Rice said the administration explicitly warned former President Jimmy Carter against meeting with Hamas, the Palestinian faction that controls the Gaza Strip regarded by the US as a terror group. "The United States is not going to deal with Hamas and we had certainly told President Carter that we did not think meeting with Hamas was going to help" further a political settlement between Israel and the Palestinians, she said. |
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