Carter with his wife Rosalyn laying a wreath at Arafat’s grave

Jimmy Carter one of our worst Presidents was in Ramallah Laying a wreath on the mausoleum of former AIDS infected Palestinian leader Yassar Arafat. President Bush refused the chore of laying the wreath on Arafat’s grave during his visit to the Middle East.

A rumored supporter of Barack Obama’s, Carter will remain in the region to meet with exiled Hamas leader Mashaal later in the week.

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Former President Jimmy Carter embraced a leading Hamas figure Tuesday, according to participants in a meeting that infuriated Israeli officials already upset by Carter’s freelance Mideast peace mission.
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Carter also laid a wreath at the grave of Yasser Arafat, whom the Bush administration and many Israelis blame for the breakdown of peace talks seven years ago and the violence that followed.

At a reception in the West Bank town of Ramallah organized by Carter’s office, the former president hugged Nasser Shaer, a senior Hamas politician, meeting participants said. Embraces between men are a common custom in Arab culture.

“He gave me a hug. We hugged each other, and it was a warm reception,” Shaer told The Associated Press. “Carter asked what he can do to achieve peace between the Palestinians and Israel … and I told him the possibility for peace is high.”

Carter’s office refused to comment, saying he does not discuss closed meetings.

Shaer, who served as deputy prime minister and education minister in the Hamas-led Palestinian government that unraveled last year, is considered a leading member of the Islamic militant group’s pragmatic wing. After a stint in an Israeli prison last year, he is now a professor at a West Bank university, teaching comparative religion.

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said Carter’s meeting with Hamas “dignified” a group committed to Israel’s destruction. “One cannot but wonder how this attitude is supposed to promote peace and understanding,” he said.

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Carter continues to prove his disdain for Israel with this last outrage.

Jimmy’s creepiness factor is overwhelming. I wish he would stay there. It would the beginning of a cleansing that this country needs from traitorous hacks like Mr. Carter.

t/b: Hot Air

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Medal Of Freedom Recipient Jimmy Carter With His Wife

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“I’ve been meeting with Hamas leaders for years,”

– Jimmy Carter

A rumored Barack Obama supporter, Jimmy Carter, one of our worst presidents, insists on meeting with exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Syria. This despite various calls from the State Dept. along with some Democrats to avoid the meeting.

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…Carter, who brokered the 1979 peace deal with Egypt, was off to a chilly start, both because of the impending meeting with Mashaal and his 2006 book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, which compared Israeli actions in the West Bank with the racial oppression that once reigned in South Africa.

So the aging diplomat in a gray suit, who slipped quietly into the lobby of the King David Hotel on Sunday evening, did not draw the attention of top Israeli politicians.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have all declined to meet with him, citing “scheduling problems.” Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu did not want to meet with the ex-president, either.

“There is no doubt that Jimmy Carter as a former president should be greeted as a matter of protocol, but it does not mean that the prime minister, the foreign minister and certainly the opposition leader have to meet him,” Netanyahu adviser Uzi Arad told Israel Radio.

Foreign Ministry officials, meanwhile, told the Post that Carter’s visit placed Israel in a no-win situation, adding that the story of his visit here was sparking some interest in the US press, which was following to see what kind of reception he would receive.

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Jimmy sold Iran out in the 1970′s now it is time for him to quash any headway Israel had made in the Middle East with his sleazy presence in Syria. Stay there Jimmy. We don’t need you back in the United States.

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