Carter backs clergy’s call to probe U.S. aid to Israel
Former president Jimmy Carter commended 15 Christian leaders whose recent call for Congress to investigate human rights violations by Israelis against Palestinians caused tension between Jewish and mainline Protestant denominations in the United States.
The Atlanta-based Carter Center released a statement October 31 sharing the group’s concern about Israel’s disregard for stated U.S. policy, including repeated demands that Israel halt all settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, according to the Associated Baptist Press.
“This is precluding the possibility of a two-state solution and endangers a peaceful future for both Israelis and Palestinians,” said Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who started the not-for-profit Carter Center in 1982.
