Jimmy Carter: “I want to thank the Alaskan delegation who are here, the Congress Members who have been so instrumental in the passage…”

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

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.

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…

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.