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Snubbing Carter: Israel reacted angrily this week to former President Jimmy Carter’s plan to meet with leaders of Hamas, the militant Palestinian group that controls Gaza. The Shin Bet, the Israeli version of the FBI and Secret Service, refused to provide Carter with bodyguards—the first time a former U.S. official has ever been denied protection in Israel. Carter said talks with Hamas leaders, which he will hold in Syria after his Israel trip, have been put off for too long. “If Israel is ever going to find peace with justice concerning the relationship with their next-door neighbors, the Palestinians, Hamas will have to be included in the process,” Carter said. Carter, 83, negotiated peace between Israel and Egypt in 1979 and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

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