Jimmy Carter responds to Thomas Friedman

I never thought that I would quote Jimmy Carter, but I would today. "Mr. Friedman is advocating what some Israelis want and no Palestinian wants: a perpetuation of the status quo, and for the United States to “just get out of the picture.” He claims that we Americans want peace more than the Israelis and the Palestinians. Certainly that is not true of the Palestinians, who are suffering horribly in Gaza and are oppressed and deprived of freedom and human dignity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem." But he never speaks right, without ruining it. Did you see his words of praise for Israeli readers later in the letter?

PS And Will, is that other letter in the NYT really by you? It does not sound like you at all. What gives?