Jimmy Carter: “I expressed grave concern at the effect Tongsun Park's lack of cooperation was having on our mutual interests.”

I don't agree with that at all.

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.

We share a belief that the church was to no way be confused with a political community, no bound to any political system.

Our great nation now teeters on the brink of a widening abyss. Without immediate action, we are at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing our precious democracy.