Carter’s Meetings on Israel’s Land Coincide with 18 Moderate and Minor Midwest Earthquakes and Two Metro Washington DC Tornadoes
Carter’s Meetings on Israel’s Land Coincide with 18 Moderate and Minor Midwest Earthquakes and Two Metro Washington DC Tornadoes
Friday: Carter in Syria to Meet Assad and Mashaal
Jimmy Carter met Friday with Syrian President Bashar Assad before holding talks with Hamas' exiled political chief Khaled Mashaal.
Carter's meetings with Hamas have drawn sharp criticism from Israelis, U.S. officials. Washington lists Hamas as a terrorist group.
Ynet reported, that former President Carter met Friday with the exiled leader of Hamas and the group's deputy chief, men the US government has labeled as global terrorists and Israel accuses of masterminding suicide bombings and kidnappings.
Friday: 5.2 earthquake rocks large region of Midwest - AP
WEST SALEM, Ill. (AP) — Residents across the Midwest were awakened Friday by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that rattled skyscrapers in Chicago's Loop and homes in Cincinnati but appeared to cause no major injuries or damage.
The earthquake struck southern Illinois about six miles north of Mount Carmel, at 4:37 a.m., violently shaking people from their beds, swaying Chicago skyscrapers and vibrating the earth as far east as Georgia.
It was felt in such distant cities as Milwaukee, Des Moines, Iowa, and Atlanta, nearly 400 miles to the southeast.
The strongest quake produced in recent history by the Wabash area was a magnitude 5.3 in southern Illinois in 1968, but researchers have found evidence that 4,000 to 6,000 years ago, much stronger quakes shook the region, Kim said, as strong as magnitude 7.0 or more.
Saturday: Carter meets with King Abdullah in Saudi Arabia - Fox
Following his second round of talks with Mashaal, the former US president traveled to Saudi Arabia, where he and King Abdullah discussed "matters of mutual interest," the official Saudi Arabian news agency reported, without elaborating.
Sunday: Jordan's Abdullah to Carter: Israel must lift blockade of Gaza - CNN
AMMAN - King Abdullah II of Jordan conferred Sunday with former U.S. president Jimmy Carter and said that Israel must lift the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip and stop expanding Jewish settlements on Palestinian land.
In a royal court statement, the king also stressed the need for "tangible progress" in the ongoing peace negotiations between Israel and Palestinians.
"The monarch underscored the importance of achieving tangible progress in the peace talks between the two sides and ensuring the availability of circumstances that lead to success of the negotiating process and the setting up of an independent Palestinian state," a royal court statement said.
King Abdullah expressed "appreciation for Carter's active role and contributions towards the establishment of peace in the region, ending the Arab Israeli conflict and boosting world peace".
Sunday: A pair of tornadoes struck Metro Washington - CNN
A pair of tornadoes struck suburban Washington on Sunday, mangling trees and stripping siding off several homes, the National Weather Service confirmed.
The first tornado hit St. Charles, Maryland -- about 30 miles south of Washington -- just after 2 p.m. It uprooted several trees, many of which fell onto cars and homes.
The strongest wind from that touchdown was 80 mph -- enough force to blow out windows.
A second tornado followed about 30 minutes later outside Hyattsville, Maryland -- about 10 miles northeast of the capital.
The high-speed winds, peaking at 100 mph, hit the George E. Peters Adventist
School especially hard, tearing off a portion of the roof and flinging it and mounds of debris into the parking lot.
Monday: Carter: Hamas Willing to Accept Israel as 'Neighbor Next Door in Peace' - Jerusalem Post
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Monday that Hamas — the Islamic militant group known for its suicide bombings and rocket attacks on Israel — is prepared to accept the Jewish state's right to "live as a neighbor next door in peace."
Hamas is also ready prepared to accept the outcome of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, provided it is approved in a Palestinian referendum, or by a Palestinian government chosen in new elections, Carter said.
However, a Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip said Hamas wouldn't be bound by a referendum's results.
In the past, Hamas officials have said they would establish a "peace in stages" if Israel were to withdraw to the frontiers it held before the 1967 Mideast War.
But it has been evasive about how it sees the final borders of a Palestinian state, and has not abandoned its official call for Israel's destruction. Hamas leaders "said that they would accept a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders" and they would "accept the right of Israel to live as a neighbor next door in peace," he said.
Carter made the comments during a speech in Jerusalem on Monday during an event hosted by the Israeli Council of Foreign Relations.
Hamas turns down truce proposal
Carter said that Hamas turned down his proposal for a 30-day unilateral ceasefire with Israel. He said Hamas did not trust Israel to respond to such a truce.
The former US President also said it's a "problem" that Israel and the US refuse to meet with Hamas. "The problem is not that I met with Hamas in Syria," he said. "The problem is that Israel and the United States refuse to meet with someone who must be involved."
Carter also said Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking has "regressed" since a US-hosted Mideast conference in Annapolis, Maryland, in November.
Speaking about the possibility of renewed peace talks between Israel and Syria, he said Syria wants the US to play a "strong role" in bringing to two sides together.
Monday: A 4.5-magnitude earthquake shook southern - AP
A 4.5-magnitude earthquake shook southern Illinois early Monday, the latest in a string of quakes that have rattled the region since last week, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The quake -- the 18th since a magnitude 5.2 hit the area Friday morning -- was centered about six miles below ground and about 37 miles (60 km) north-northwest of Evansville, Indiana, or about 131 miles (211 km) east of St. Louis.
