Carter Embraces Hamas Official At West Bank Meeting
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JERUSALEM — A former president, James Carter, angered Israel’s government yesterday by embracing a Hamas politician during a visit to the West Bank. Israel accused Mr. Carter, the broker of the first Arab-Israeli peace accord, of “dignifying” extremists. But Mr. Carter vowed to meet Hamas’s supreme leader, Khaled Mashaal, this week in Syria.
Mr. Carter, a Nobel Peace laureate, laid a wreath at Yasser Arafat’s grave in another break with American policy during a private peace mission to the Middle East that includes stops in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. Mr. Carter returns to Israel on Monday.
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