Jimmy Carter - Nobel Lecture Jimmy Carter The Nobel Peace Prize 2002 Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter - Nobel Lecture Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2002 Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter delivers his Nobel Lecture after receiving the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize in the Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway. Copyright© Pressens Bild AB 2002, S-112 88 Stockholm, Sweden, telephone: +46 (0)8 738 38 00 Photo: EPA Scanpix Norway POOL/Bjoern Sigurdson Your Majesties, Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I accept this prize. I am grateful to my wife Rosalynn, to my colleagues at The Carter Center, and to many others who continue to seek an end to violence and suffering throughout the world. The scope and character of our Center's activities are perhaps unique, but in many other ways they are typical of the work being done by many hundreds of nongovernmental organizations that strive for human rights and peace.

Most Nobel Laureates have carried out our work in safety, but there are others who have acted with great personal courage. None has provided more vivid reminders of the dangers of peacemaking than two of my friends, Anwar Sadat and Yitzak Rabin , who gave their lives for the cause of peace in the Middle East. Like these two heroes, my first chosen career was in the military, as a submarine officer. My shipmates and I realized that we had to be ready to fight if combat was forced upon us, and we were prepared to give our lives to defend our nation and its principles. At the same time, we always prayed fervently that our readiness would ensure that there would be no war. Later, as President and as Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces, I was one of those who bore the sobering responsibility of maintaining global stability during the height of the Cold War, as the world's two superpowers confronted each other. Both sides understood that an unresolved political altercation or a serious misjudgment could lead to a nuclear holocaust. In Washington and in Moscow, we knew that we would have less than a half hour to respond after we learned that intercontinental missiles had been launched against us.

There had to be a constant and delicate balancing of our great military strength with aggressive diplomacy, always seeking to build friendships with other nations, large and small, that shared a common cause. In those days, the nuclear and conventional armaments of the United States and the Soviet Union were almost equal, but democracy ultimately prevailed because of commitments to freedom and human rights, not only by people in my country and those of our allies, but in the former Soviet empire as well. As president, I extended my public support and encouragement to Andrei Sakharov , who, although denied the right to attend the ceremony, was honored here for his personal commitments to these same ideals. The world has changed greatly since I left the White House. Now there is only one superpower, with unprecedented military and economic strength. The coming budget for American armaments will be greater than those of the next fifteen nations combined, and there are troops from the United States in many countries throughout the world. Our gross national economy exceeds that of the three countries that follow us, and our nation's voice most often prevails as decisions are made concerning trade, humanitarian assistance, and the allocation of global wealth. This dominant status is unlikely to change in our lifetimes.

Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed that super strength guarantees super wisdom, and we have consistently reached out to the international community to ensure that our own power and influence are tempered by the best common judgment. Within our country, ultimate decisions are made through democratic means, which tend to moderate radical or ill-advised proposals. Constrained and inspired by historic constitutional principles, our nation has endeavored for more than two hundred years to follow the now almost universal ideals of freedom, human rights, and justice for all. Our president, Woodrow Wilson, was honored here for promoting the League of Nations, whose two basic concepts were profoundly important: "collective security" and "self-determination." Now they are embedded in international law. Violations of these premises during the last half-century have been tragic failures, as was vividly demonstrated when the Soviet Union attempted to conquer Afghanistan and when Iraq invaded Kuwait. After the second world war, American Secretary of State Cordell Hull received this prize for his role in founding the United Nations . His successor, General George C. Marshall, was recognized because of his efforts to help rebuild Europe, without excluding the vanquished nations of Italy and Germany.

This was a historic example of respecting human rights as the international level. Ladies and gentlemen: Twelve years ago, President Mikhail Gorbachev received your recognition for his preeminent role in ending the Cold War that had lasted fifty years. But instead of entering a millennium of peace, the world is now, in many ways, a more dangerous place. The greater ease of travel and communication has not been matched by equal understanding and mutual respect. There is a plethora of civil wars, unrestrained by rules of the Geneva Convention, within which an overwhelming portion of the casualties are unarmed civilians who have no ability to defend themselves. And recent appalling acts of terrorism have reminded us that no nations, even superpowers, are invulnerable. It is clear that global challenges must be met with an emphasis on peace, in harmony with others, with strong alliances and international consensus. Imperfect as it may be, there is no doubt that this can best be done through the United Nations, which Ralph Bunche described here in this same forum as exhibiting a "fortunate flexibility" - not merely to preserve peace but also to make change, even radical change, without violence.

He went on to say: "To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who sincerely believe in peace clearly must be to exhaust every honorable recourse in the effort to save the peace. The world has had ample evidence that war begets only conditions that beget further war." We must remember that today there are at least eight nuclear powers on earth, and three of them are threatening to their neighbors in areas of great international tension. For powerful countries to adopt a principle of preventive war may well set an example that can have catastrophic consequences. If we accept the premise that the United Nations is the best avenue for the maintenance of peace, then the carefully considered decisions of the United Nations Security Council must be enforced. All too often, the alternative has proven to be uncontrollable violence and expanding spheres of hostility. For more than half a century, following the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, the Middle East conflict has been a source of worldwide tension. At Camp David in 1978 and in Oslo in 1993, Israelis, Egyptians, and Palestinians have endorsed the only reasonable prescription for peace: United Nations Resolution 242.

It condemns the acquisition of territory by force, calls for withdrawal of Israel from the occupied territories, and provides for Israelis to live securely and in harmony with their neighbors. There is no other mandate whose implementation could more profoundly improve international relationships. Perhaps of more immediate concern is the necessity for Iraq to comply fully with the unanimous decision of the Security Council that it eliminate all weapons of mass destruction and permit unimpeded access by inspectors to confirm that this commitment has been honored. The world insists that this be done. I thought often during my years in the White House of an admonition that we received in our small school in Plains, Georgia, from a beloved teacher, Miss Julia Coleman. She often said: "We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles." When I was a young boy, this same teacher also introduced me to Leo Tolstoy's novel, "War and Peace." She interpreted that powerful narrative as a reminder that the simple human attributes of goodness and truth can overcome great power. She also taught us that an individual is not swept along on a tide of inevitability but can influence even the greatest human events.

