Carter said that he had chosen to use the word apartheid to refer to conditions Israel was imposing in the occupied Palestinian territories "knowing that it would be provocative." His intent, he said, was to point out "that this cruel oppression is contrary to the tenets of the Jewish religious faith and contrary to the basic principles of the state of Israel."
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