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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat was Jimmy Carter's Israel v. Palestine policy?
I suspect his vision was for Peace in the Middle East.
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What was Jimmy Carter's Israel v. Palestine policy? (Original Post)
OAITW r.2.0
Nov 2023
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Mosby
(19,491 posts)1. Carter Center
President and Mrs. Carter and The Carter Center have worked to support a viable two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to promote comprehensive peace in the region for decades. The conflict between the major Palestinian political parties Fatah and Hamas has been a particular focus. Palestinian national unity is critical to the success of a two-state solution and the conflict has fractured Palestinian democratic institutions and fed a spiral of intra-Palestinian human rights abuses.
AndyJaque
(65 posts)2. The Camp David Accords

OAITW r.2.0
(32,563 posts)3. A moment of hope........
radicalleft
(579 posts)4. Listen for yourself...
David__77
(24,857 posts)5. He wrote a book called " Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid".
I think it contains his thoughts on the matter.
former9thward
(33,424 posts)6. He apologized for the book two years later.
Jimmy Carter Apologizes For Criticizing Israel
Former President Jimmy Carter apologized this week for criticizing Israel for its treatment of Palestinians in his writings and comments, statements like calling the Jewish nation an "apartheid" state which, he suggests, may have stigmatized it.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2009/12/jimmy_carter_apologizes_for_cr.html
Former President Jimmy Carter apologized this week for criticizing Israel for its treatment of Palestinians in his writings and comments, statements like calling the Jewish nation an "apartheid" state which, he suggests, may have stigmatized it.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2009/12/jimmy_carter_apologizes_for_cr.html
David__77
(24,857 posts)7. Nice words. Doesn't sound like an apology for the book.
radicalleft
(579 posts)11. More like a clarification
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Uncle Joe
(65,502 posts)8. The thing about Jimmy was that, I never noticed a v
Thanks for the thread OAITW
lees1975
(7,184 posts)9. Carter believed in a two-state solution.
His ability to negotiate respectfully and his diplomacy might have led to a different outcome if he'd been around fifty years earlier, while things were still developing.
Kennah
(14,578 posts)10. He brokered peace between Israel and Egypt, and Sadat paid with his life for that peace