The question of Carter's cash: in which our reporter follows the money.(Jimmy Carter)

DID Jimmy Carter do it for the money? That's the question making the rounds about Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, an anti-Israeli screed recently written by the ex-president whose Carter Center has accepted millions in Arab funding.

Even in Carter's long history of post-presidential grandstanding, this book sets fresh standards of irresponsibility. Purporting to give a balanced view of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Carter effectively shrugs off such highly germane matters as Palestinian terrorism. The hypocrisies are boundless, and include adoring praise of the deeply oppressive, religiously intolerant Saudi regime side by side with condemnations of democratic Israel. In one section, typical of the book's entire approach, Carter includes a "Historical Chronology," from Biblical times to 2006, in which he dwells on events surrounding his 1978 Camp David Accords but omits the Holocaust. Kenneth W. Stein, the founder of the Carter Center's Middle East program, resigned last month to protest the book, describing it in a letter to Fox News as "replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments." As this article goes to…