In his newsletter, Bauer writes:

Former President Jimmy Carter is in the Middle East this week making a mockery of Western resolve to defeat Islamofascism. Carter is scheduled to meet with Hamas leader Khalid Meshal in Damascus on Friday, a meeting he tried to justify by saying, “I’m just trying to understand different opinions and provide communication between people. …So I think if he does have anything constructive to say…then I would bring that to other people.” For those who may not fully comprehend Hamas or the man Jimmy Carter wants to “understand,” here’s a quote from Meshal in 2006: “Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day. Allah willing, we will make them lose their eyesight, we will make them lose their brains.” How “constructive” is that?

Yesterday, Carter hugged and kissed a leading Hamas official and honored the terrorist thug Yasser Arafat by laying a wreath on his grave. Of course, the former president is not authorized by the U.S. government or anyone else to negotiate anything. But his decision to sit down with the leaders of Hamas, a group that has the blood of innocent Israelis and Americans on its hands, is deeply disturbing. Hamas has one overarching goal -- the destruction of the state of Israel. Along with Ahmadinejad of Iran, Hamas desires a second Holocaust. On what basis does one negotiate with such evil?

Meanwhile, the Palestinian ambassador to Lebanon, Abbas Zaki, said last week on Lebanese television, “…after we take Jerusalem, Israel’s ideology will collapse altogether, and then we will proceed with our own ideology, if Allah wills, and we will throw them [Jewish Israelis] out of all Palestine.” Also last week, Yunis al-Astal, an imam and Hamas member of parliament, told Palestinian worshippers in a sermon Friday, “Very soon, Allah willing, Rome will be conquered, just like Constantinople was…” He described Rome as “the Crusader capital, which … has planted the brothers of apes and pigs in Palestine in order to prevent the reawakening of Islam,” and declared that it would become “an advanced post for the Islamic conquests, which will spread through Europe in its entirety, and then will turn to the two Americas…”