[Augusta [GA] Chronicle] Editorial - Is there no America-hating, anti-Israel thug that Jimmy Carter wouldn't do business with? On his Mideast travels this month, Carter is planning to meet in Syria with Khaled Meshal, the exiled head henchman of Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group that refuses to recognize the existence of Israel, is waging war against it, and pledges to destroy the Jewish state. Being an ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, when Carter meets with a top terrorist thug, it enhances the legitimacy and stature of that thug in the eyes of the rest of the world. It might encourage European and other nations to loosen sanctions against Hamas when the U.S. government seeks to tighten them. Carter's doing more than embarrassing his nation. He's betraying it.
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