As president, Jimmy Carter brokered the peace agreement that removed Israel’s most powerful enemy from the battlefield. Israel and Egypt signed the Camp David peace accords in 1978. They remain the biggest achievement from decades of mostly failed U.S. peacemaking in the Middle East. But for Carter, who died on Sunday at the age of 100, they were clouded by what he saw as the continued oppression of the Palestinians and Israel’s expansion of settlements. Carter devoted much of his life during and after his presidency trying to broker a just solution to the wider conflict. But he incurred Israel’s when he said its military rule over the Palestinians amounted to apartheid.
