More than 50 Republicans and Democrats Call on Carter Not to Meet with Hamas Leader

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U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.), along with more than 50 leading House Republicans and Democrats, today sent a bipartisan letter to former President Jimmy Carter calling on him not to meet with Hamas leader Khaled Meshal. Hamas terrorists are responsible for the murders of at least 26 American citizens. The text with signatories appears below, or click here to download a copy of the original letter:

April 15, 2008

President Carter
The Carter Center
One Copenhill
453 Freedom Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30307

Dear President Carter:

On April 8, 2008, Al-Hayat reported that you were planning to visit Syria to meet with Hamas leader Khaled Meshal.

The U.S. State Department lists Hamas as a foreign terrorist organization. Hamas terrorists are responsible for the murders of at least 26 American citizens—some of them teenagers, children and infants:

David Applebaum of Ohio; Nava Applebaum, 20, of Ohio; Alan Beer of Ohio; Marla Bennet of California; Benjamin Blutstein of Pennsylvania; David Boim, 17, of New York; Yael Botwin, 14, of California; Dina Carter of North Carolina; Janis Ruth Coulter of Massachusetts; Sara Duker of New Jersey; Matthew Eisenfeld of Connecticut; Tzvi Goldstein of New York; Judith Greenbaum of New Jersey; David Gritz of Massachusetts; Dina Horowitz of Florida; Rabbi Eli Horowitz of Illinois; Tehilla Nathanson, 3, of New York; Malka Roth, 15, of New York; Mordechai Reinitz of New York; Yitzhak Reinitz, 9, of New York; Leah Stern of New Jersey; Goldie Taubenfeld of New York; Shmuel Taubenfeld, 3 months, of New York; Nachshon Wachsman, 19, of New York; Ira Weinstein of New York; and Yitzhak Weinstock, 19, of California.

President Carter, do not meet with the man who ordered their deaths.

Sincerely,

Mark Steven Kirk
Shelley Berkley
John Boehner
Roy Blunt
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Eric Cantor
Tom Reynolds
Robert Wexler
Jim Saxton
Eliot Engel
Brad Sherman
Mike Pence
Dan Burton
Barney Frank
Mark Souder
David Dreier
Carolyn Maloney
Peter King
Jerrold Nadler
Sam Johnson
Thaddeus McCotter
Michael McNulty
Gresham Barrett
John Campbell
Steven Rothman
Ron Klein
Candice Miller
Peter Roskam
Anthony Weiner
Joe Wilson
Howard Coble
Vern Buchanan
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Joe Knollenberg
Jon Porter
J. Randy Kuhl
Ted Poe
Scott Garrett
Trent Franks
Jeb Hensarling
Robin Hayes
Denny Rehberg
Marsha Blackburn
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Chris Shays
Frank LoBiondo
Todd Platts
John McHugh
Doug Lamborn
Donald Manzullo
Vito Fossella
Allyson Schwartz
John Carter
Jim Gerlach
John Doolittle

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