Pat Dollard

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After his disgusting laying of a wreath at the grave of brutal mass murder Yasser Arafat ( like Hitler, he would round up Catholics, drain them of their blood for Palestinian transfusions, and then pile their dead bodies in huge heaps all over hospitals. He turned entire generations of Palestinian children into murderous psychopaths, invented terror-jackings of planes, and each year would steal millions of dollars in relief money from his own people and stuff it into his private bank account. And I’m just warming up here…), Carter is finally about to honor the head of an organization who regularly rockets civilians in Israel and whose charter demands the annihilation of Israel. He will get nothing out of this but instead will hand Hamas leverage by strengthening their reputation. He will stoke their hopes that they can continue to attack Israel, because they will believe he will continue to defend them. Carter is a truly, truly mentally ill degenerate prostitute who does this out of both ego and because he is bought and paid for by Arab groups who hate Israel, and donate millions upon millions of dollars to the Carter Center. We may as well be sending Charles Manson over there. Or that Hooker who brought down Elliott Spitzer. We’ve got plenty of more intersting psychopaths and prostitutes than him.

Carter has said he will present his “findings’ to Condi Rice. She should not be too afraid of the Leftist press that she actually meets with him; instead she should deny him any meeting, and make it clear that she’s not interested in his “findings” and opinions in order to deny him any real participation in the whole Arab-Israeli process. If he wants to go talk with murderous baby-killers who fight behind human shields, then let him. But leave it at that. Let him just move there, for Christ’s sake.

DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter arrived in Damascus on Friday for talks with exiled leaders of Hamas, the Islamist group which he argues should be included in international efforts for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Carter, who is on a Middle East tour to hear views on solving the historic conflict, will meet Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal and senior Hamas members in one of the highest profile encounters between the group and a Western figure.

The former statesman, who brokered the 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt when he was president, met two senior Hamas officials in Cairo on Thursday after Israel refused him permission to enter the Gaza Strip, where they live.

Carter said the Hamas leaders he had met in Cairo told him they would accept a peace agreement with Israel negotiated by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the rival Fatah faction, if the Palestinians approved it in a referendum.

But one of them, Mahmoud al-Zahar, wrote this week that a peace process could not start until Israel withdrew from all the land it occupied in the 1967 war, ended its military presence in the West Bank and Gaza, dismantled all settlements, repudiated its annexation of Arab East Jerusalem, released all prisoners and ended its air, sea and land “blockade” of Palestinian land.

“Given what we have lost, it is the only basis by which we can start to be whole again,” Zahar wrote in an article published by the Washington Post this week.

Palestinian political commentator Ali Badwan said Carter’s meetings with Hamas could help erode a U.S.-led drive to isolate the group, which has refused to abandon armed struggle and recognize past Israeli-Palestinian peace agreements.

“Carter is a respected figure and his visit may encourage some in the West to open channels with Hamas,” Badwan said.

“The meeting shows that Fatah has no longer a monopoly on the Palestinian national decision. We are even hearing Israeli voices calling for dialogue with Hamas,” he added.

In a proposal passed to Carter this week, an Israeli cabinet minister offered to meet the leadership of Hamas to ask for the release of a soldier held in Gaza — a move which would contravene official Israeli government policy.

Israel shunned Carter during his visit to Israel this week and Washington criticized him for his contacts with Hamas, which they regard as a terrorist group. They say Hamas should be shunned as long as it refuses to recognize Israel’s right to exist or renounce violence.

Hamas says it is a legitimate resistance group fighting Israeli occupation. Carter said Hamas, which won Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006, must be involved in any arrangements that could lead to peace.

Carter has expressed sympathy for the Palestinians during his tour, calling the blockade of Gaza a crime and an atrocity.

He was due to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad before seeing Meshaal.

The Baathist government in Damascus hosts Meshaal and other exiled Hamas leaders, despite its longstanding suppression of Syrian Islamists — an estimated 3,000 of whom are in jail.