Palestine Peace Not Apartheid. The title was Jimmy Carter’s idea. Peace talks were nonexistent, Israel showed no sign of ending its control over the lives of millions of Palestinians ...

In November 2010, former President Jimmy Carter visited my office in the White House, where I had just taken up the post of national security adviser. It was a reunion of sorts: at age 22, I had begun ...

We’ll start with a brief summation on Carter and Israel: While Carter’s most prominent achievement was getting Israel and Egypt to sign a peace treaty, the Camp David Accords, he very well may ...

I came with my own preconceptions of Jimmy Carter: the failed one-term president and faux humanitarian who had accused Israel of apartheid. I expected to leave with feelings of bitterness and ...

One of the world’s most complex regions hosted the humble Southerner’s biggest triumph and most stinging defeat, as seen on front pages of The Washington Post.

Though Carter was more critical of Israel and supportive of Arabs than all other presidents, especially after he left office, he did more for the security of Israel than any American president ...

However, it was partially his own fault when that tenacity went too far for many in the pro-Israel community. THEN-PRIME minister Menachem Begin (right) and then-Egyptian president Anwar Sadat ...

Carter, a strong advocate of the Palestinians after his presidency, claimed that Israel's policies amounted to an apartheid worse than South Africa's. In 1978, the groundbreaking possibility of ...

Another success for Carter was the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, which had fought three major wars against each other. Israel’s Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, and Egypt’s ...

Yes, the 1978 Camp David Accords ushered in nearly a half century of peace between Israel and Egypt. Carter single-handedly took Egypt, Israel’s only serious conventional military threat ...

That means embracing debate and criticism, which Carter did during his presidency and long afterward. When he gave his opinion about Israel, it provoked opinions about him. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...