Jimmy Carter: “This is an unacceptable and unwise intrusion upon their rights under the first amendment.”

The aircraft carrying the 52 American hostages had cleared Iranian airspace on the first -- first leg of a journey home. And at every one of the 52 hostages was alive, was well and free.

I recognize that Israel is a wonderful democracy with freedom of speech and equality of treatment under the law between Arab Israelis and Jewish Israelis.

I fear for our democracy.

The Israeli government has rejected all the key issues that are included in the road map for peace.