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 AIRPORT CITY, Israel (AP) - Heading into talks with Palestinian leaders, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter offered to ferry messages from the militant Islamic Hamas group to the United States and even to Israel.
However, both potential recipients expressed displeasure at his planned meeting Friday with an exiled Hamas leader in Damascus, Syria. Carter meets Tuesday with Palestinian leaders in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Carter — who brokered Israel's historic peace accord with Egypt in 1979 — on Monday defended his plan to meet Hamas supreme leader Khaled Mashaal, saying that isolating Hamas is counterproductive. He has no plans to visit the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
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