These premises have been proven by the lives of many heroes, some of whose names were little known outside their own regions until they became Nobel laureates: Albert John Lutuli , Norman Borlaug , Desmond Tutu , Elie Wiesel , Aung San Suu Kyi , Jody Williams and even Albert Schweitzer and Mother Teresa . All of these and others have proven that even without government power - and often in opposition to it - individuals can enhance human rights and wage peace, actively and effectively. The Nobel prize also profoundly magnified the inspiring global influence of Martin Luther King, Jr. , the greatest leader that my native state has ever produced. On a personal note, it is unlikely that my political career beyond Georgia would have been possible without the changes brought about by the civil rights movement in the American south and throughout our nation. On the steps of our memorial to Abraham Lincoln, Dr. King said: "I have a dream that on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood." The scourge of racism has not been vanquished, either in the red hills of our state or around the world.

And yet we see ever more frequent manifestations of his dream of racial healing. In a symbolic but very genuine way, at least involving two Georgians, it is coming true in Oslo today. I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the generally accepted goals of society are peace, freedom, human rights, environmental quality, the alleviation of suffering, and the rule of law. During the past decades, the international community, usually under the auspices of the United Nations, has struggled to negotiate global standards that can help us achieve these essential goals. They include: the abolition of land mines and chemical weapons; an end to the testing, proliferation, and further deployment of nuclear warheads; constraints on global warming; prohibition of the death penalty, at least for children; and an international criminal court to deter and to punish war crimes and genocide. Those agreements already adopted must be fully implemented, and others should be pursued aggressively. We must also strive to correct the injustice of economic sanctions that seek to penalize abusive leaders but all too often inflict punishment on those who are already suffering from the abuse. The unchanging principles of life predate modern times.

I worship Jesus Christ, whom we Christians consider to be the Prince of Peace. As a Jew, he taught us to cross religious boundaries, in service and in love. He repeatedly reached out and embraced Roman conquerors, other Gentiles, and even the more despised Samaritans. Despite theological differences, all great religions share common commitments that define our ideal secular relationships. I am convinced that Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, and others can embrace each other in a common effort to alleviate human suffering and to espouse peace. But the present era is a challenging and disturbing time for those whose lives are shaped by religious faith based on kindness toward each other. We have been reminded that cruel and inhuman acts can be derived from distorted theological beliefs, as suicide bombers take the lives of innocent human beings, draped falsely in the cloak of God's will. With horrible brutality, neighbors have massacred neighbors in Europe, Asia, and Africa. In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents, which is in itself a violation of the beliefs of all religions.

Once we characterize our adversaries as beyond the scope of God's mercy and grace, their lives lose all value. We deny personal responsibility when we plant landmines and, days or years later, a stranger to us - often a child – is crippled or killed. From a great distance, we launch bombs or missiles with almost total impunity, and never want to know the number or identity of the victims. At the beginning of this new millennium I was asked to discuss, here in Oslo, the greatest challenge that the world faces. Among all the possible choices, I decided that the most serious and universal problem is the growing chasm between the richest and poorest people on earth. Citizens of the ten wealthiest countries are now seventy-five times richer than those who live in the ten poorest ones, and the separation is increasing every year, not only between nations but also within them. The results of this disparity are root causes of most of the world's unresolved problems, including starvation, illiteracy, environmental degradation, violent conflict, and unnecessary illnesses that range from Guinea worm to HIV/AIDS. Most work of The Carter Center is in remote villages in the poorest nations of Africa, and there I have witnessed the capacity of destitute people to persevere under heartbreaking conditions.

I have come to admire their judgment and wisdom, their courage and faith, and their awesome accomplishments when given a chance to use their innate abilities. But tragically, in the industrialized world there is a terrible absence of understanding or concern about those who are enduring lives of despair and hopelessness. We have not yet made the commitment to share with others an appreciable part of our excessive wealth. This is a potentially rewarding burden that we should all be willing to assume. Ladies and gentlemen: War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. God gives us the capacity for choice. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must. Thank you. PHOTOS: Former President Jimmy Carter Share Search November 3, 1976: James Earl Carter, 39th President of the United States of America, addressing a meeting at the end of his presidential campaign.

(Photo by Central Press/Getty Images) Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter speaks on stage with a 'Let Us Pull Together' banner during his national campaign, 1976. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) American politician Jimmy Carter looks up while shoveling peanuts on a peanut farm, 1970s. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Photo dated 15 May 1976 of Democratic candidate for the US Presidency Jimmy Carter in Washington, DC. (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images) June 5, 1976: American statesman Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States of America, speaking at a rally in Military Park, Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Brian Alpert/Keystone/Getty Images) Photo dated June 1976 of Democratic candidate for the US Presidency Jimmy Carter during the Democratic National Convention in New York City. (Photo AFP/AFP/Getty Images) Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter embraces his wife Rosalynn after receiving the final news of his victory in the national general election, November 2, 1976.

(Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Democrat Jimmy Carter is sworn in by chief justice Earl Burger as the 39th president of the United States while first lady Rosalynn looks on, Washington DC, January 20, 1977. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) President Jimmy Carter at his desk in the Oval Office, talking to his new Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan, White House, Washington D C, July 19th 1979. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 1977: Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, arrives in Bonn and is greeted by the West German President Walter Scheel. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) Photo of US President Jimmy Carter jogging on the South Lawn of Washington December 13 1978. (Photo KARL SCHUMACHER/AFP/Getty Images) A file photo delivered by the White House in 1978 shows a portrait of US President Jimmy Carter.

AFP PHOTO (KARL SCHUMACHER/AFP/Getty Images) File photo dated 31 January, 1979 shows from right: Chinese modernizer Deng Xiaoping, US First Lady Rosalyn Carter, US President Jimmy Carter and Deng's wife, smiling for the media at the White House in Washington D.C. during the Chinese leader's visit to the US. Jimmy Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 11 October, 2002. A commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering was not only a guiding principle of his single, four-year term as 39th president of the United States, but the cornerstone of The Carter Center he founded 20 years ago to pursue his vision of world diplomacy. AFP PHOTO (AFP/AFP/Getty Images) British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher giving a speech, watched by US President Jimmy Carter and his wife, on her arrival at the White House, Washington DC, December 1979. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Photo taken 13 February 1980 in Washington of President Jimmy Carter speaking at nationally televised Press Conference.

