Good for them! Israel's Shin Bet has refused to meet with former President Jimmy Carter's Secret Service detail to aid in security for Carter's planned visit to Sderot. And that deserves a double good for them! From the article over at Reuters here:
This appears to be the first time ever that Shin Bet has refused to cooperate with the Secret Service regarding a visit from any dignitary from the U.S. And who would wonder why when you consider:
1. Carter has labelled Israel as a monger of "apartheid" in the pali territories
2. Carter is meeting with Hamas leadership in Syria on the same trip
3. Carter has even asked to meet with convicted and jailed terrorist, Marwan Barghouthi.
I mean, this is absurd that Carter would even set foot in Israel - he is an enemy of the people of Israel and yet wants to be protected from the heathens he adores in Gaza! I've said it all along that Jimmy Carter went insane a number of years back and this is further testament to that fact. The man should be sitting in a home in Georgia somewhere taking some juice from a sippy cup and not out in the World pandering to known terrorists. He is an embarassment to America.
Israel's secret service has declined to assist U.S. agents guarding former U.S. President Jimmy Carter during a visit in which Israeli leaders have shunned him, U.S. sources close to the matter said on Monday.
American sources close to the matter said the Shin Bet security service, which helps protect visiting dignitaries and is overseen by Olmert's office, declined to meet the head of Carter's Secret Service security detail or provide his team with assistance as is customary during such visits.
"They're not getting support from local security," an American source said.
This appears to be the first time ever that Shin Bet has refused to cooperate with the Secret Service regarding a visit from any dignitary from the U.S. And who would wonder why when you consider:
1. Carter has labelled Israel as a monger of "apartheid" in the pali territories
2. Carter is meeting with Hamas leadership in Syria on the same trip
3. Carter has even asked to meet with convicted and jailed terrorist, Marwan Barghouthi.
I mean, this is absurd that Carter would even set foot in Israel - he is an enemy of the people of Israel and yet wants to be protected from the heathens he adores in Gaza! I've said it all along that Jimmy Carter went insane a number of years back and this is further testament to that fact. The man should be sitting in a home in Georgia somewhere taking some juice from a sippy cup and not out in the World pandering to known terrorists. He is an embarassment to America.
Israel snubs Carter, declines security help
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's secret service has declined to assist U.S. agents guarding former U.S. President Jimmy Carter during a visit in which Israeli leaders have shunned him, U.S. sources close to the matter said on Monday.
Carter angered the Israeli government with plans to meet Hamas's top leader, Khaled Meshaal, in Syria, and for describing Israeli policy in the occupied Palestinian territories as "a system of apartheid" in a 2006 book.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner, who brokered Israel's first peace treaty with an Arab neighbor, Egypt, signed in 1979, met Israel's largely ceremonial president, Shimon Peres, on Sunday but was shunned by the political leadership, including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Israel has also rejected Carter's request to meet jailed Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouthi, who is seen as a possible successor to President Mahmoud Abbas, a spokesman for Carter said.
Barghouthi was convicted in 2004 of murder by an Israeli court over the killing of four Israelis and a Greek Orthodox monk in attacks by Palestinian militants. He is serving five life sentences.
Another source described the snub as an "unprecedented" breach between the Israeli Shin Bet and the U.S. Secret Service, which protects all current and former U.S. presidents, as well as Israeli leaders when they visit the United States.
Carter included the southern Israeli town of Sderot on his itinerary. The area is often hit by rockets from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and one of the sources described the lack of Shin Bet assistance there as particularly "problematic".
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