Jimmy Carter says Netanyahu has turned his back on peace
At his press conference today at the Carter Center, President Jimmy Carter announced he is being treated for cancer in his brain and he will accept whatever comes in months or years ahead (years, let’s hope!). He was asked about his top priorities “in the time that you have left,” the problems whose resolution would give him “the greatest satisfaction for the world.” [Minute 35 below]
In international affairs, I would say that peace for Israel and its neighbors has been a top priority of my foreign policy projects for the past thirty years. Right now I think the prospects are more dismal than any time I can remember in the last 50 years. There’s practically– the whole process is practically dormant. The government of Israel has no desire for a two-state solution, which is the policy of all the other nations in the world. And the United States has practically no influence compared to past years in either Israel or Palestine. So I feel very discouraged about it, but that would be my number one foreign policy hope.
Source: mondoweiss.net