A big-hearted US President dedicated to peace

[bemildred]

EARLIER this month, I had the privilege of spending quality time exchanging ideas with President Carter and his wife Rosalynn at the Carter Center in Atlanta as well as at Illinois College, Jacksonville, where he came at my invitation to initiate ‘Pathways to Peace’ — a proposal designed to find solutions for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, an issue afflicting our region and the West.

Regularly held seminars involving 12 Illinois College students and faculty members will be held in the spring of 2015 so that participants can study methods of resolving ethnic, cultural and religious conflicts with a view to nurturing fresh ideas on how to bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Students will travel to Jordan, Palestine and Israel to meet with other students and decision-makers and to garner their opinions. Final papers will be presented to me in Dubai for evaluation.

“I really think the problem is we don’t see other people’s points of views,” was the insightful message from Illinois College President Barbara Farley. “We just try to push our own. So we need to get people over there to see what’s going on and then say how can we change what’s going on over there based on their beliefs not on our beliefs.”

Having President Carter on board gives this initiative impetus and the gravitas it deserves. Thank you, Mr. President, for answering the call without hesitation and for being an outstanding leadership role model at a time when true leadership is sorely lacking worldwide. While you are out there, working hard to assist the poor and disenfranchised, unafraid to speak the truth about the plight of the Palestinians, others make meaningless diplomatic noises. Presidents, Prime Ministers and human rights organisations are big on talk but do anything to back-up their words. You make a difference.

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1. K&R

[yurbud]

2. before I even clicked on the title, I knew it wouldn't be the current or recent ones...

or if it was, it would be satire.

[bemildred]

3. Had to be Carter.

A perfect example of the adage that the best revenge is living well. Jimmy is doing fine. All his enemies are dead or living in fear of the consequences of their narcissistic follies.

[yurbud]

4. I wish that were true about his enemies. Their hubris probably lets them sleep at night.

[bemildred]

5. Better than Jimmy?

Jimmy goes in the history books somewheres just below Mother Theresa. Cheney gets to be a combo of Metternich and Machievelli. People will be writing hagiographies about St. James of the Carter when Cheney is a footnote about what not to do.

[Jefferson23]

6. Searching for a heart of gold? That's Jimmy Carter. n/t