Carter met with a group of rabbis who contested his use of the word “apartheid” to describe Israel. And then he went a step further.

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 ...

Early in his presidency, in May 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter gave a commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame that outlined a new approach to America’s role in the world: Carter said human rights should be a “fundamental tenet of our foreign policy.

Carter was a former president with a foreign policy focusing on the Middle East during his tenure and was outspoken about Middle East politics for the remainder of his life.

As president, Jimmy Carter brokered the peace agreement that removed Israel’s most powerful enemy from the battlefield.

The late centenarian, Jimmy Carter, occupied a difficult position in the line of imperial magistrates we know as US Presidents.  Coming to power in the aftermath of murderous US adventurism in Indochina and the debauching of the presidency by Richard Nixon (“when the president does it,

Despite his difficulties in office, Carter had few rivals for accomplishments as a former president. He gained global acclaim as a tireless human rights advocate, winning the respect that eluded him in the White House.

By Seraj Assi Former US president Jimmy Carter, who passed away on Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, was a true friend of Palestine. Despite a decidedly checkered presidency on issues ranging from human rights abroad to austerity at home,

Alter indicates that Carter by-and-large, avoided any involvement in the civil rights movement, including never meeting with fellow Georgian, Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK). Surprisingly, Carter did not join with the 150,000 mourners who marched from the MLK funeral at the Ebenezer Baptist Church though the streets of Atlanta in April of 1968.

Flags will remain at half-mast and half-staff most of the month for Jimmy Carter's death. Jan. 9 will be a national day of mourning for his funeral.

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