
A Race Against Time and Implausibility
By CARLOS SOUSA
|This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.

JERUSALEM — A former president, James Carter, angered Israel’s government yesterday by embracing a Hamas politician during a visit to the West Bank. Israel accused Mr. Carter, the broker of the first Arab-Israeli peace accord, of “dignifying” extremists. But Mr. Carter vowed to meet Hamas’s supreme leader, Khaled Mashaal, this week in Syria.

By CARLOS SOUSA
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By DANIEL COHEN
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By DAVID JONES
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By ROSS ANDERSON
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By DAVID JONES
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By JOSEPH CURL
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By JOSEPH CURL
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By DONALD KIRK
|JERUSALEM — A former president, James Carter, angered Israel’s government yesterday by embracing a Hamas politician during a visit to the West Bank. Israel accused Mr. Carter, the broker of the first Arab-Israeli peace accord, of “dignifying” extremists. But Mr. Carter vowed to meet Hamas’s supreme leader, Khaled Mashaal, this week in Syria.
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