http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080415/ap_on_re_mi_ea/palestinians_carter]Carter embraces Hamas official at West Bank meeting (AP)[/URL]



AP - Former President Carter angered Israel's government Tuesday by embracing a Hamas politician during a visit to the West Bank, ignoring Israeli and U.S. designation of the Islamic militants as a terror group. Israel accused Carter, the broker of the first Arab-Israeli peace accord, of "dignifying" extremists. But Carter vowed to meet Hamas' supreme leader this week in Syria.