(Photo GENE FORTE/AFP/Getty Images) Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat (back to camera) and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin embrace each other, on September 17, 1978, after signing a peace agreement in the East Room of the White House as US President Jimmy Carter looks on. A year later, with the help of Carter, terms of peace between Egypt and Israel were negotiated at Camp David. A formal treaty, signed 26 March 1979 in Washington, D.C., granted full recognition of Israel by Egypt, opened trade relations between the two counties, and limited Egyptian military buildup in the Sinai. Israel agreed to return to final portion of occupied Sinai to Egypt. (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images) Former President Gerald Ford, U.S. President Bill Clinton, Former President Jimmy Carter and Former President George Bush applaud after the signing of side agreements to the North American Free Trade Agreement 14 September 1993 at the White House in Washington, D.C. The former president added their support to the passing of the main NAFTA agreement.

(Photo LUKE FRAZZA/AFP/Getty Images) Former President Jimmy Carter works August 6, 2001 at a construction site sponsored by the Jimmy Carter Work Project 2001 in Asan, about 60 miles south of Seoul, South Korea. The mission of Habitat for Humanity''s Jimmy Carter Work Project 2001 is to build 136 homes for the poor by local and international volunteers in six sites; Asan, Gunsan, Gyeongsan, Jinju, Paju and Taeback. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images) Former US President Jimmy Carter attends a ceremony in the Rose Garden at the White House 31 July 2001 in Washington,DC. Carter along with former House of Representatives Leader Bob Michel, presented their report, the National Commission on Federal Election Reform, to US President George W. Bush. The two addressed issues which plagued the 2000 presidential election, the closet in US history. (Photo PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images) US President George W.

Bush (R) welcomes Former US President Jimmy Carter, winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize to the Oval Office 18 November, 2002 the White House in Washington, DC. Carter, this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, called 15 November for disarmament by the US, which has taken the lead in urging countries such as North Korea to destroy their weapons of mass destruction and threatened to disarm Iraq by force if it does not do so voluntarily. (Photo TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images) Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter addresses attendees February 21, 2002 during the Development Cooperation Forum at the Carter Center in Atlanta, GA. (Photo by Erik S. Lesser/Getty Images) Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) and former US President Jimmy Carter (L), who came to Gaza as an international election observer, give a press conference 21 January 1996 in Gaza City. Carter, 78, on Friday 11 October 2002 won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for years of tireless effort as an international mediator.

Carter, 78, was honored for "his decades of untiring effort to fin peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development", the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. (Photo RABIH MOGHRABI/AFP/Getty Images) Former US president Jimmy Carter (R) throws the first pitch in a baseball game beside Cuban President Fidel Castro (L) 14 May 2002 in Havana. Carter made a bold push for democratic opening in communist Cuba, urging Castro to let the UN human rights chief visit and calling attention to an unprecedented dissident bid for political change. (Photo ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images) Former US President Jimmy Carter delivers the last speech at the first session of the 1988 Democratic National Convention 18 July 1988 in Atlanta. Carter on Friday 11 October 2002 won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for years of tireless effort as an international mediator.

Carter, 78, was honored for "his decades of untiring effort to fin peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development", the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. (Photo BOB PEARSON/AFP/Getty Images) Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter holds up his Nobel Peace Prize December 10, 2002 in Oslo, Norway. Carter was recognized for many years of public service and urged others to work for peace during his acceptance speech. (Photo by Arne Knudsen/Getty Images) Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter receives a kiss from his wife Rosalynn Carter after a press conference in Plains, GA, 11 October, 2002 where he talked about receiving the Noble Peace Prize. A commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering was not only a guiding principle of his single, four-year term as 39th president of the United States, but the cornerstone of The Carter Center he founded 20 years ago to pursue his vision of world diplomacy. (Photo STEVE SCHAEFER/AFP/Getty Images) Former U.S.

President Jimmy Carter speaks at the opening of Habitat for Humanity International's Global Village & Discovery CenterJune 7, 2003 in Americus, Georgia. The new 6-acre tourist attraction shows both dilapidated shacks and the homes that Habitat for Humanity builds for people around the world. Carter has been a long-time volunteer with the organization. (Photo by Erik S. Lesser/Getty Images) Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States, attends the booksigning for his new book "The Hornet's Nest" at Vromans Bookstore on December 09, 2003 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images) Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalyn attach siding to the front of a Habitat for Humanity home being built June 10, 2003 in LaGrange, Georgia. More than 90 homes are being built in LaGrange; Valdosta, Georgia; and Anniston, Alabama by volunteers as part of Habitat for Humanity International's Jimmy Carter Work Project 2003. (Photo by Erik S.

Lesser/Getty Images) Former President of the United States Jimmy Carter gives a fist pump after throwing the ceremonial first pitch before the start of the San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres game on Opening Day at Petco Park on April 8, 2004 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Donald Miralle/Getty Images) Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter holds up his latest book, "Sharing Good Times" at a book signing on December 9, 2004 at Barnes and Noble Bookstore in New York City. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images) Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter waves to the audience after speaking on opening night of the Democratic National Convention July 26, 2004 at the FleetCenter in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Former US president Jimmy Carter (R) and his wife Rosalynn applaud a villager at the tsunami-devastated village of Thachatchai in Thailand's southern Phuket province, 01 November 2006. Carter and his wife met with members of the fishing community in southern Thailand where 96 houses were rebuilt or repaired by the home-building organization and the villagers after the 2004 deadly tsunami.

(Photo SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images) Former President Jimmy Carter displays his new book, "Our Endangered Values," during a signing at Borders Westwood on November 21, 2005 in Westwood, California. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images) Former US President Jimmy Carter holds a measuring line as he builds a house as part of the 23rd Jimmy Carter Work Project(JCWP) in Patan Village, in Lonavala district some 100 kilometers (63 miles) south east of Mumbai, 30 October 2006. Thousands of volunteers from around the world who have teamed up with the former US President and the JCWP as they construct 100 houses in one week in partnership with families in a village in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. (Photo STR/AFP/Getty Images) Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter works on the 1,000th home to be built by Habitat for Humanity on the Gulf Coast May 21, 2007 in Violet, Louisiana. Carter made waves May 19 when he said that the Bush administration "has been the worst in history", in an interview published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

(Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images) Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter works on the 1,000th home to be built by Habitat for Humanity on the Gulf Coast May 21, 2007 in Violet, Louisiana. Carter made waves May 19 when he said that the Bush administration "has been the worst in history", in an interview published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images) This handout file photo provided by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO) on March 25, 2009, shows Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin (R) addressing the peace treaty signing ceremony as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (L) and U.S. President Jimmy Carter watch on the White House lawn on March 26, 1979 in Washington, DC. Israel and Egypt will mark 30 years since their then leaders signed the historic agreement, making Egypt the first Arab nation to recognize the Jewish State.

