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But they turned him down -- he was too pro-Israeli for them.
"Islamic Jihad: We Refused Carter’s Request for a Meeting," by Eric Trager at Commentary's Contentions blog:
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) has announced that its leadership has refused former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s request for a meeting. According to PIJ’s QudsNews website, Egyptian authorities contacted PIJ Secretary-General Dr. Ramadan Shallah on Carter’s behalf earlier this week, inviting Shallah to meet with Carter in Cairo. Shallah is listed on the FBI’s list of Most Wanted Terrorists, and the reward for information leading to his apprehension is $5 million.
He is also a former associate of Sami Al-Arian at the University of South Florida.
In turning down the request, Shallah declared that Carter is “carrying an American-Israeli agenda,” while PIJ spokesman Daoud Shahab blasted Carter’s criticism of Palestinian rocket attacks during the former president’s visit to Sderot. E-mails and phone calls to the Carter Center press office seeking confirmation of Carter’s outreach to PIJ have not been returned....Yet Carter’s attempt to meet with PIJ is his most disturbing gambit to date. After all, PIJ is generally considered even more extreme than Hamas. While PIJ shares many of Hamas’ militant features–including its coordination of terrorist activities, calls for Israel’s destruction, and theocratic aims–PIJ lacks Hamas’ social and political significance. It does not have the social welfare network on which Hamas has built its popularity, while PIJ’s refusal to participate in the 2006 parliamentary elections points to its minimal public authority among Palestinians. Carter is therefore unable to argue that PIJ is somehow central to any Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which is the very argument he has used to defend his meetings with Hamas officials.
Posted by Robert at April 17, 2008 5:44 AM
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At least someone over there has standards, and stands up for them. Mr. Carter certainly does not.
Posted by: jsla![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/nav-commenters.gif)
at April 17, 2008 11:03 AM
Carter is TOO pro-Israel? Now that's a laugh! :-D
Posted by: champ at April 17, 2008 1:50 PM
Have you hugged a terrorist today?
Posted by: Ummah Gummah at April 17, 2008 2:06 PM
Found this Jimmy-Gem:
"Jimmy Carter Hates Jews"
"Oh Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy, how I love when things like this come up. Jimmy Carter, one of the biggest anti-semetic jerks in the past few months, keeps popping up in the news with all kinds of fun anti-semetic stuff."
"Now I'm not one to go in too much for the victim thing, or the race thing, or the jew thing, or whatever, but boy do I love when people start pounding on the hillbilly ex-president, poor excuse for a peanut farmer Jimmy Carter. So let's begin, first from Drudge, a link to a Washington Post story about Jimmy Carter's ridiculously biased and stupid, stupid book: 'Palestine: Peace not Apartheid', in which a few passages have come to a lot of attention as they seem to encourage violence against Israel from it's noisy neighbors:"
"The questionable passage, which appears on Page 213 of the book, reads: "It is imperative that the general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups make it clear that they will end the suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism when international laws and the ultimate goals of the Roadmap for Peace are accepted by Israel."
"Some of Mr. Carter's critics, including the Carter Center board members who resigned, say the text reads as defending terror tactics until a peace accord can be reached between Israel and Palestinians."
"Ah, lovely, it's wonderful, I'm very pleased he wrote such things because he is a retard. I just don't hold any truck with an ex-President criticizing a sitting President *cough* Carter, Clinton *cough* and this is why I'm being so horrible to him. And also there was some fun stuff on WorldNetDaily, which read:"
"TEL AVIV – Former President Jimmy Carter once complained there were "too many Jews" on the government's Holocaust Memorial Council, Monroe Freedman, the council's former executive director, told WND in an exclusive interview."
"Freedman, who served on the council during Carter's term as president, also revealed a noted Holocaust scholar who was a Presbyterian Christian was rejected from the council's board by Carter's office because the scholar's name "sounded too Jewish."
"There is more to both of those stories, however, I'm rushing to get out of here, so read both stories, here:"
Washington Post
WorldNetDaily
by Mark Slag
at April 17, 2008 2:09 PM
"Conducting Foreign Relations
Without Authority:
The Logan Act, 18 U.S.C. § 953:
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any
correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States,or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. ... "
Carter was asked by the White House and State Department to not meet with foreign agents -specifically "ham-as".
He should (as well as Nancy Pelosi for her unauthorized meeting with syrian terrorists) be subject to penalties of the above law
at April 17, 2008 3:42 PM
Wow, you mean Jimmy the Dhimmi got dissed by his bestest buddies?
Good for them. Now, revoke his damn passport right now and let him rot over for the rest of his miserable life. Maybe he might learn a thing or two.
Oh, there I go again..Living in a dreamworld....
at April 17, 2008 6:58 PM
Once an idiot always an idiot
Posted by: hemoglobin at April 18, 2008 1:38 AM
It takes a village to raise an idiot; it takes the whole World to raise a f--k-up of global stature.
Posted by: John C at April 20, 2008 12:25 PM
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