Jimmy Carter: “Perhaps at last the same fervor and commitment and sense of high purpose with which we once sought victory in war can…”

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.

This is a very wise and very courageous thing for President Obama to do. And in my opinion, is long overdue.

All of us must learn to waste less energy.

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