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The Carter Center issued a statement that following recent hospital stays by President Jimmy Carter, the 98-year-old former president “decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention.” Among President Carter’s greatest accomplishments was the 1978 Camp David Accords, agreements signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat under Carter’s initiative and guidance. The agreements then led to the awarding of the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize to Begin and Sadat and the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace treaty. In September of 1978, following the Camp David Accords agreement, Jimmy Carter addressed a joint session of Congress as Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat sat in the balcony. What did Jimmy Carter say at the end of his speech?
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A. Said President Carter, “President Sadat, Prime Minister Begin, I would like to leave you with this final message. As it says in Isaiah, Chapter 57, Verse 19, ‘Peace, peace to the far and to the near, says the Lord.’ May God bless you all, the people of Israel, the people of Egypt, and the people of the United States of America.”
B. Carter looked up at Sadat and Begin and said,“As God says in the Koran in Chapter 5, Verse 8,‘O you who believe, stand up as witnesses for God in all fairness and do not let the hatred of a people deviate you from justice. Be just: This is closest to piety, and beware of God. Surely God is aware of all you do.’ I know that the people of Israel and the people of Egypt will no longer let hatred deviate them from the path of justice.”
C. President Carter concluded his remarks by saying,“And I would like to say, as a Christian, to these two friends of mine, the words of Jesus,‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be the children of God.’”
D. President Carter closed his remarks to Congress, saying,“I’d like to conclude with the words of our Lord, as stated in Ezekiel, Chapter 37, Verse 26:‘I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting peace.’”
E. Jimmy Carter concluded his remarks, saying,“God bless Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin. And oh yeah, I’ve looked on Golda Meir with lust. I’ve committed adultery with Golda Meir in my heart many times.”
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