TULKAREM, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian activists and residents planted a grove of 250 olive trees in a northern West Bank town on Monday in memory of the late U.S. President Jimmy Carter, describing him as a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause.

"If Israel decides to give full rights to only one ethnic group and fewer rights to others, it loses its democratic soul and with it its Jewish one." —Jeremy Ben-Ami,

In memory of late U.S. President Jimmy Carter, a grove of 250 young olive trees was planted Monday in the occupied West Bank by Palestinian activists and residents, who described Carter as a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause.