Jimmy Carter's controversial account of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — arguing that Israel's policies in the occupied territories constitute apartheid and that peace requires a two-state solution on specific terms.
The apartheid framing: applying the word 'apartheid' to Israeli policy in the occupied West Bank — not to Israel itself — triggered massive controversy and resignations from the Carter Center. Carter's argument: the occupation involves systematic separation of populations with unequal rights, which by definition is apartheid. Presents a specific peace framework based on Carter's Camp David experience. One of the first mainstream American political figures to use this language.
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