Former President Jimmy Carter thinks the “Palestinian problem” is one of the reasons for the deadly terror attacks in Paris last week.
Carter made the claim Monday night during an interview with Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show.”
“Well, one of the origins for it is the Palestinian problem and, you know, this aggravates people who are affiliated in any way with the Arab people who live in the West Bank and Gaza, what they are doing now, what’s begin done to them,” Carter said when asked how much religion plays a part into extremist terror attacks, specifically the ones in Paris last week that left 17 dead.
Carter also told Stewart it is “disheartening” that so much time has passed since the Oslo Accords in 1993 without a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine.
In order for a push to peace, the United States must be “at the forefront of demanding that both the Palestinians and the Israelis come together and accept a reasonable solution to the problem,” he said.
“Israelis have to withdraw from the west bank and Gaza and East Jerusalem as well,” Carter said, adding, “The Palestinians have to make sure that they commit themselves without equivocation to the freedom of Israel to live in peace alongside of them.”
“I still have hope for peace in the Middle East,” he said, “but a distant hope.”
