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- After so much bloodshed, is the Holy Land still holy? Jimmy Carter answers this question and discusses the U.S.'s role in the Middle East in a continuing conversation with Val Zavala. (TRT: 6:39)
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Jimmy Carter on the Holy Land
Last updated: January 6, 2008
Reporter's NOTES
Val Zavala
For the second part of my interview with Jimmy Carter, I wanted to ask something different. I asked my colleagues in the newsroom for some ideas.
“Do you think that you’d be a better president today than you were in 1977?” Or “What advice would you have for President Bush about Iraq?”
In the end — knowing that Carter is a devout Christian — I decided to ask him about the Middle East. Did he think that the Holy Land was still “holy” after decades of bloodshed and war?
This has often crossed my mind, as I’ve watched the headlines year after year — raids, wars, suicide bombers — anything but peace and trust. Yes, sacred events happened there, but that was centuries ago.
And part of the definition of “holy” is “dedicated to the service of God; saintly, pious, having a spiritually pure quality.” How can that exist in the middle of violence and hatred?
I thought that the answer that Carter gave was very good and most interesting. What you do you think?
