What Jimmy Carter Got Wrong about Middle East Peacemaking
The late president misunderstood his own greatest accomplishment.
December 30, 2024
What Jimmy Carter Got Wrong about Middle East Peacemaking
The late president misunderstood his own greatest accomplishment.
In December of 2016, the late Jimmy Carter published an op-ed in the New York Times about the Israel-Palestinian conflict, in which he, naturally, touted his achievement in mediating the 1978 Egypt-Israel peace treaty. But it was the accompanying graphic, of a mother bird feeding an olive branch to two nestlings, that revealed much about Carter’s thinking:
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