Jimmy Carter: “I believe that our country has a great deal to offer that has not yet been accepted by people from other nations.”

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

We look on human rights as an ability to live in peace. And to believe that your future will be better than your past might be.

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.

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