(Photo by Ya'akov Sa'ar/GPO via Getty Images) This handout file photo provided by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO) on March 25, 2009, shows Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin (R) and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (L) shaking hands after signing the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty under the watch of U.S. President Jimmy Carter on the White House lawn on March 26, 1979 in Washington, DC. Israel and Egypt will mark 30 years since their then leaders signed the historic agreement, making Egypt the first Arab nation to recognize the Jewish State. (Photo by Ya'akov Sa'ar/GPO via Getty Images) US President George W. Bush (C) stands with President-elect Barack Obama (2nd L), former President George H.W. Bush (L), former President Bill Clinton (2nd R) and former President Jimmy Carter (R) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 7, 2009.

Bush, acting on a suggestion by Obama, invited the former Presidents and President-elect for lunch, the first time since 1981 that all living presidents have been together at the White House. (Photo SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) Former US President Jimmy Carter visits a housing project on November 8, 2011 in Leogane (33 Km in the south of Port-au-Prince) which built by Carter Foundation for 500 families, victims of the last quake on January 12 2010 in Port-au-Prince. (Photo THONY BELIZAIRE/AFP/Getty Images) Former US president Jimmy Carter listen to a guide as he tours East Jerusalem, on October 22, 2012, during the second day of a visit by "The Elders", a group of global leaders focused on human rights. (Photo AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images) Former US president Jimmy Carter listens to a question during a press conference in the capital Cairo on January 13, 2012.

The Carter Center is one of the few monitoring groups to have had a license to witness Egypt's first post-revolution election, in which the country's two main Islamist parties have scored a crushing victory. (Photo AMRO MARAGHI/AFP/Getty Images) Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaks at the Commonwealth Club of California on February 24, 2013 in San Francisco, California. Former President Carter delivered a speech and took questions from the audience during a Commonwealth Club of California event at the Herbst Theatre. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) US President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and former US Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter wave during the Let Freedom Ring Commemoration and Call to Action to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC on August 28, 2013. Thousands will gather on the mall on the anniversary of the march and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

(Photo SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) Former US President Jimmy Carter speaks during a news conference, held at the end of a three-day visit to the formerly military-ruled country by the group known as "The Elders", for talks with reformist President Thein Sein, religious leaders and civil society groups in Yangon on September 26, 2013. Former world leaders led by ex-US president Jimmy Carter appealed on September 26 for an end to impunity over a wave of anti-Muslim attacks in Myanmar. (Photo Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images) Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter (R) speaks while campaigning for Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate and State Sen. Jason Carter (2nd L) as his wife Kate Carter (L) and grandmother former first lady Rosalynn Carter look on at Emmanuel Christian Community Church on October 27, 2014 in Columbus, Georgia. Jason Carter is running against the Republican incumbent Georgia Republican Gov. Nathan Deal.

(Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images) Former US President Jimmy Carter signs copies of his new book "A Call To Action Women, Religion, Violence, And Power" at Barnes & Noble, 5th Avenue on March 25, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images) Former President Jimmy Carter attends "Countdown To Zero: Defeating Disease" preview press conference at American Museum of Natural History on January 12, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew Toth/Getty Images) Former President Jimmy Carter speaks onstage at the 25th anniversary MusiCares 2015 Person Of The Year Gala honoring Bob Dylan at the Los Angeles Convention Center on February 6, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. The annual benefit raises critical funds for MusiCares' Emergency Financial Assistance and Addiction Recovery programs. For more information visit musicares.org. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for NARAS) Former US President Jimmy Carter is pictured during a meeting with Norwegian Prime Minister in Oslo on June 19, 2014.

Carter attended the Oslo Forum which is regarded as the leading international network of armed conflict mediation practitioners. (Photo POPPE, CORNELIUS/AFP/Getty Images) Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter (L) and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter attend the 25th anniversary MusiCares 2015 Person Of The Year Gala honoring Bob Dylan at the Los Angeles Convention Center on February 6, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. The annual benefit raises critical funds for MusiCares' Emergency Financial Assistance and Addiction Recovery programs. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter promotes his book "Full Life: Reflections at Ninety" at Barnes & Noble, 5th Avenue on July 7, 2015 in New York City. Carter was 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize.

(Photo by D Dipasupil/Getty Images) ‹ Baptist leaders pray for Jimmy Carter Baptist leaders pray for Jimmy Carter August 13, 2015 By Bob Allen / Baptist News Global ATLANTA (BNG)—Condolences and well-wishes worldwide followed an Aug. 12 announcement by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter that he has cancer. “Recent liver surgery revealed that I have cancer that now is in other parts of my body,” the 39th president and Nobel Peace Prize winner said in a brief statement on the Carter Center website. “I will be rearranging my schedule as necessary so I can undergo treatment by physicians at Emory Healthcare. A more complete public statement will be made when facts are known, possibly next week.” Along with his diplomatic and humanitarian work through the Carter Center and his volunteer work with Habitat for Humanity, the 90-year-old former president is famous for his Baptist faith. Running for president in 1976, he introduced the term “born again” Christian into America’s political lexicon, got into hot water for telling Playboy magazine he had “lusted” in his heart and joined First Baptist Church in Washington the first Sunday he moved to town.

An active post-presidency After leaving office, Carter became well known for teaching Sunday school at his home congregation, Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga. In recent years, he spearheaded, along with his longtime friend and one-time Southern Baptist Convention President Jimmy Allen, a New Baptist Covenant movement aimed at uniting U.S. Baptists long fragmented over matters of race, region and doctrine. Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Executive Coordinator Suzii Paynter offered her condolences and prayers. “I am deeply saddened by the news of President Carter’s condition,” Paynter said. “He is a true Baptist hero and has committed his life to living faithfully, championing human rights for all and encouraging peace and acceptance. As a Baptist family, we come around President Carter, his family and his church family with prayers for healing and comfort in this difficult moment.” New Baptist Covenant Coordinator Hannah McMahan requested prayer for Carter and his family as he takes the next steps and begins treatment. 'A champion for others' “Throughout his life, President Carter has been a champion for others,” McMahan said. “He has brought peace where there is war, light where there is darkness, and hope where there is despair.

