Hamas in the News

Well, they're certainly going to get headlined today. First, there's Hamas in Iraq claiming that al Qaeda in Iraq is working closely with Iran. Considering how close Hamas is with Iran, they should know.

Then, there's a report that the despicable former President Jimmy Carter is planning on meeting with the Islamic terrorist group Hamas. On his itinerary is a trip to Damascus that apparently includes a get together with Khalid Meshaal, one of the terror masters of Hamas.

Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly preparing an unprecedented meeting with the leader of Hamas, an organization that the U.S. government considers one of the leading terrorist threats in the world.

The Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Tuesday that Carter was planning a trip to Syria for mid-April, during which he would meet with Khaled Meshal, the exiled head of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, on April 18.

Deanna Congileo, Carter’s press secretary, confirmed in an e-mail to FOXNews.com that Carter will be in the Mideast in April. Pressed for comment, Congileo did not deny that the former president is considering visiting Meshal.

“President Carter is planning a trip to the Mideast next week; however, we are still confirming details of the trip and will issue a press release by the end of this week,” wrote Congileo. “I cannot confirm any specific meetings at this point in time.”

Meshal, who lives in Syria to avoid being arrested by the Israeli government, leads Hamas from his seat in Damascus, where he is a guest of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Meshaal lives in Syria because he knows that Israel would surely target him not for arrest, but by airstrikes for his leadership in an incessant and ongoing war against Israel. Meshaal leads the terrorist group and calls for Israel's destruction at every turn, except when he calls for a hudna in order for his terrorists to regroup after getting pasted by Israeli forces. Carter, of course, will fall for the hudna as though it is a true ceasefire and grounds for further talks.

Carter repeatedly provides legitimacy to terrorist groups, thuggish dictators, and puts rubber stamps on flawed and bogus elections around the world, and he's about to do the same once again by going to Syria.

One has to wonder how and why the US State Department and President Bush have signed off on allowing Carter to visit Damascus and terror groups on the State Department list? This surely can't be part of a back-channel approach to diplomacy since that is contingent on secrecy. Carter's visits will be anything but a secret. They will be touted as a sign of legitimacy and used against Israel - claiming that Israel is the intransigent party that must make more concessions for the sake of "peace."