Posted on 04/15/2008 7:47:12 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Jimmy Carter Lays A Wreath at Arafat's Tomb By Julie Stahl CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief April 15, 2008
Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter laid a wreath of red roses at the grave of Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat during a visit to the West Bank City of Ramallah on Tuesday.
"He and Mrs. Carter and his son Jeff wanted to pay their respects to President Arafat," Carter's trip director Rick Jasculca told Cybercast News Service. But the former president didn't make any comments there, he said.
Dubbed the "godfather of terrorism," Arafat was linked to the deaths of two American diplomats in the Sudan in 1973 -- one of many terror acts laid at his feet. (See earlier story)
Twenty years later, Arafat became the first PLO leader to sign a peace agreement with an Israeli Prime Minister -- Yitzhak Rabin -- in 1993. He was considered Israel's peace partner (although many Israelis never believed it) until the beginning of the violent Palestinian uprising in September 2000. Arafat managed the terror war against Israel until his death in 2004.
U.S. officials have emphasized that Carter is visiting the Middle East as a private citizen and not as a representative of the U.S. government.
On Tuesday, the Israeli government refused Carter's request to visit Hamas-controlled Gaza. The former U.S. leader has angered the Israeli government over plans to meet Hamas's top leader, Khaled Mashaal, in Syria on Friday.
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Next up for Jimmah - a side trip to Moscow to pay his respects to Lenin and laying a wreath at Stalin’s tomb.
Thanks Lucy!
(I must take some time a learn how to post pics, after all these years here, its embarrassing)
Laying a wreath on behalf of all leftist’s, including Barack, Hillary, Nancy and all.
Totally repugnant. I hope he endorses Hussein and that this picture is juxtaposed for all the Jewish voters to see. Anyone in this country who has a conscience should be repulsed.
I can't believe he has a Seawolf class submarine named after him. What a disgrace.
Actions speak louder than words ... if no one has the balls to pull his passport, then they ought to at least pull his Secret Service detail, paid for by the taxpayers, when this traitor is engaged in activities clearly against America’s interests and in support of terrorists.
He never met a leftist dictator he didn’t like.
“Has he endorsed Obama yet?”
Rumor is, he wants to get Hillary to quit the race.
The peanut farmer does it again. He should go back to the farm and concentrate on the little things. We do not need a terrorist loving hypocrite on the unofficial diplomatic front.
It absolutely blows me away that this utterly unAmerican creature was actually our president. And the damage he did (and continues to do) is a nice foreshadowing of what an Obama presidency could entail.
Jimmy Carter prays to and pays his respects to his mentor and greatest hero for peace, Yasser Arafat.
When Jimma Carter leaves this planet I will hope to be able to leave a wet rememberance for him from me on his grave site....it’s the least I can do.
Arafat, terrorist and pedophile, honored by our President. We are doomed!
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