He has certainly pushed us to move forward in this ministry of racial reconciliation and justice in the Baptist family. President Carter never ceases to lift up the people around him. It is now our turn to lift him up and undergird him and Mrs. Carter with our prayers and support during this challenging time.” Maranatha Baptist Church posted a message online thanking all who have offered thoughts and prayers about Carter’s diagnosis. “Throughout his many years of Christian service, President Carter has taught us much about having resilient faith in the midst of life’s trials and challenges,” the church said. “In the same way, Maranatha Baptist Church strongly believes that God’s Spirit will be present with ‘Mr. Jimmy’ during his upcoming treatment.” Best wishes from President Obama President Obama released a statement on behalf of himself and the first lady, conveying the couple’s “best wishes to President Carter for a fast and full recovery.” “Our thoughts and prayers are with Rosalynn and the entire Carter family as they face this challenge with the same grace and determination that they have shown so many times before,” Obama said.

“Jimmy, you’re as resilient as they come, and along with the rest of America, we are rooting for you.” 1000+ images about Jimmy Carter #39 on Pinterest | Symbionese liberation army, Walter mondale and Nobel peace prize Pinterest • The world’s catalog of ideas Jimmy Carter #39 Jimmy Carter (Democratic) was the thirty-ninth President of the United States from 1977-1981. His Vice President was Walter Mondale. 69 Pins308 Followers Baptist leaders pray for Jimmy Carter – Baptist News Global News Bob Allen | August 13, 2015 By Bob Allen Condolences and well-wishes worldwide followed an Aug. 12 announcement by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter that he has cancer. “Recent liver surgery revealed that I have cancer that now is in other parts of my body,” the 39th president and Nobel Peace Prize winner said in a brief statement on the Carter Center website. “I will be rearranging my schedule as necessary so I can undergo treatment by physicians at Emory Healthcare.

A more complete public statement will be made when facts are known, possibly next week.” Along with his diplomatic and humanitarian work through the Carter Center and his volunteer work with Habitat for Humanity, the 90-year-old former president is famous for his Baptist faith. Running for president in 1976, he introduced the term “born again” Christian into America’s political lexicon, got into hot water for telling Playboy magazine he had “lusted” in his heart and joined First Baptist Church in Washington the first Sunday he moved to town. After leaving office Carter became well known for teaching Sunday school at his home church, Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga. A lifelong Southern Baptist, he renounced ties with the Southern Baptist Convention in 2000 and shifted allegiance to more moderate groups including the Decatur, Ga.-based Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. In recent years he spearheaded, along with his longtime friend and one-time SBC President Jimmy Allen, a New Baptist Covenant movement aimed at uniting U.S. Baptists long fragmented over matters of race, region and doctrine. CBF Executive Coordinator Suzii Paynter offered condolences and prayers on behalf of Cooperative Baptists Aug. 13.

“I am deeply saddened by the news of President Carter’s condition,” Paynter said. “He is a true Baptist hero and has committed his life to living faithfully, championing human rights for all and encouraging peace and acceptance. As a Baptist family, we come around President Carter, his family and his church family with prayers for healing and comfort in this difficult moment.” New Baptist Covenant Coordinator Hannah McMahan requested prayer for Carter and his family as he takes the next steps and begins treatment. “Throughout his life, President Carter has been a champion for others,” McMahan said. “He has brought peace where there is war, light where there is darkness, and hope where there is despair. He has certainly pushed us to move forward in this ministry of racial reconciliation and justice in the Baptist family. President Carter never ceases to lift up the people around him. It is now our turn to lift him up and undergird him and Mrs. Carter with our prayers and support during this challenging time.” Maranatha Baptist Church posted a message online thanking all who have offered thoughts and prayers about Carter’s diagnosis. “Throughout his many years of Christian service, President Carter has taught us much about having resilient faith in the midst of life’s trials and challenges,” the church said.

“In the same way, Maranatha Baptist Church strongly believes that God’s Spirit will be present with ‘Mr. Jimmy’ during his upcoming treatment.” President Obama released a s tatement on behalf of he and the first lady conveying the couple’s “best wishes to President Carter for a fast and full recovery.” “Our thoughts and prayers are with Rosalynn and the entire Carter family as they face this challenge with the same grace and determination that they have shown so many times before,” Obama said. “Jimmy, you’re as resilient as they come, and along with the rest of America, we are rooting for you.” Jimmy Carter: “Friend” of Israel and the Jews > Shai Afsai Jimmy Carter: “Friend” of Israel and the Jews by Shai Afsai (September 2012) During a January 2007 lecture at the University of Georgia, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter lamented the criticism he received following the publication of Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid: “I have been called a liar. I have been called an anti-Semite. I have been called a bigot. I have been called a plagiarist.

I have been called a coward” (“Carter Calls His Mideast Book ‘Accurate,’” Washington Post, 1/21/2007). Setting aside the fourth of these accusations — that of plagiarism — there should no longer remain any doubt as to the accuracy of the others. Despite having successfully propped himself up as a moral authority in the eyes of many Americans, Carter is in fact a liar, an antisemite, a bigot, and a coward. This was true prior to 2007 and remains the case today. Carter the Liar Carter has helped spread the lie that Israel held thousands of Lebanese prisoners immediately prior to the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah (the Second Lebanon War), and that this was a cause, if not a justification, for the Hezbollah attacks on Israel that precipitated that conflict. He did so in a Washington Post op-ed written in the midst of the war (“Stop the Band-Aid Treatment,” 8/1/2006). Summarizing the outbreak of the conflict and what he thought must be done to end it, Carter wrote: “Hezbollah militants . . .

killed three Israeli soldiers and captured two others, and insisted on Israel’s withdrawal from disputed territory and an exchange for some of the several thousand incarcerated Lebanese.” This was a remarkable claim, not only because it was entirely false (although others, such as the pro-Hezbollah British politician George Galloway, whose words often dovetail Carter’s, have repeated similar falsehoods), but also because even Hezbollah and the Lebanese government did not charge Israel with holding more than a few Lebanese prisoners. Hassan Nasrallah, for example, in a speech aired on Al-Manar TV (11/25/2005) stated that “some prisoners remained” in Israel following a 2004 prisoner exchange, while Nawar al-Sahili, a Hezbollah Member of Parliament, was more specific, telling BBC News (“ Who are the Mid-East prisoners? ”) that Israel still held four Lebanese men. One of these four prisoners was an Israeli citizen of Lebanese origin who had been arrested in Israel and sentenced to six years in prison for spying for Hezbollah. Another “prisoner” was a Lebanese fisherman whose disappearance at sea Hezbollah has decided, on and off, to blame on Israel.

