James Earl Carter, the thirty-ninth elected President of the United States of America, will go down in history as the first, and possibly only, Western leader who brokered a peace deal between an Arab country and the Jewish State of Israel, to the satisfaction of both parties. Be it the Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty, brokered by President Ronald Reagan, or the Oslo Agreement, by President George Bush Sr., the concerned parties claim that they received an unfair deal. The Israeli-Jordanian Peace Accords, largely distributed the disputed waters of the Jordan River Basin to the favor of Israel whereby "100 percent of the water from the upper Jordan River not allocated to Syria or Jordan will be included as belonging to Israel" ("Rationale for Key Provisions of the Accord" 1-2). That is, Israel is not awarded an allocation as Jordan and Syria were, but all surplus. The Oslo Agreement was nothing more than a "treaty without guarantee, which promised no statehood, no end to Jewish settlements, no return of Palestinian refugees, and – most important of all – no capital in Jerusalem" (Fisk 1). The only peace treaty brokered to the satisfaction of the parties involved was the Egyptian-Israeli Treaty and one has to assume that the character of Carter, his outlook, and his moral principles, are relevant to this outcome. Close analysis of Jimmy Carter's character, political platform and world vision, illustrates that he was an idealist who believed that conflicts could be, and should be resolved peacefully. His foreign policy was aimed towards settlement of global conflicts and "the greatest foreign policy success of the Carter presidency involved the Middle East" ("The Outsider President" 2). President Carter's political platform of moral intervention in global conflict, set the stage for a determined US effort to end potential eruptions of war in the Mideast confl...