[Wall Street Journal] Bret Stephens - Former President Jimmy Carter is on a tour of the Middle East, which includes a scheduled meeting in Damascus with Khaled Mashal, the head of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Mashal is the author of the murder of several hundred Israeli civilians and not a few Americans, too. Hamas has never accepted the Oslo Accords that are the legal basis of the Palestinian Authority it seeks to govern. It does not seek an entente with Israel but its elimination. In meeting with a former U.S. president, Hamas seeks to burnish its reputation as a legitimate Mideast player, not an outlaw.
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