Jimmy Carter: “I share the disappointment of the American people that this rescue mission was not successful.”

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…

All of us owe them our gratitude and respect.

Without immediate action, we are at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing our precious democracy.

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.