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.
As president, Jimmy Carter brokered the peace agreement that removed Israel’s most powerful enemy from the battlefield.
Former President Jimmy Carter was widely known as a man of faith, a born-again Christian who defined himself as a progressive evangelical.
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.
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 […]
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 ...
Forging peace between Israel and Egypt required actions more morally nebulous than simple truth-telling and law-obeying from President Carter
We will always remember President Carter’s role in forging the first Arab-Israeli peace treaty signed by Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, a peace ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that late US president Jimmy Carter will be remembered for brokering peace between Israel and Egypt which has offered "hope for future generations".
Jimmy Carter became known for his post-presidential work as a humanitarian, but don't overlook his achievements while in office.
Carter, 100, the nation’s 39th president who died on Sunday, famously brokered a Middle East peace deal between Israel and Egypt in 1978, normalized relationships with mainland China that began earlier in the 1970s when Richard Nixon visited the communist country, and signed a treaty that gave Panama control of the Panama Canal.