Carter Mondale on CNN

January 20th, 2007 in Wolf Blitzer, Jimmy Carter, CNN | Trackback

CNN: Wolf Blitzer interviews former president Jimmy Carter and vice president Walter Mondale

Former Vice President Walter Mondale

We told the truth
We obeyed he law
We kept the peace

Former President Jimmy Carter

…there are two basic thrusts in this book, and they are very important ones.

One is to rejuvenate the dormant or dead peace process in the Middle East after six years of absolutely no effort, not one single day of substantive discussions to bring peace to Israel. And the second one is to end the abominable and relatively unknown horrible prosecution — or persecution of the Palestinian people. And that’s the thrust of the book.

On his critics:

And not a single critic of the book, so far as I have seen, addresses either one of those issues in a negative way. Most of the criticisms of the book have been the one word in the title, “apartheid,” and the other one is personal attacks on me.