Jimmy Carter: “I leave tonight on a new mission in the service of the oldest of human dreams—the dream of peace.”

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

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

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.

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…