Without a doubt, the most prominent prisoner was Samir Kuntar, a popular and celebrated Lebanese hero who, along with three other terrorists, had infiltrated into Israel in 1979. Having crossed the border, Kuntar began by shooting and killing Eliyahu Shahar, an Israeli policeman. He then broke into the home of the Haran family, taking Danny Haran and his four-year old daughter, Einat, hostage. Kuntar later murdered Danny Haran, shooting him in front of Einat, whom he then killed by smashing her skull with the butt of his rifle. Smadar Haran had managed to hide in a crawl space with her younger daughter, two-year old Yael, but she inadvertently suffocated Yael while attempting to prevent the terrorists from discovering them. These were the prisoners held by Israel prior to the outbreak of the Second Lebanon War, according to both Hezbollah and the Lebanese government. (Four Hezbollah fighters were subsequently taken prisoner during the war itself).

Carter, however, charged Israel with holding “several thousand” Lebanese, pronouncing in the fifth paragraph of his Washington Post op-ed that “Israel should withdraw from all Lebanese territory, including Shebaa Farms, and release the Lebanese prisoners,” including Samir Kuntar. In the third paragraph of his op-ed, Carter notes Hezbollah’s desire that Israel withdraw from the “disputed territory” of Shebaa Farms; by Carter’s fifth paragraph, however, Hezbollah’s desire that Israel relinquish this territory to Lebanon is revealed to be his own as well. According to Carter, Hezbollah’s claims are correct: Shebaa Farms is “Lebanese territory” and “Israel should withdraw” from it. This position is also found in Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” where Carter claims that in May 2000 Israel withdrew “almost completely from Lebanon after eighteen years of occupation, retaining its presence only in Shebaa Farms.” Carter states this despite the fact that the United Nations has concluded multiple times that Israel withdrew fully from all Lebanese territory in 2000, that Israel no longer occupies any Lebanese territory, and that Shebaa Farms is not considered Lebanese territory according to international law.

At a 2002 press conference in Madrid, for example, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan reiterated: “The Security Council itself confirmed in June 2000 that Israel had withdrawn from southern Lebanon in compliance with UN Security Council resolutions 425 and 426.” This fact, however, just like the actual number of Lebanese prisoners held in Israel in 2006, is of no concern to Carter. In addition to advocating for Hezbollah, Carter has also appointed himself an unofficial Hamas spokesperson, attempting to positively portray its Gaza government to the American public. In the past, when the Palestine Liberation Organization’s star was on the rise and its leader alive, he undertook to perform a similar function for Yasser Arafat; lately it has been Hamas’s turn to benefit from Carter’s saintly image and public relations skills. Part of this task involves excusing or denying Hamas’s terrorism.

As Joshua Muravchik has pointed out in Commentary (“Our Worst Ex-President,” 2/2007), Carter claims in Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid that Hamas “meticulously observed a cease-fire commitment” and “since August of 2004 has not committed a single act of terrorism that cost an Israeli life.” Hamas, however, has been more honest than Carter about its military activities. “As it happens,” Muravchik observes, “Hamas announces its operations on its websites and elsewhere. In the time frame Carter specifies, Hamas claimed responsibility for fifteen terror attacks that killed 26 Israelis: two young children and eleven other civilians, and thirteen soldiers.” Even when admitting to acts of violence on the part of Palestinian groups, Carter is so intent on exonerating them from any wrongdoing that his descriptions inevitably descend into a mixture of half-truths and outright inaccuracies.

So it is with this account he gave of the June 2006 killing of two Israeli soldiers, the wounding of four others, and the abduction of a sixth (Gilad Shalit, who was held hostage for over five years), near the Gaza Strip: “Another thing I’ve heard Professor [Allan] Dershowitz mention is the holding of the Israeli soldier captured by Palestinians from — by digging a tunnel under the Wall to escape from Gaza — where they captured one, an Israeli soldier, and that’s true” (“Jimmy Carter on Conflict in the Middle East,” NPR interview, 11/27/2006). Carter (rather incoherently) concedes that an Israeli soldier was captured (“that’s true”), but according to his contorted account, the Palestinian attackers were actually trying “to escape from Gaza,” rather than infiltrating Israel for the purpose of killing and kidnapping. Perhaps because it sounds more severe, he also insists there is a wall between the Gaza Strip and Israel, although the barrier separating the two is a fence.

Carter the Antisemite; Carter the Bigot Someone who attempts to deny the reality of Jews being killed — whether by the Nazis sixty-odd years ago, or by Hamas in the last few — is an antisemite. It makes no difference if the person making such revisionist statements is a former U.S. President with a Nobel Peace Prize, or a current Iranian President with nuclear ambitions. There is always an ulterior motive for such lying. In the case of Carter’s defense of Hamas, it is part of his attempt to whitewash an overtly antisemitic Islamist group that believes (according to “The Covenant of Hamas,” Articles Seven, Twenty-two, Twenty-Eight, and Thirty-Two) that “The Day of Judgment will not come about until” the killing of the Jews; that the Jews “were behind the French Revolution, the Communist revolution . . . World War I . . .

World War II”; that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is not a forgery, but rather proof of the Jews’ nefarious intentions; and that by their very existence, “Israel, Judaism and Jews challenge Islam and the Moslem people.” In response to the charges of antisemitism and bigotry that followed the publication of Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, Carter claimed (as he continues to do) that on the contrary, he has been consistently preoccupied with Israel’s well-being and safety: “Well I think if you look at the history of my public career of the last thirty years, the preeminent goal that I’ve had in my mind has been to bring peace to the people of Israel. And I’ve worked on this without cessation during my adult life in politics” (“In Depth with Jimmy Carter,” C-SPAN 2, 12/3/2006).

Part of fulfilling this “preeminent goal,” apparently, has been Carter’s declaration on Al Jazeera TV (1/14/2007) that when it comes to Palestinian rockets, which are intentionally aimed and fired at Jewish towns and cities in Israel, “I don’t consider — I wasn’t equating the Palestinian missiles with terrorism.” He followed this exoneration of rocket attacks with a criticism of suicide bombings, though not on moral grounds. Rather, he saw suicide bombings as problematic because they turn “the world away from sympathy and support for the Palestinian people.” Palestinian rockets posed no such problem for the Palestinian cause, and therefore Carter, in his overwhelming concern for the people of Israel, was careful not to pass judgment on their use.

