Jimmy Carter: “the close U.S. Australian friendship and alliance”

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

We share a belief that the church was to no way be confused with a political community, no bound to any political system.

Inside Israel, there's no semblance of apartheid. It's a wonderful democracy, with everyone treated the same.

But, when a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States of America as an animal, or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have…