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JERUSALEM - 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 told Reuters on Monday.

Meantime, the ex-president toured a rocket-battered Israeli town, saying he deplored Palestinian militant attacks on Israel.

Carter angered the Israeli government with plans to meet Hamas’ top leader, Khaled Mashaal, 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.

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.

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.

“The most important single foreign policy goal in my life has been to bring peace to Israel, and peace and justice to Israel’s neighbors. I have done everything I could in office and since I left office to do that,” the paper quoted Carter as saying.

Israel and the United States have sought to isolate Hamas, which seized control of the Gaza Strip in June from more secular Fatah forces loyal to Abbas. Abbas holds sway in the occupied West Bank and has launched U.S.-backed peace talks with Olmert.

Hamas leaders have offered a long-term truce with Israel in return for a viable Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, but the group’s 1988 founding charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state.

If Former US President and Nobel Peace Prize winner is physically harmed during his visit who should be the primary blame? and is this example of Israel arrogant attitude "If you don't believe as we do then you are against us."

Jimmy Carter is the primary blame.
Israel is the primary blame.
The US Government is the primary blame.
Yes, this is an example of Israel's arrogance.
No, this is not example of Israel's arrogance.
Other, refer to my comment...
let's invite the israeli president, and don't protect him
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Submitted by : Barbara_Baby_Cakes
Submitted on : Apr 15,2008 12:30:48 am
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Was it something Jimmy said?

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Voted : Yes, this is an example of Israel's arrogance.
That's really outrageous. It's childish and very short-sighted of them. To go against protocol and procedures like that is very wrong of them. Jimmy Carter is very popular and well respected, so this is a mistake on the Israeli government's part.

by patch22us [+]

Voted : Yes, this is an example of Israel's arrogance.
If he is physically harmed during this visit, I would look no further than the Mossad.

by _Beelzebubba [+]

"Jimmy Carter is very popular and well respected"

That is highly debatable.

Israel normally only provides security for sitting heads of state. Not former ones. Whether or not they were even asked for security help is very much in dispute.

"I would look no further than the Mossad."

Yeah, whatever. How about looking for the facts first?

by FiddleFaddleOnLSD [+]

Voted : let's invite the israeli president, and don't protect him
return the favor.

by LCD [+]

^Current heads of state are always provided security services. What's your point? Carter isn't president anymore even if he hasn't realized that yet.

by FiddleFaddleOnLSD [+]