Frankly, the world would be a better place if former President Jimmy Carter stuck to building homes and was kept away from any writing implements, cameras or microphones.

Carter's latest bit of dreck is entitled "Palestine: Peace not apartheid." Thankfully, that's all you need to read to know that Carter would rather all those troublesome Jews in the Middle East just disappear -- maybe not in the mushroom cloud that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinnerjacket would prefer -- but disappear from the largely Arab Middle East all the same.

Alan Dershowitz -- whom I disagree with on everything except Israel's right to exist and the ocassional necessity of the use of coercive interrogations techniques -- takes Carter to task for his "it's all the Jews fault" book over at the Huffington Post.

I don't know why Jimmy Carter, who is generally a careful man, allowed so many errors and omissions to blemish his book. Here are simply a few of the most egregious.

• Carter emphasizes that "Christian and Muslim Arabs had continued to live in this same land since Roman times," but he ignores the fact that Jews have lived in Hebron, Tzfat, Jerusalem, and other cities for even longer. Nor does he discuss the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Arab countries since 1948.

• Carter repeatedly claims that the Palestinians have long supported a two-state solution and the Israelis have always opposed it. Yet he makes no mention of the fact that in 1938 the Peel Commission proposed a two-state solution with Israel receiving a mere sliver of its ancient homeland and the Palestinians receiving the bulk of the land. The Jews accepted and the Palestinians rejected this proposal, because Arab leaders cared more about there being no Jewish state on Muslim holy land than about having a Palestinian state of their own.

• He barely mentions Israel's acceptance, and the Palestinian rejection, of the U.N.'s division of the mandate in 1948.

• He claims that in 1967 Israel launched a preemptive attack against Jordan. The fact is that Jordan attacked Israel first, Israel tried desperately to persuade Jordan to remain out of the war, and Israel counterattacked after the Jordanian army surrounded Jerusalem, firing missiles into the center of the city. Only then did Israel capture the West Bank, which it was willing to return in exchange for peace and recognition from Jordan.

• Carter repeatedly mentions Security Council Resolution 242, which called for return of captured territories in exchange for peace, recognition and secure boundaries, but he ignores the fact that Israel accepted and all the Arab nations and the Palestinians rejected this resolution. The Arabs met in Khartum and issued their three famous "no's": "No peace, no recognition, no negotiation" but you wouldn't know that from reading the history according to Carter.

• Carter faults Israel for its "air strike that destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor" without mentioning that Iraq had threatened to attack Israel with nuclear weapons if they succeeded in building a bomb.

I encourage you to read all of Dershowitz's piece, and if you can stomach it, the vicious anti-Semitism that follows in the comments. I recognize that you can oppose the things that Israel does and not be anti-Semitic, but the comments from the crazed lefties at the Huffington Post don't take such nuanced positions.