Carter’s Middle East Tour - Day Nine Updates

Former President Jimmy Carter’s...
Middle East Tour - Day Nine Updates:
Political Hamas Leader Rejects Israeli Recognition
Monday, April 21, 2008

BBC News website brings us this bit of... ‘Knew that one was coming,’ news and it starts off like this... Palestinian militant group Hamas will not recognise Israel, its political leader Khaled Meshaal has insisted... He was responding to comments by former US President Jimmy Carter, following their talks in Syria at the weekend...
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Hamas rejects Israeli recognition

* ABC News website reports it this way... Fresh from his controversial talks with Hamas leaders in Damascus, Syria, former President Jimmy Carter told ABC News that Hamas would accept the existence of Israel within the confines of the 1967 borders if the Palestinian people approved such a deal...
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Carter-Hamas Talks May Bear Fruit

* JPOST.com sums it up with this short report... A Hamas spokesman says the Islamic terrorist group will carry out harsher attacks on Israeli crossings - worse than recent ones that killed five Israelis...
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Hamas vows "harsh" attacks on Israel, previous attacks were "practice"

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Carter’s Middle East Tour - Day Six Updates

Former President Jimmy Carter’s...
Middle East Tour - Day Six Updates:
Carter's Hamas Meeting Legitimizes Terrorism
Friday, April 18, 2008

METimes.com brings us this report today and it stars like this...
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter ignored strong opposition from Israel and the White House to meet with Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal in Damascus on Friday and by doing so inspired Israel's industry minister to say he is also ready to meet the exiled Islamist leader... Carter was expected to discuss with Meshaal the release of Israeli soldier Corporal Gilad Shalit, captured by Palestinian militants in June 2006. They were also to discuss the possibility of a truce between Hamas and Israel and the ending of sanctions on Gaza... The meeting was being held at a Hamas office in the Syrian capital...
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Carter meets exiled Hamas leader

* EJPress.org has this take...
Israeli minister ready to meet Hamas

* USNews.com has this article out today and it start it off like this...
There he goes again! Former President Jimmy Carter, acting out his stubborn, self-righteous moralism and his stunning vanity, persists in legitimizing terrorism. How else can the Middle East see Carter's meeting in Syria with no less than the terrorist mastermind Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas? ... This man Mashaal is responsible for dozens of deadly suicide bombings and thousands of mortar and rocket attacks that have killed more than 250 Israelis, not to speak of the violent takeover of the Gaza Strip by Hamas last June, which undercut newly revived efforts by Israel and the Palestinians to strike a final peace deal. And, oh, yes, several of Mashaal's victims have been Americans... There is bipartisan condemnation of Carter's meeting, but Carter has a long history of support for Hamas...
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The Damage of Jimmy Carter - Carter's Hamas meeting legitimizes terrorism

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Carter’s Middle East Tour - Day Two Updates

Former President Jimmy Carter’s...
Middle East Tour
Day Two Updates

Israel President Shimon Peres Rips Carter in Meeting
Monday, April 14, 2008

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JTA.org starts us off with this report today and it begins like this... Shimon Peres told Jimmy Carter that he has damaged Israel and the peace process... The Israeli president met Carter shortly after the former U.S. president landed in Israel Sunday as part of a Middle East tour...
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* CNSNews.com has this report... Just days before he is supposed to meet with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Damascus, Syria, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter criticized Palestinian rocket attacks on civilians in southern Israel... "I think it's a despicable crime for any deliberate effort to be made to kill innocent civilians, and my hope is there will be a cease-fire soon," Carter said during a visit Monday to the rocket-ravaged town of Sderot...
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Jimmy Carter Gets 'Souvenir' Rocket Tail on Visit to Rocket-Pounded Sderot

* Haaretz.com has this report out today and it goes in part like this... Shin Bet security service has declined to assist Carter during his visit, U.S. sources close to the matter said on Monday... An American source described the snub as an "unprecedented" breach between the Shin Bet and the U.S. Secret Service, which protects all current and former U.S. presidents, as well as Israeli leaders when they visit the United States... Government sources on Monday described the lack of Shin Bet during Carter's visit to Sderot, an area often hit by rockets from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, as particularly "problematic"...
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Carter offers to act as 'communicator' between Hamas, U.S., Israel

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