JIMMY CARTER BLIR RÅDGIVARE TILL HAMAS

JIMMY CARTER BECOMES HAMAS ADVISOR

Former US President Jimmy Carter proudly announced on the Web site of
the Carter Center last weekend that during his recent visit to
Damascus he advised Hamas leader Khaled Mashal on what price to demand for hostage Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

[You can contact the Carter Center at carterweb@emory.edu or 800.550.3560--ed]

He also described Mashal and the other Hamas men he met with as respectable, suit-wearing professionals, and pointedly suggested that none of them are religious fanatics. In addition to meeting with a Syrian regime
that Washington is trying to isolate, Carter made a point of sitting
down with Hamas and requesting an audience with Hizb'Allah leader
Hassan Nasrallah. Nasrallah refused the meeting. Carter insists that
Hamas and Hizb'Allah are powerful and legitimate players on the Middle
East stage that must be engaged in dialogue, while his critics say it
is because of people like Carter that groups like Hamas gain
legitimacy and become impossible to defeat.

Due to his becoming an advisor to Hamas, Carter has violated US
federal terrorism laws -- from the "Foreign Terrorist Organizations"
(FTO) fact sheet on the US State Department Web site: "A person in the
US or subject to the jurisdiction of the US may not knowingly provide
'material support or resources' such as financial services, lodging,
or expert advice to a designated FTO." The question is, will the US
State Department enforce its laws and arrest Carter and charged him
with violation of federal law? [You can contact the US State
Department at: 202.647.4000; direct line to US Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice: 202.647.5291; e-mail: secretary@state.gov/Fax:
202.647.6434--ed] US State Department list of Foreign Terrorist
Organizations: <http://www.state.gov/coalition/cr/fs/12713.htm>
[Israel Today]