{"id":3079,"date":"2008-04-15T03:53:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T09:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3079"},"modified":"2008-04-15T04:17:40","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T10:17:40","slug":"israel-refused-to-guard-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3079","title":{"rendered":"Israel refused to guard Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"3\">Ex-president tours rocket-hit town, draws ire over planned Hamas meeting<\/font><br \/>\n<strong>MSNBC News Services<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/24107417\/\">updated 12:22 p.m. CT, Mon., April. 14, 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JERUSALEM &#8211; Israel\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n<p>Meantime, the ex-president toured a rocket-battered Israeli town, saying he deplored Palestinian militant attacks on Israel. <\/p>\n<p>Carter angered the Israeli government with plans to meet Hamas\u2019 top leader, Khaled Mashaal, in Syria, and for describing Israeli policy in the occupied Palestinian territories as \u201ca system of apartheid\u201d in a 2006 book. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an event organized by an Israeli financial newspaper, Carter said Monday that he wanted to become a \u201ccommunicator\u201d between Hamas and the U.S. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope then the Israeli government will deign to meet with me \u2014 they have so far refused,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/24107417\/\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-president tours rocket-hit town, draws ire over planned Hamas meeting MSNBC News Services updated 12:22 p.m. CT, Mon., April. 14, 2008 JERUSALEM &#8211; Israel\u2019s secret service has declined to assist U.S. agents guarding former U.S. President Jimmy Carter during a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3079\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-NF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}