Give peace a Jimmy Carter

How quickly one forgets. As the State of Israel prepares to celebrate its 60th anniversary this May, the country seems to be suffering a case of collective — and selective — amnesia, forgetting who their true friends are. During those 60 years, Israel has had to fight for its survival on average one major war every 10 years: the War of independence (1948); the Suez War (1956); the Six Day War (1967): the October (Yom Kippur) War (1973); the invasion of Lebanon (1982); the first intifada (1987-93); the second Lebanon War (2006). Throughout this tumultuous, and often violent, history, one man has brought lasting peace — at least on one front — to the troubled region; that man is Jimmy Carter. As president of the United States, Carter devoted unprecedented amounts of energy and deployed the full force and prestige of the U.S. diplomacy machine to cement a peace agreement