Posted on 04/19/2008 11:15:46 AM PDT by kingattax
JERUSALEM, April 18 -- Former president Jimmy Carter followed through on a planned meeting with the exiled leader of Hamas on Friday, despite U.S. and Israeli protests that the session would give legitimacy to a group they consider a terrorist organization.
Khaled Meshal, who is accused of masterminding kidnappings and suicide bombings, met with Carter, a Nobel Peace laureate, in Damascus, Syria, where Meshal has lived for nearly a decade. The meeting was one of the most notable exchanges to date between Hamas, which won Palestinian elections in 2006, and a prominent Western political figure.
Israel and the United States have consistently opposed any direct contact with Hamas, an armed Islamist movement that has vowed to destroy the Jewish state. But a spokesman for Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Eli Yishai said Friday that Yishai had asked Carter to arrange for him to meet with Hamas to discuss a possible prisoner exchange. Yishai, a member of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, has said he believes it is his religious duty to try to win the release of Cpl. Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who was kidnapped nearly two years ago and has been held in Gaza since.
Mark Regev, spokesman for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said Yishai was speaking for himself. "It is not the position of the prime minister," Regev said. "The government is against any dialogue with Hamas."
Despite that policy, Israel has been trading proposals with Hamas this spring for a possible cease-fire. Egypt has served as the intermediary, and the United States has encouraged the process behind the scenes. Those talks have snagged on the issue of whether the West Bank would also be included in the cease-fire, with Hamas arguing that it must be and Israel balking.
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system that we have is proven innocent,until proven guilty.
at times though to except.
so i say pox on the bastard.
It is hard to decide which was more damaging to this country, Jimmah Carter as President or Ex-President. Every American that has lost their lives to islam (PC radical islam) have Jimmah Carter to “thank”.
Not only passport but his Presidential pension and Secret Service protection.
Obama Receives Hamas Endorsement
In addition to recent endorsements from such luminaries as New Mexicos Governor Bill Richardson, former Clinton Cabinet member Robert Reich, former Democratic Senators Sam Nunn (Georgia) and David Boren (Oklahoma), Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) received a not unexpected endorsement from Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organization. The announcement came in the midst of former president Jimmy Carters tour of the region.
While we do not know this Obama well, we have been advised of his sterling qualities by President Carter during his visit, said Ahmed Yousef, chief political adviser to Palestines Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya. President Carter, who is one of the few Americans to truly understand the Jewish problem, has told us that Senator Obama can be trusted to follow the same anti-Zionist path to peace that he has advocated.
Yousef said Hamas places great confidence in the recommendation of this noble and most excellent former ruler of America. We will do what we can to assist Senator Obamas campaign. We await his instructions.
In related news, former president Carter laid what observers are calling an exceedingly wet kiss on Nasser Shaer, a senior Hamas politician during a closed-door reception in the West Bank section of Israel. I just love these people, Carter professed as he laid a wreath on the grave of Yasser Arafat, whom he praised as a man with extraordinarily supple and moist skin. I was devastated by his death. To never feel againthat is pure torture.
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I wish we could sentence him to a permanent road cleanup crew for traitorous terminal cluelessness.
The idea of Obumma making him Sec of State is hideously stupid.
(If only, from Hamas; just enough of a promise to drag through election cycle so as to benefit our enemies, here at home. . .)
Memo to the Almighty: I know You created every human being for a reason in Your Plan. But I am befuddled about why You created Jimmy Carter (and those like him), who seems to be a total jackass who takes up way too much oxygen.
Carter's legacy is already a disaster; but he is determined to write the worst possible ending. . .
Then they’ve been very low key about it...
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