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Menachem Begin's compromise and conviction: Insights from the Camp David talks

Benny Begin honored his father’s legacy at a Jerusalem event marking 46 years of Israel-Egypt peace, highlighting Menachem Begin’s principles and diplomacy.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Then-US president Jimmy Carter, then-Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, and then-Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin during the signing of the Camp David Accords in the East Room of the White House in Washington, September 17, 1978.
Steve Schnur and Doug Davis wear yellow Gaza hostage pins on stage at the Grammy Awards, February 2, 2025.

Two men wear hostage pins while accepting Jimmy Carter's Grammy

Two men wore yellow pins honoring Gaza hostages while accepting Jimmy Carter’s posthumous Grammy, though his grandson and co-acceptor did not.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
US PRESIDENT Jimmy Carter announces new sanctions against Iran in retaliation for taking US hostages, at the White House, April 7, 1980.

Jimmy Carter’s mixed legacy - opinion

"Carter's disproportionate criticism of Israel, coupled with a lack of condemnation for Hamas’s terrorist activities, highlighted his bias and alienated him from the mainstream Jewish community."

|ByDAVID BEDEIN
President Jimmy Carter and Prime Minister Menachem Begin reciting Friday night kiddish at the Camp David Presidential retreat, Maryland, September 1978

Jimmy Carter eulogized for a lifetime of good deeds and spirituality

Breslover Hassidim recall he saved the mausoleum of their Rebbe in Uman, Ukraine.

|ByGIL ZOHAR

Inaugural hostages: Did Hamas agree to deal with Israel because they’re scared of Trump? - comment

The hostages' release on the day before Trump's inauguration harkens back to the Iranian hostage release in 1981.

JANUARY 19, 2025
US President Donald Trump seen with a Hamas terrorist (illustrative)

Zionism means Jewish people must put their own needs first - opinion

The debate in the Zionist camp over Carter’s legacy as it relates to his relationship with Israel teaches a lesson that extends far past president Carter and the US-Israel relationship.

JANUARY 18, 2025
THEN-US PRESIDENT Donald Trump stands alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the foreign ministers of the UAE (right) and Bahrain at the signing of the Abraham Accords at the White House in 2020.

Biden's failure to build a legacy - opinion

History will not remember the words spoken at funerals but the actions taken in moments of crisis. And right now, Joe Biden’s actions – or lack thereof – are an indelible stain on his presidency.

JANUARY 15, 2025
ByAHMAD TIBI
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden attends Jimmy Carter’s state funeral at Washington National Cathedral, last Thursday. Biden’s eulogy for Carter could have been a moment of reckoning; instead, it became a stark reminder of his own moral failures, the writer argues.

Letters to the Editor January 13, 2025: Seeming derangement

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

JANUARY 13, 2025
Letters

WATCH: Jimmy Carter honored with state funeral before burial in Georgia hometown

Fellow Democratic President Joe Biden will eulogize the 39th president who died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.

JANUARY 9, 2025
ByREUTERS
The casket bearing the remains of former US president Jimmy Carter arrives at the Washington National Cathedral, January 9, 2025

Jimmy Carter: The best US president Israelis have ever had - opinion

US president Jimmy Carter deserves our nation’s gratitude. May his soul be bound up in the bundle of life.

JANUARY 8, 2025
THEN-PRESIDENT Shimon Peres meets with former US president Jimmy Carter in Jerusalem, in 2009.

Jimmy Carter to receive US Capitol tribute before funeral service

Both Biden and Trump are expected to attend Carter's funeral service on Thursday.

JANUARY 7, 2025
ByREUTERS
Funeral bunting on a portrait of former US President Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter made historic contributions to peace in the Middle East - opinion

However, it was partially his own fault when that tenacity went too far for many in the pro-Israel community.

JANUARY 5, 2025
THEN-PRIME minister Menachem Begin (right) and then-Egyptian president Anwar Sadat greet each other for their first meeting at the Camp David summit as then-US president Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter look on, in 1978.

What's the verdict on Jimmy Carter after looking at his successes and failures? - opinion

The first Arab-Israeli peace deal will forever be his trophy, and the Khomeini Revolution will be his disgrace.

JANUARY 3, 2025
US PRESIDENT Jimmy Carter announces new sanctions against Iran in retaliation for taking US hostages, at the White House, April 7, 1980.

Jimmy Carter's legacy on Israel and the Palestinians is a complex one - editorial

After Carter stepped down as president in 1981, he became one of Israel’s most outspoken critics and one of the Palestinians' most vocal supporters.

DECEMBER 31, 2024
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter is seen at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver

Jimmy Carter: A Jewish tragedy - opinion

Not a Cyrus nor a Truman, in the end, Jimmy Carter, but a Nebuchadnezzar who befriended Haman.

DECEMBER 30, 2024
ByMICHAEL OREN
A grim-faced President Jimmy Carter, seated at desk in Oval Office of White House tells of the aborted rescue effort intended to get the 53 American hostages out of Iran. April 25, 1980.