Just what this country needs. A former failed President getting involved where he doesn't belong! Who gives a crap that he got an award from the left wing Nobel Peace committee. Everyone knows he's anti-Israeli like Obama is.

Former President Carter to Visit Gaza, West Bank This Week
Former President Jimmy Carter will visit Syria, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza this week to promote constructive dialogue on the Israeli-Arab conflict, a spokeswoman for the Carter Center said Sunday.

ATLANTA -- Former President Jimmy Carter will visit Syria, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza this week to promote constructive dialogue on the Israeli-Arab conflict, a spokeswoman for the Carter Center said Sunday.

Carter, 84, is already in the region, where he joined scores of foreign observers monitoring Sunday's elections in Lebanon, expected to present an early test of President Obama's efforts to forge Middle East peace.

In a speech in Cairo Thursday, Obama promised to work aggressively to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and listed confronting "violent extremism" as the top priority in addressing tensions between the U.S. and Muslims.

Deanna Congileo, a spokeswoman for the Atlanta-based Carter Center, which works to advance peace and health worldwide, said details of the rest of Carter's itinerary will be available later this week.

The Carter Center is among international and local missions monitoring the election pitting Western-backed anti-Syrian groups that hold the parliamentary majority in Lebanon against a Hezbollah-led coalition supported by Syria and Iran.

A win by the Shiite militant group would boost the influence of its backers Iran and Syria and risk pushing one the region's most volatile nations into international isolation and possibly more conflict with Israel.

Speaking at a polling station in Beirut's Christian sector of Ashrafieh Sunday, Carter expressed hope the U.S., Iran and other countries "will accept the results of the election and not try to interfere in the process."

Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his efforts to promote peace after he left the presidency in 1981. Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter founded the nonprofit Carter Center in 1982.

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