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I hesitated to write about Carter's trip to the Middle East to meet with leaders of the terrorist group Hamas because the last thing this meeting deserves is publicity. I have noticed that coverage of his trip has been sparse and deservedly so.

Yet the total ramification of this unauthorized meeting with a recognized terrorist group goes far beyond just ignoring the ramblings of an ex-president who undermines US policy and has become a joke because of his continual search for yet another 15 minutes in the news.

The White House specifically asked him NOT to make the trip. The State Department specifically asked him NOT to make the trip. A bipartisan group of 50 Congressman sent a letter to Carter beseeching him NOT to meet with Hamas and listed 26 Americans who have been killed by direct order of the very Hamas leader Carter is meeting with. Israel asked him NOT to meet with Hamas. In fact the only Israeli official who would meet with Carter, President Shimon Peres, scolded Carter for the planned meeting.

Yet Carter still insists on the meeting. He has already been seen embracing a key Hamas leader, Nasser Shaer and meeting in a closed door session with him. Shaer summed up the feelings of Hamas concerning why they see the meeting with Carter as helpful for them when he said, "Carter has weight and respect, and I hope he'll have a role and effect on the Palestinian problem." I disagree with the word , "respect, " because he has lost a considerable amount of that because of his past actions and this trip diminishes it even more.

He has placed a wreath on the grave of terrorist and former PLO leader Yassar Arafat praising him as a man who fought for, "just causes." So the murder of innocent women and children, thousands of Israelis and the looting of billions of dollars from the very Palestinians he claimed to serve are considered, " just causes, " by Jimmy Carter ?

Carter will travel to Egypt where he will meet with Hamas leaders living in exile after their, "government, " in the Gaza strip unraveled last year in favor of the recognized Palestinian government under President Mahmoud Abbas.

Carter's meeting with Hamas not only undermines US and Israeli policy concerning the terrorist group but it countermands all ongoing processes in the region both by Israel, the recognized Palestinian government and most importantly the US State Department. In addition his meeting dignifies a terrorist group that the world recognizes as such and not as a viable government entity.

Hamas has refused to renounce terrorism and also refuses to recognize Israels right to exists and as such The United States and most world governments list them as a terrorist organization. They are supported by both Iran and Syria also recognized as teroorist States. Their, (Hamas), actions in killing innocents by homicide bombings and other such terrorist attacks also confirms their terrorist classification.

Carter's meeting legitimizes this group and is in direct conflict with US policy toward a known terrorist entity and the longstanding policy of the US to NOT negotiate with terrorists. In many respects Carter's meeting with Hamas satisfies the Constitutional description of treason.

Article III Section 3 of the United States Constitution states, " Treason against The United States consist only in levying War against them, or in adhearing to their enemies, giving Aid and Comfort."

If this meeting by Carter does NOT fall under the , "aid and comfort, " clause then nothing does. He is aiding a recognized murderer of American citizens, a recognized and admitted enemy of the United States and a known terrorist group in a time of war. While Hamas is not directly involved with the US in the War on Terror, the overtures that it presents to those terrorist entities that we are fighting is that The United States WILL negotiate because a former President has negotiated with Hamas.

From a historical perspective what if former President Herbert Hoover had traveled to Germany or Japan in 1941 and negotiated with Hitler or Tojo ? Would that have been considered treason ? Absolutely ! While Hamas is not in a declared war with The United States the ramifications of Carter's meetings are similar to a hypothetical situation as mentioned with Hoover and Hitler or Tojo.

Jimmy Carter was a joke as President and he has become an even bigger joke as an ex-president. The problem now is that joke is threatening US policy, security and our ability to assist in the trouble in the Middle East. He has turned his back on his country, our allies and persists on helping enemies of The United States. That my friends IS TREASON!!

Ken Taylor http://theliberalslies.blogspot.com