America has always used a blend of hard power and soft power. We both flex and listen. With the stakes this high, we will ...
Although the ceasefire agreement is a much-needed lifeline for Gaza, there is a lot of skepticism regarding it. Past agreements like the Camp David and Oslo accords demonstrate that achieving peace ...
This cease-fire is still fragile, and working toward a Palestinian solution and a wider Mideast accord will require intense ...
However, the consensus soon collapsed after the Likud came to power in Israel, and the process that led to the Camp David ...
Jimmy Carter recently passed away at 100 years old. His legacy is that he brought Israel and Egypt together for a lasting ...
Take, for example, the late President Jimmy Carter’s historic peace-accords meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at Camp David back in September 1978.
It was to be no surprise that Rabin’s more hawkish successor as Prime Minister, Menachem Begin of Likud, was at odds with the “Carter Plan.” Less obvious was that Egypt’s Anwar Sadat would ...
Jimmy Carter was not your stereotypical politician. He was a deeply religious man and more of a moral leader than a political one. I had the good fortune to interview him on three occasions and to ...
In November 2010, former President Jimmy Carter visited my office in the White House, where I had just taken up the post of national security adviser. It was a reunion of sorts: at age 22, I had begun ...
Carter's efforts led to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's landmark visit to Jerusalem and saw U.S. negotiators eventually wear down the famously hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
In September 1978, with Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin, President Carter brokered the framework for peace between Egypt and Israel called the Camp David Accords. Carter, in a break from U.S ...