Jimmy Carter: “Human rights takes on a broad range of meanings.”

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

I think that sends a clear signal to Maliki that we won't be there indefinitely and my hope is that they'll be a commitment by the world community including the controversial nations of Syria and Iran.

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

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.