As president, Jimmy Carter brokered the peace agreement that removed Israel’s most powerful enemy from the battlefield.

Carter met with a group of rabbis who contested his use of the word “apartheid” to describe Israel. And then he went a step further.

The late centenarian, Jimmy Carter, occupied a difficult position in the line of imperial magistrates we know as US Presidents.  Coming to power in the aftermath of murderous US adventurism in Indochina and the debauching of the presidency by Richard Nixon (“when the president does it,

Former President Carter was widely known as a man of faith, a born-again Christian who defined himself as a progressive evangelical.

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter finished one of his greatest accomplishments. He brokered peace between Israel and Egypt -- the first time that happened with any Middle Eastern country.

Jimmy Carter, who passed away at 100, brokered the Camp David Accords, a historic peace between Israel and Egypt. Despite his efforts, he later drew ire by labeling Israel's West Bank policies as apartheid.

The Carter family has invited the public to participate in several public viewings and funeral processions planned in both Georgia and Washington, D.C. over the next six days. On

Carter's most significant achievement was his announcement on Dec 15, 1978, that the US and the People's Republic of China had agreed to establish diplomatic ties on Jan 1, 1979. He emphasized that the US recognized the government of the PRC as the sole legal government of China.

Jimmy Carter's presidency epitomized a values-based foreign policy for the United States-for better and for worse. The post Jimmy Carter's Values-Based Foreign Policy Wasn't a Failure appeared first on World Politics Review.

The president who brokered a peace deal between Israel and its most powerful opponent, Egypt, became a sharp critic of Israel's treatment of Palestinians in the occupied territories.

By failing to fully appreciate the asymmetry between a democratic state defending itself against terrorism and an organization committed to that state’s annihilation, Carter’s advocacy often did more harm than good.