Carter Meets With Evil... Again

One meeting with Hamas thugs isn't enough. He's met with members of Hamas in Cairo, including one who actively advocates for Israel's destruction and who fancies that the Nazis didn't do a sufficient job.

In the face of such criticism, Carter traveled to Cairo to meet with Mahmoud Zahar, who controls Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. Zahar wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post Thursday decrying the "hideous straitjacket of apartheid" in Gaza and compared Israel to Nazi Germany.

"Sixty-five years ago, the courageous Jews of the Warsaw ghetto rose in defense of their people," he wrote. "We Gazans, living in the world's largest open-air prison, can do no less."

Carter continues to enable terrorists in Hamas, and Zahar's Washington Post op ed is as odious as they come. It's also studded with contradictions, including claims that no one should come to the bargaining table with preconditions, and yet not more than a few words later later, he is busy laying out the ludicrous conditions demanded by Hamas before they even consider stepping foot to a negotiating table.

The Washington Post continues to give terrorists like Zahar a bully pulpit from which to launch verbal assaults against Israel, and no one in the editorial board realizes the damage done by giving them such a podium. Still, it does provide an enlightening account of what Israel is up against. Diplomats expect Israel to make concessions of the nature demanded by Zahar before they even get to the bargaining table, despite the fact that no rational actor would ever submit to such a situation.

Carter isn't doing anything to advance the cause of peace with his trip to the region. If anything, he's setting it back still further because he is giving terrorists the impression that he can somehow advance their interests vis a vis Israel and the US even as the same terrorists are busy trying to kill Israelis at every opportunity.