Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly preparing an unprecedented meeting with the leader of Hamas, an organization that the U.S. government considers one of the leading terrorist threats in the world.
The Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Tuesday that Carter was planning a trip to Syria for mid-April, during which he would meet with Khaled Meshal, the exiled head of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, on April 18.
Deanna Congileo, Carter’s press secretary, confirmed in an e-mail to FOXNews.com that Carter will be in the Mideast in April. Pressed for comment, Congileo did not deny that the former president is considering visiting Meshal.
“President Carter is planning a trip to the Mideast next week; however, we are still confirming details of the trip and will issue a press release by the end of this week,” wrote Congileo. “I cannot confirm any specific meetings at this point in time.”
Meshal, who lives in Syria to avoid being arrested by the Israeli government, leads Hamas from his seat in Damascus, where he is a guest of Bashar al-Assad's regime.
The State Department has designated Hamas a "foreign terrorist organization," and some groups hold Meshal personally responsible for ordering the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack once said of the prospect of meeting with Meshal, "That's not something that we could possibly conceive of."
Some Carter critics called the latest reports typical of the ex-president.
“It’s about par for the course from President Carter, demonstrating a lack of judgment typical of what he does," said John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. "To go to Syria to visit Hamas at this point is just an ill-timed, ill-advised decision on his part."
“I’m not surprised that Carter would do this, as he has been supporting Palestinian extremism for many years,” said Steve Emerson, director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, a watchdog group.
It's really not that surprising to me either. Jimmy Carter has a history of appeasement, and bending over and taking it up the ass from Islamic extremists that dates back almost 30 years. I'm sure that Jimmy will be saying things like "oh you're right, those dirty Jews need to die", and other such nonsense.
Does this idiot really think that he's going to somehow make a difference? All Hamas is going to do is use it as an opportunity for propaganda. They're going to use it to tell their followers that this gives them legitimacy and that they should continue on to commit war crimes like putting bombs in civilian areas. The world seems to want to throw the US under the bus for any slight they may have thought we have done, yet they turn a blind eye to Hamas.
Although, I would give Jimmy a significant bump in respect if he wore a GPS wire and showed CIA spooks where the leader of Hamas was and they assassinated him. But I don't think Jimmy's that smart and I don't think he'd sell out his buddies like that. Next up, Jimmy goes to meet with Osama Bin Laden!
Travis
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