Alan Dershowitz has also noted (“Why won't Carter debate his book?” The Boston Globe, 12/21/2006) that Carter considers Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan to be his “personal friend,” and has accepted money as well as an award from him: This is the same Zayed, the long-time ruler of the United Arab Emirates, whose $2.5 million gift to the Harvard Divinity School was returned in 2004 due to Zayed’s rampant Jew-hatred. Zayed’s personal foundation, the Zayed Center, claims that it was Zionists, rather than Nazis, who ‘were the people who killed the Jews in Europe’ during the Holocaust. It has held lectures on the blood libel and conspiracy theories about Jews and America perpetrating Sept. 11.

And, as The New York Post has pointed out (“Jimmy for Terror,” 1/15/2007), Carter’s idea of bringing peace, as outlined in Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, implicitly allows “the general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups” to continue “the suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism” until “international laws and the ultimate goals of the Roadmap for Peace are accepted by Israel.” When that happens, it may be imperative, according to Carter, that the Arab community and Palestinian groups announce that they will no longer engage in terrorism, but in his book he appears to believe there is absolutely no need to cease killing Israelis by various means before then. Thus, with Carter traversing the globe, writing, lecturing, defending Hamas and Hezbollah, and tirelessly trying “to bring peace to the people of Israel,” those desiring the Jewish State’s destruction and attempting to murder its citizens can be certain of having a well-respected mouthpiece to advance their aims. Under intense criticism, Carter, during his lecture at Brandeis University (1/23/2007), revised his position on the acceptability of terrorism against Israelis.

This was hardly heartening, however, as he refused — and continues to refuse — to admit to a single additional error on his part about Israel, or to any other misleading notions in Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. As reported on NPR (“Jimmy Carter Defends Peace Not Apartheid,” 1/25/2007): “In that [Brandeis] appearance, the former president defended the book’s accuracy, save one passage Carter now calls ‘terribly worded,’ that seemed to justify terrorism by Palestinians on Israeli citizens.” When asked on NPR if the “terribly worded” statement sent him “flipping through the pages of the book to see if there is anything else there that wasn’t expressed the way you had intended,” Carter responded: “I don’t believe so.” Perhaps Carter is incapable of believing otherwise. Like the Hezbollah and Hamas terrorists for whom he is an apologist, and like his personal friend Sheik Zayed, Carter is certain he is doing God’s word by assailing Israel.

He differs from them, though, in one essential respect: Carter duplicitously claims that his actions are actually motivated by a desire “to bring peace to the people of Israel.” Carter the Coward Rather than engage in any serious public debate or candid discussion in which he might be compelled to admit to at least some ignorance, errors, misstatements, and biased pronouncements about Israel and the Middle East, Carter has chosen to cloak himself in the garments of a martyr. Carter has claimed (“How I See Palestine”/“Speaking frankly about Israel and Palestine,” Los Angeles Times, 12/8/2006): For the last 30 years, I have witnessed and experienced the severe restraints on any free and balanced discussion of the facts [concerning Israel] . . . My most troubling experience has been the rejection of my offers to speak, for free, about the book [Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid] on university campuses with high Jewish enrollment and to answer questions from students and professors. Yet, when invited to debate Professor Dershowitz at Brandeis University, a campus with high Jewish enrollment, Carter declared, “I don’t want to have a conversation even indirectly with Dershowitz.

There is no need . . . to debate somebody who, in my opinion, knows nothing about the situation in Palestine” (“Carter invite fizzles,” Boston Globe, 12/14/2006). When Carter did finally go to Brandeis, it was on condition that he would not have to debate, and Dershowitz was not allowed into the lecture hall until after Carter’s departure. Nor has Carter since agreed to debate anyone else. As Dershowitz noted then: “Carter’s refusal to debate wouldn’t be so strange if it weren’t for the fact that he claims that he wrote the book precisely so as to start debate over the issue of the Israel-Palestine peace process.” Of course, Carter has his apologists as well. “Jimmy Carter is speaking the truth as he knows it, and doing a great service to the Jews,” according to Tikkun editor Michael Lerner. “It’s time to create a new openness to criticism and a new debate. Jimmy Carter has shown courage in trying to open that kind of space with his new book [Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid], and he deserves our [i.e.

the Jews’] warm thanks and support” (“Thank you, Jimmy Carter,” tompaine.com, 12/6/2006). Nonetheless, surveying Jimmy Carter’s conduct leads one to the gloomy conclusion that a man may become President of the United States, play a role in finalizing a peace treaty between two warring Middle Eastern countries, win the Nobel Peace Prize, support Habitat for Humanity, and monitor elections across the globe, but at bottom remain dishonest, unscrupulous, and prejudiced. Can such a person change? In December 2009, Carter sent a brief message to the Jewish community through the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. He seemed aware of having acted inappropriately and unfairly towards Israel, and suggested he might behave differently in the future: We must recognize Israel’s achievements under difficult circumstances, even as we strive in a positive way to help Israel continue to improve its relations with its Arab populations, but we must not permit criticisms for improvement to stigmatize Israel.

As I would have noted at Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, but which is appropriate at any time of the year, I offer an Al Het [a request for forgiveness of sin] for any words or deeds of mine that may have done so. Alas, these soon turned out to be empty words. Carter’s apparent shift was as short-lived as it was surprising, and he soon returned to form, prompting Abraham H. Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League to wonder, “Jimmy Carter: Have You No Shame?” (The Huffington Post, 10/28/2010): It was only nine months ago that former President Jimmy Carter issued an open letter to the American Jewish community asking for forgiveness for the pain he had caused by his comments which may have stigmatized Israel. Mr. Carter went on to imply that he would avoid in the future the kind of biased remarks about the Jewish state that have been his hallmark for so long. . . . On Mr. Carter’s most recent visit to the Middle East his actions and comments were so problematic that one would hardly have known that he had publicly expressed contrition only months before . . .

