My former White House colleague Elliott Abrams has now gone two rounds with former president Jimmy Carter on the matter of Israel and the Palestinians. They can be found here, here, here, and here.

If it were a boxing match, the referee would stop the fight. Elliott systematically eviscerates Carter and, in the process, reveals the utter emptiness of Mr. Carter’s case. The man Josh Muravchik dubbed our “worst ex-president” keeps building on his reputation. On the Middle East, and on so much more, Carter simply does not know what he is talking about. Those who care about the former president should therefore counsel him to quit talking. In the words of Lincoln, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”