Jimmy Carter: “And my prayer is and my expectation is the next few years that that commitment and that influence will continue.”

The title was very carefully chosen by me. And the first word is the most important. It's Palestine. The land of the Palestinians. It doesn't refer to Israel at all.

Carter says the animosity directed at the president over health care, the big bailouts, is being driven because Mr. Obama is a black man.

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

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