The majority and intensity of his criticisms during his visit to the region were directed at Israel. The Israeli blockade of Gaza was deemed illegal and an obstacle to peace and the fact that Hamas remains a terrorist entity committed to Israel’s destruction was not mentioned while he called for its involvement in peace negotiations. . . . In sum, by any objective measurement, Mr. Carter has gone back on his public word to the Jewish community not to stigmatize the Jewish state. In an earlier letter written to Carter in February 2010, responding to Carter’s offer to continue discussions with the ADL, Foxman wrote: “I do not believe further discussions between us will be fruitful. I continue to hope the day will come when you have truly repented of your insensitive views of Israel and the Jewish people.” Indeed, one may hope for this, but there is every reason to doubt such a day will come. More recently, a class action lawsuit was filed in New York against Carter and Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid publisher Simon & Schuster, charging that although it “was promoted by them both as a work non-fiction, deserving of special weight and consideration because of Carter’s standing as a former President . . .

the book is filled with demonstrable falsehoods, omissions, and knowing misrepresentations intended to promote Carter’s agenda of anti-Israel propaganda . . .” Whether or not such a lawsuit is an apt means of exposing Carter’s mendacity, Simon & Schuster’s initial response about the lawsuit to Tablet Magazine (“Carter Sued Over ‘Apartheid’ Book,” 2/2/2011) is disturbing: “This lawsuit is a frivolous and transparent attempt by the plaintiffs, despite their protestations to the contrary, to punish the author, a Nobel Peace prize-winner and world-renowned statesmen, and his publisher, for writing and publishing a book with which the plaintiffs simply disagree. It is a chilling attack on free speech that we intend to defend vigorously.” While Carter is indeed a Nobel Peace prize-winner and a world-renowned statesman, this fact does not, as Simon & Schuster implies, make him or his publisher above reproach. Aside from any lawsuit against him, and any related freedom of speech issues, his prize-winning and statesmanship must not be allowed to obscure the fact that Carter is also a liar, an antisemite, a bigot, and a coward.

He has been greatly honored for the former accomplishments and is now deserving of all the contempt that attaches to the latter grim faults. Shai Afsai lives in Providence. His article "'The bride is beautiful, but she is married to another man': Historical Fabrication and an Anti-Zionist Myth" appears in the latest issue of Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. To comment on this article, please click here . To help New English Review continue to publish interesting articles such as this one, please click here . Most Recent posts at The Iconoclast 01/18/2017 UPDATE: Jimmy Carter says doctors find no new cancer growth UPDATE: Jimmy Carter says doctors find no new cancer growth Posted: Tue 3:04 PM, Nov 10, 2015 UPDATED Tuesday, November 10, 2015---3:04 p.m. ATLANTA (AP) -- Jimmy Carter says recent tests have found he's responding well to treatment for cancer. Carter's spokeswoman Deanna Congileo says that the former president's doctors have found no evidence of new tumors. The 91-year-old former U.S.

president announced in August that he had been diagnosed with cancer and doctors had found tumors on his brain. Carter received a radiation treatment for those tumors and also received doses of a recently approved auto-immune drug to help his body seek out and destroy cancer cells. Congileo says in the statement released Tuesday that tests will continue. Copyright 2015: Associated Press ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATED: Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015 --- 9:20 a.m. (NBC News)---Former President Jimmy Carter is slated to begin radiation treatment for several melanoma spots on his brain Thursday afternoon, he said at a news conference in Atlanta. Carter, 90, told reporters he had a mass removed from his liver on Aug. 3, which he learned was melanoma. Asked how he felt when he learned of the diagnosis, Carter said: "I just thought I had a few weeks left. But I was surprisingly at ease. I've had a wonderful life, I've had thousands of friends, and I've had an exciting and adventurous and gratifying existence. So I was surprisingly at ease." "I'll be prepared for anything that comes," he added. His family has a history of pancreatic cancer.

His father, both his sisters and his brother died of pancreatic cancer, and his mother had pancreatic cancer as well. Carter, who has been active since leaving the Oval Office, has worked with groups such as Habitat for Humanity, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 and founding the nonprofit Carter Center in his home state of Georgia. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATED Thursday, August 13, 2015---10:23 a.m. (NBC NEWS)---Former President Jimmy Carter says he has cancer that has spread, although it's not yet clear what kind of cancer he has. Carter, 90, had a mass removed from his liver on Aug. 3. "Recent liver surgery revealed that I have cancer that now is in other parts of my body. I will be rearranging my schedule as necessary so I can undergo treatment by physicians at Emory Healthcare. A more complete public statement will be made when facts are known, possibly next week," Carter said in a statement. James Earl Carter Jr. was 39th president of the United States, from 1977 to 1981.

He's kept active despite his age, working with groups such as Habitat for Humanity, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 and founding the nonprofit Carter Center in his home state of Georgia. Carter's family has a history of pancreatic cancer. His father, both his sisters and his brother died of pancreatic cancer, and his mother had pancreatic cancer as well. In 2007, Carter told The New York Times that he had CT scans twice a year and later MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) to look for tumors in his pancreas. In May, Carter left Guyana early from a stint monitoring elections there, saying he was feeling unwell. Pancreatic cancer can spread to other organs, including the liver, and cancer can also originate in the liver and spread elsewhere. Carter did not give details of what type of cancer he has or how far it has spread. However, when cancer spreads from one organ to elsewhere in the body, it is considered Stage IV cancer -- the most advanced stage. Stage IV cancer is generally incurable, although it can be treated, depending on the type. Dr.

Robert Mayer, a gastrointestinal cancer specialist at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, says that at age 90, Jimmy Carter is unlikely to tolerate much treatment. There are many different possible cancers that Carter could have, Mayer said. "I really don't know from paucity of information which of these would be the situation for President Carter. I don't know what his symptoms were. I don't know what led to surgery on his liver," Mayer told NBC News. "This is a 90-year-old gentleman with apparent widespread disease. The goals of treatment would be his comfort. If chemo is considered it would need to take into account his age." Mayer says a 90-year-old patient cannot tolerate the same treatment that could buy years of life for cancer patients in their 60s or 70s. Statements of support poured in, including from President Barack Obama. "Our thoughts and prayers are with Rosalynn and the entire Carter family as they face this challenge with the same grace and determination that they have shown so many times before," Obama's statement read.

"Jimmy, you're as resilient as they come, and along with the rest of America, we are rooting for you." Copyright 2015: NBC News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted Wednesday, August 12, 2015---3:41 p.m. ATLANTA (AP) -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says he has cancer and will undergo treatment at an Atlanta hospital. Carter announced the diagnosis in a statement from the Carter Center on Wednesday afternoon. Carter, 90, had surgery earlier this month to remove a small mass in his liver. He says in Wednesday's statement that the surgery revealed the cancer. Carter says he will rearrange his schedule to be treated at Emory Healthcare. He says a more complete public statement will be issued next week when more details are known. Carter was the nation's 39th president. After leaving the White House, he founded the center in Atlanta in 1982 to promote health care, democracy and other issues globally.

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Question: What former U.S. president, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, is known for his staunch support of Habitat for Humanity?
Answer: Jimmy Carter