Jimmy Carter made historic contributions to peace in the Middle East - opinion
However, it was partially his own fault when that tenacity went too far for many in the pro-Israel community.
THEN-PRIME minister Menachem Begin (right) and then-Egyptian president Anwar Sadat greet each other for their first meeting at the Camp David summit as then-US president Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter look on, in 1978.(photo credit: JIMMY CARTER LIBRARY/NATIONAL ARCHIVES/REUTERS)