Source: Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-carter4may04,0,532380.story?coll=la-home-headlines
On a campus beset by strained relations between Jewish and Islamic groups, former President Jimmy Carter urged the UC Irvine students to understand each other's positions and to work together.
"I'd like to see the leaders form a combined group and take my invitation to go to Palestine and see what's going on for yourselves," said Carter, in Orange County to discuss his controversial book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."
"If you take me up on it, I'll raise the money to pay for your trip."
Carter's hourlong talk Thursday morning at a packed Bren Center before about 3,300 students and faculty was generally well-received. He got two standing ovations and several lengthy bursts of applause, the longest when he called the invasion of Iraq "one of the greatest foreign policy mistakes our nation has ever made.