Jimmy Carter: “I campaigned for 2 years around our country.”

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.

Base on what I just said, which I can't retract.

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

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