Former President Jimmy Carter outlined obstacles for a peace deal in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a guest on PBS’ “Tavis Smiley” on Feb. 16, addressing illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, the separation barrier that cuts deep into Palestinian land and the Hamas resistance.

In this segment, Carter said many of the Israeli settlements have been declared illegal and must be removed, with the settlers receiving financial compensation, “as they were when they moved out of Gaza.”

He said the separation wall should be moved to internationally accepted 1967 borders.

“Eventually, that wall is going to have to be moved back to the permanent border between Israel and the Palestinians, and that means giving up this land that Israel’s tried to compensate,” he said.

On Hamas, Carter described what the group conveyed to him when he met its leaders in April.

“Hamas has not denied the right of Israel to exist, what they have denied is recognition of Israel’s right to exist… I hate to play on semantics, but that’s what they described to me very clearly… What the Hamas people say is that ‘we will accept Israel’s right to exist, to live in peace, inside the ’67 borders.”

In Carter’s new book “We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work,” Carter outlines a policy proposal for the Obama administration, arguing that now is the time for Middle East peace.

The full-length interview can be seen at www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/video.