TULKAREM, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian activists and residents planted a grove of 250 olive trees in a northern West Bank town on Monday in memory of the late U.S. President Jimmy Carter, describing him as a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause.

Last week many Americans witnessed the funeral for former President Jimmy Carter at the National Cathedral in the nation’s capital. President Carter died in December while in hospice care in Georgia.

The funeral Thursday of former President Jimmy Carter brings back powerful memories of what I believe was his greatest achievement: the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt in 1978.

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In 1977, before the Camp David talks, Begin and Sadat had a preliminary meeting at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel. On July 22, 1946, Begin, leading the Jewish Irgun militia, led a terrorist attack on this hotel and 91 were killed and 47 were injured.

In Africa, Maryse Quashie, a regular columnist for La Croix International, believes figures such as Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela, and Thomas Sankara could help reconcile young people with politics, which they often associate with lies and theft.

Jimmy Carter spent four years as president of the United States and 44 years as ex-president. It’s his extraordinary career as our former president that we are most likely to

President Carter practiced his faith clearly and openly — he even taught adult Sunday School while in office! Yet he fully honored the separation of church and state.

America has always used a blend of hard power and soft power. We both flex and listen. With the stakes this high, we will need to do both in the coming years.

Local historian Larry Cook and his wife, Diane, had been invited to the 75th wedding anniversary celebration for President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, in 2021.

A prerequisite for being a president of the United States should be having a carpentry background. Consider all of the knowledge you have to have in building a house.

Joe Biden entered the Oval Office in January 2021 with more experience in foreign policy than any president in 30 years—more than all but one or two of his predecessors in the past half-century. Yet he leaves this week with a mixed record,