Former President Jimmy Carter died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, at 100 years old. The 39th president served a single, tumultuous term in the White House from 1977 to 1981. He is remembered as a man of deeply held faith who helped negotiate a landmark peace deal between Israel and Egypt that still holds to this day. Carter was also a committed Cold Warrior who began funneling arms to the Afghan mujahideen to fight the Soviet Union in 1979. He continued to support right-wing authoritarian governments in Latin America and beyond. His austerity politics also hastened the Democratic Party’s neoliberal turn, further cemented by his defeat to Ronald Reagan in 1980. In retirement, Carter devoted himself to causes including election integrity and building homes for low-income people. He stirred controversy in 2006 with his book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” in which he compared Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to South Africa’s former racist government. This is Jimmy Carter speaking to Democracy Now! in 2007. 

Jimmy Carter: “The Palestinians can’t even ride on the same roads that the Israelis have created or built in Palestinian territory. The Israelis never see a Palestinian, except the Israeli soldiers. The Palestinians never see an Israeli, except at a distance, except the Israeli soldiers. So, within Palestinian territory, they are absolutely and totally separated, much worse than they were in South Africa, by the way. And the other thing is, the other definition of 'apartheid' is, one side dominates the other. And the Israelis completely dominate the life of the Palestinian people.”

Later in the broadcast, we’ll air extended clips of our past interviews with President Jimmy Carter.