I guess that the worst U.S. President, ever, misses his ole terrorist buddies enough that he’s going to make an unsanctioned diplomatic visit to leaders of designated terrorist organization Hamas in Syria, a known terror sponsoring state.
Image – These two peaceful-looking guys are anti-Israel buddies Carter and Arafat, both of whom are Nobel ‘Peace’ Prize winners.
FOXNews.com first reported Tuesday on an item in the Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat that said Carter was preparing an unprecedented meeting on April 18 with with Khaled Meshal, the exiled head of the Palestinian terror group Hamas.
The State Department official in Israel did not confirm whether President Carter planned to meet Meshal during his time in Syria. FOXNews.com tried numerous times to reach the Carter Center for comment, but calls and e-mails were not returned.
Ahmed Yousuf, Hamas’ top political adviser in Gaza, did not have any information on a meeting between Carter and Meshal, according to World Net Daily.
“I don’t know anything about any such meeting,” said Yousuf, who is normally involved in setting up meetings between foreign officials and Hamas leaders, according to World Net Daily.
However, the Al-Hayat story said unnamed senior Hamas officials were aware of Carter’s plans.
The State Department has designated Hamas a “foreign terrorist organization.” Chief spokesman Sean McCormack once said of the prospect of meeting with Meshal, “That’s not something that we could possibly conceive of.”
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.
Should Carter meet with the Hamas chief, he would be the first Western leader of his stature to do so. Though Meshal met with Clinton officials in the 1990s, the Bush administration has sought to isolate Hamas, enforcing rigid sanctions on its government in Gaza and refusing to meet with its leaders unless it recognizes Israel and abandons terror.
This isn’t completely unprecedented – in a break with conventional diplomacy, Nancy Pelosi, the worst Speaker of the House, ever, visited Syria, a known terror sponsoring state.
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Yes sir Carter is definitely the worst president in my life time, both while in and after being in office. Maybe he will be kidnapped and beheaded while in Syria, it would probably serve him right..
Well, maybe not anything that extreme. I would, however, wish for another equally improbable thing: Carter comes to his senses and actually supports the United States’ efforts in the Global War on Terror.