With the recent passing of former president Jimmy Carter, the time has come to consider the mixed legacy he has left behind. Although remembered for pursuing and signing the Camp David Accords, which facilitated the first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state,
Jimmy Carter spent four years as president of the United States and 44 years as ex-president. It’s his extraordinary career as our former president that we are most likely to
TULKAREM, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian activists and residents planted a grove of 250 olive trees in a northern West Bank town on Monday in memory of the late U.S. President Jimmy Carter, describing him as a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause.
Jimmy Carter was not your stereotypical politician. He was a deeply religious man and more of a moral leader than a political one. I had the good fortune to interview him on three occasions and to join him at the White House to cover the final days of negotiations to get
America has always used a blend of hard power and soft power. We both flex and listen. With the stakes this high, we will need to do both in the coming years.
In 1977, before the Camp David talks, Begin and Sadat had a preliminary meeting at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel. On July 22, 1946, Begin, leading the Jewish Irgun militia, led a terrorist attack on this hotel and 91 were killed and 47 were injured.
A prerequisite for being a president of the United States should be having a carpentry background. Consider all of the knowledge you have to have in building a house.
Last week many Americans witnessed the funeral for former President Jimmy Carter at the National Cathedral in the nation’s capital. President Carter died in December while in hospice care in Georgia.
President Carter practiced his faith clearly and openly — he even taught adult Sunday School while in office! Yet he fully honored the separation of church and state.
Although the ceasefire agreement is a much-needed lifeline for Gaza, there is a lot of skepticism regarding it. Past agreements like the Camp David and Oslo accords demonstrate that achieving peace requires bold leadership,
This cease-fire is still fragile, and working toward a Palestinian solution and a wider Mideast accord will require intense work by the Trump administration.
In Africa, Maryse Quashie, a regular columnist for La Croix International, believes figures such as Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela, and Thomas Sankara could help reconcile young people with politics, which they often associate with lies and theft.