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.

More on Carter’s trip:

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.

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Jimmy Carter hasn’t met a terrorist that he doesn’t like. Carter is scheduled to meet Khaled Meshala in Syria in mid-April. Meshala is the exiled leader of Hamas, a Palestinian terror group.

Fox News Reports:

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.

In June 2007 Carter Jimmy Carter called the United States’ policy not to fund Iranian backed terrorist group Hamas, “criminal”. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded on CNN’s Situation Room that Carter’s comments were “bizarre.”

Jimmy Carter is an embarrassment to the United States. The Middle East Situation can in part be attributed to his disasterous Presidency.

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