only conclude that you are deliberately trying to
discourage shoppers from ordering the former President's book.
This is contrary to Amazon's own interests as a bookseller. More
important, it's also contrary to the interests of understanding, peace,
and justice for all parties to the Israel/Palestine conflict
We are not interested in supporting a corporation that uses its power
in the marketplace in such a biased and unconstructive way on such an
important issue.
Accordingly, if you do not, by Jan. 22, remove the Goldberg review,
move it to the more appropriate "See all Editorial Reviews" page, or
restore a semblance of balance by giving comparable space and
prominence to a more positive evaluation of Palestine: Peace Not
Apartheid, we the undersigned pledge to:
1. Stop shopping at Amazon.com;
2. Completely close our accounts on your service; and
3. Encourage our friends, family, and associates to do likewise.
Sincerely,

 Publishers Weekly
http://www.amazon.com/Palestine-Peace-Apartheid-Jimmy-Carter/dp/0743285026/sr=8-1/qid=1168800961/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-3240934-4694234?ie=UTF8&s=books
From Publishers Weekly
The term "good-faith" is almost inappropriate when applied to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a bloody struggle interrupted every so
often by negotiations that turn out to be anything but honest.
Nonetheless, thirty years after his first trip to the Mideast, former
President Jimmy Carter still has hope for a peaceful, comprehensive
solution to the region's troubles, delivering this informed and readable
chronicle as an offering to the cause. An engineer of the 1978 Camp
David Accords and 2002 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Carter would
seem to be a perfect emissary in the Middle East, an impartial and
uniting diplomatic force in a fractured land. Not entirely so.
Throughout his work, Carter assigns ultimate blame to Israel, arguing
that the country's leadership has routinely undermined the peace process
through its obstinate, aggressive and illegal occupation of territories
seized in 1967. He's decidedly less critical of Arab leaders, accepting
their concern for the Palestinian cause at face value, and including
their anti-Israel rhetoric as a matter of course, without much in the
way of counter-argument. Carter's book provides a fine overview for
those unfamiliar with the history of the conflict and lays out an
internationally accepted blueprint for peace.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
All rights reserved.
From Booklist
It is generally believed that history will judge Jimmy Carter a better
ex-president than president, with his good works as an "ex" tipping the
scales in that direction. His latest book derives from his personal
experiences in both arenas: as chief executive of the nation and as
founder of the Carter Foundation, his postpresidency organization
dedicated to world peace. In essence, the reader is presented with a
history of Arab-Israeli discord and the search for a successful
resolution. He cites the lack of permanent peace in the Middle East as a
"persistent threat to global peace" and posits that the stumbling blocks
to a lasting cessation of armed conflict are to be found within two
contexts: Israel's unwillingness to comply with international law and
honor its previous peace commitments, and Arab nations' refusal to
openly acknowledge Israel's right to live undisturbed. The former
president's ideas are expressed with perfect clarity; his book, of
course, represents a personal point of view, but one that is certainly
grounded in both knowledge and wisdom. His outlook on the problem not
only contributes to the literature of debate surrounding it but also,
just as importantly, delivers a worthy game plan for clearing up the
dilemma. Brad Hooper
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Forse l'imbecille che ha scritto la lettera doveva solo preoccuparsi di
premere il link "See all Editorial Reviews" se voleva leggere *TUTTE* le
recensioni.
-Stefano

 
http://www.petitiononline.com/Amazon07/petition.html
Poi parlano del vittimismo altrui...
Grazie delle risate.
Tb
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