Carter summoned Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat to Camp David to make peace, not apartheid, in the Middle East. But the Israeli president broke his promise to freeze settlements.
President Jimmy Carter did more for the security of Israel than any American president other than Harry Truman.
With the most powerful Arab army withdrawn, no other Arab army, including Syria’s, was in a military position to invade Israel.
Carter was a former president with a foreign policy focusing on the Middle East during his tenure and was outspoken about Middle East politics for the remainder of his life.
After Carter stepped down as president in 1981, he became one of Israel’s most outspoken critics and one of the Palestinians' most vocal supporters.
One of Jimmy Carter's crowning achievements as president was the Camp David talks that would deliver Israel's first peace agreement with an Arab nation and make Nobel Peace Prize winners of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
That’s one of the findings in Mr. Steinberg’s book, “Menachem Begin & the Israel-Egypt Peace Process.” The book, brought out in 2019, details the peace talks between the former prime minister of Israel, Menachem Begin, and the erstwhile president ...
In Walter Mondale’s posthumous eulogy for Jimmy Carter, published yesterday by The New York Times, he summed up the record of their administration: “We told the truth, we obeyed the law, and we kept the peace.” It sounds so simple. But how they kept the peace—or more precisely, forged peace between Israel and Egypt—required actions more morally nebulous than simple truth-telling […]
Carter’s success at Camp David negotiating a Mideast Peace agreement between Egypt and Israel was one of his ... s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin. Flanked by President Sadat and ...
As president, Jimmy Carter brokered the peace agreement that removed Israel’s most powerful enemy from the battlefield. Israel and Egypt signed the Camp David peace accords in 1978. They remain
Early in his presidency, in May 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter gave a commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame that outlined a new approach to America’s role in the world: Carter said human rights should be a “fundamental tenet of our foreign policy.
The Camp David Accords and the treaty that resulted dramatically reduced the odds of general war — even superpower confrontation — in the Middle East.