Jimmy Carter: “I'm very grateful that these men are willing to serve.”

The title was very carefully chosen by me. And the first word is the most important. It's Palestine. The land of the Palestinians. It doesn't refer to Israel at all.

We look on human rights as an ability to live in peace. And to believe that your future will be better than your past might be.

That our country for the first time in my lifetime has abandoned basic principles of human rights.

But inside Palestine, outside of Israel, where the Israelis occupying forces are there, the persecution and deprivation of the Palestinians is horrendous.