Carter snubs US, Israel over Hamas
An Israeli economic siege on Gaza and a proposal by an Israeli minister to meet Hamas to discuss the fate of an Israeli soldier held by the Palestinians was also covered in Damascus.
David Foley, the US State Department spokesman for Near East Affairs, told Al Jazeera that Carter “does not have the support of the US government”.
“We’ve been very clear about our position about Jimmy Carter. Former President Carter is a private citizen and is on a private visit,” he said.
Unprecedented talks
Al Jazeera’s Clayton Swisher reported that Carter’s talks with Meshaal were conducted in a “pleasant” atmosphere.
“Al Jazeera has learned, based on exclusive sources inside the Carter-Hamas talks, that a delegation of Hamas officials from the Gaza Strip, led by the Hamas foreign minister Mahmoud Zahar, is going to arrive in Damascus on Saturday to join the talks with President Carter and Hamas leadership,” he said.
Carter arrived in Syria on Friday and held talks with Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, before meeting Meshaal.
Details on the meeting with al-Assad were not immediately available, but Rick Jafculca, Carter’s spokesman, s
Trip Report by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Lebanon, Syria, Israel, West Bank, and Gaza - June ,
June 17,
The purpose of this trip was to join other Carter Center observers during the Lebanese election and to visit leaders involved in the overall peace process in Syria, Israel, and Palestine. In Lebanon, approximately 60 Carter Center observers from 23 nations were led by David Carroll, and former Yemeni Prime Minister Abdulkarim al Eryani was my co-chairman.
LEBANON ELECTION:&#; candidates competed for parliamentary seats in 26 districts. In a "confessional" system more than 65 years old, it was prearranged that seats be divided equally between Christians and Muslims, distributed as follows: Maronite Christians 34; Greek Orthodox 14; Greek Catholic 8; Sunni Muslim 27; Shi'a Muslim 27; Druze 8; Armenian 6; Alawite 2; Protestant 1; other Christians 1.
Two alliances evolved: the March 14 group (Sunnis and others), with Saudi Arabia and U.S. backing, having 70 seats; and the March 8 group (Shi'a and others), with Iran and Syria backing, having 58 seats. Hassan Nasrallah (Hezbollah), Speaker Nabih Berri (Amal - the original Shi'a political party, now aligned with Hez
Jimmy Carter is dead, and he leaves behind him a legacy of utter failure as president and beyond. Among his numerous disastrous policies still harming the world today are his decades of legitimizing terrorist Hamas and undermining Israel. While Americans eulogize a man with no major lasting accomplishment, some Israeli and Jewish outlets are more bitterly remembering an antisemitic politician who spent years backstabbing them to appease radical jihadis.
Carter received a Nobel Peace Prize after brokering a deeply flawed Arab-Israeli peace deal and thereafter always fancied himself an expert on the Middle East and the man most qualified to bring peace between the Jewish nation of Israel and its numerous Muslim enemies. His bungling promotion of jihadi entities, his campaign for countries to recognize genocidal terror group Hamas as legitimate, and his pressure on Israel to vacate areas that have become terror hotbeds under “Palestinian” control were all catastrophic.
Years before Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Meshaal launched the Oct. 7 massacre, Jimmy Carter met with them and claimed they weren’t really murderous terrorists. Carter’s bookfalsely accuses Israel
Former US president to meet Hamas
| Jimmy Carter is drawing criticism from the Bush administration over his meeting Hamas [AFP] |
Former US president Jimmy Carter has drawn fire from the Bush administration, a US presidential hopeful and the Israeli government over his planned meeting in Damascus with Hamas political chief Khaled Meshaal.
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