'Carter has been the only American president with the candor to call out Israel for mirroring apartheid policies of South Africa.'
, “If Israel ceases to be an open democracy, I won’t be able to support it,” and “If Israel becomes a fundamentalist religious state, a theocratic nationalism state, it will cut Israel off from 70 percent of world Jewry.”
H. Scott Prosterman is a writer and communications consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area, and holds an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan.nears the end in hospice care, we are prompted to revisit his accomplishments and contributions. Carter’s prescient 2006 bookelicited a storm of criticism from many Jewish organizations and leaders.
Ironically, Carter’s greatest accomplishment was to broker the 1978 Camp David Accords, initiating the first bilateral Israeli-Egyptian relations. It had the effect of neutralizing Egyptian military might and removing the only serious threat to Israel. Though PM Menachem Begin was Israel’s signatory to the Camp David agreements, it was Carter’s long-standing friendship with Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin, who was Israel’s US ambassador from 1968-‘73, which laid the groundwork.
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