`      RE: Carter and Apartheid -  The article should mention that he was not plowing new ground. More than one Jewish - Israeli ``historian`` - real historians, really - preceded him in the discovery that Israel acts just like South Africa did. I was surprised to see the indignation expressed when Carter's book was first released. I thought then, and still do, that it was feigned indignation for press consumption only. Without knowing who expressed their hurt feelings - I bet I can guess as to who at least a half dozen of the usual suspects are, sight unseen. I repeat, and the article should at least mention once, that equating - noticing - that Israel and its former staunch ally south Africa was not totally new with Carter, heck we ( my friends,family and I ) made the obvious observation years before the historians - decades before Carter ( at least publically)   `