It struck at 12:38 a.m. local time (1:38 a.m. ET). There were no immediate reports of damage.
The 18 quakes that followed Friday's moderate temblor have predominantly been minor earthquakes -- magnitude 3.9 and below.
Friday's quake was the strongest to hit in the region in 40 years.
Friday: Carter in Syria to Meet Assad and Mashaal
Jimmy Carter met Friday with Syrian President Bashar Assad before holding talks with Hamas' exiled political chief Khaled Mashaal.
Carter's meetings with Hamas have drawn sharp criticism from Israelis, U.S. officials. Washington lists Hamas as a terrorist group.
Ynet reported, that former President Carter met Friday with the exiled leader of Hamas and the group's deputy chief, men the US government has labeled as global terrorists and Israel accuses of masterminding suicide bombings and kidnappings.
Friday: 5.2 earthquake rocks large region of Midwest - AP
WEST SALEM, Ill. (AP) — Residents across the Midwest were awakened Friday by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that rattled skyscrapers in Chicago's Loop and homes in Cincinnati but appeared to cause no major injuries or damage.
The earthquake struck southern Illinois about six miles north of Mount Carmel, at 4:37 a.m., violently shaking people from their beds, swaying Chicago skyscrapers and vibrating the earth as far east as Georgia.
It was felt in such distant cities as Milwaukee, Des Moines, Iowa, and Atlanta, nearly 400 miles to the southeast.
The strongest quake produced in recent history by the Wabash area was a magnitude 5.3 in southern Illinois in 1968, but researchers have found evidence that 4,000 to 6,000 years ago, much stronger quakes shook the region, Kim said, as strong as magnitude 7.0 or more.
Saturday: Carter meets with King Abdullah in Saudi Arabia - Fox
Following his second round of talks with Mashaal, the former US president traveled to Saudi Arabia, where he and King Abdullah discussed "matters of mutual interest," the official Saudi Arabian news agency reported, without elaborating.
Sunday: Jordan's Abdullah to Carter: Israel must lift blockade of Gaza - CNN
AMMAN - King Abdullah II of Jordan conferred Sunday with former U.S. president Jimmy Carter and said that Israel must lift the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip and stop expanding Jewish settlements on Palestinian land.
In a royal court statement, the king also stressed the need for "tangible progress" in the ongoing peace negotiations between Israel and Palestinians.
"The monarch underscored the importance of achieving tangible progress in the peace talks between the two sides and ensuring the availability of circumstances that lead to success of the negotiating process and the setting up of an independent Palestinian state," a royal court statement said.
King Abdullah expressed "appreciation for Carter's active role and contributions towards the establishment of peace in the region, ending the Arab Israeli conflict and boosting world peace".
Sunday: A pair of tornadoes struck Metro Washington - CNN
A pair of tornadoes struck suburban Washington on Sunday, mangling trees and stripping siding off several homes, the National Weather Service confirmed.
The first tornado hit St. Charles, Maryland -- about 30 miles south of Washington -- just after 2 p.m. It uprooted several trees, many of which fell onto cars and homes.
The strongest wind from that touchdown was 80 mph -- enough force to blow out windows.
A second tornado followed about 30 minutes later outside Hyattsville, Maryland -- about 10 miles northeast of the capital.
The high-speed winds, peaking at 100 mph, hit the George E. Peters Adventist
School especially hard, tearing off a portion of the roof and flinging it and mounds of debris into the parking lot.
Monday: Carter: Hamas Willing to Accept Israel as 'Neighbor Next Door in Peace' - Jerusalem Post
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Monday that Hamas — the Islamic militant group known for its suicide bombings and rocket attacks on Israel — is prepared to accept the Jewish state's right to "live as a neighbor next door in peace."
Hamas is also ready prepared to accept the outcome of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, provided it is approved in a Palestinian referendum, or by a Palestinian government chosen in new elections, Carter said.
However, a Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip said Hamas wouldn't be bound by a referendum's results.
In the past, Hamas officials have said they would establish a "peace in stages" if Israel were to withdraw to the frontiers it held before the 1967 Mideast War.
But it has been evasive about how it sees the final borders of a Palestinian state, and has not abandoned its official call for Israel's destruction. Hamas leaders "said that they would accept a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders" and they would "accept the right of Israel to live as a neighbor next door in peace," he said.
Carter made the comments during a speech in Jerusalem on Monday during an event hosted by the Israeli Council of Foreign Relations.
Hamas turns down truce proposal
Carter said that Hamas turned down his proposal for a 30-day unilateral ceasefire with Israel. He said Hamas did not trust Israel to respond to such a truce.
The former US President also said it's a "problem" that Israel and the US refuse to meet with Hamas. "The problem is not that I met with Hamas in Syria," he said. "The problem is that Israel and the United States refuse to meet with someone who must be involved."
Carter also said Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking has "regressed" since a US-hosted Mideast conference in Annapolis, Maryland, in November.
Speaking about the possibility of renewed peace talks between Israel and Syria, he said Syria wants the US to play a "strong role" in bringing to two sides together.
Monday: A 4.5-magnitude earthquake shook southern - AP
A 4.5-magnitude earthquake shook southern Illinois early Monday, the latest in a string of quakes that have rattled the region since last week, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The quake -- the 18th since a magnitude 5.2 hit the area Friday morning -- was centered about six miles below ground and about 37 miles (60 km) north-northwest of Evansville, Indiana, or about 131 miles (211 km) east of St. Louis.
It struck at 12:38 a.m. local time (1:38 a.m. ET). There were no immediate reports of damage.
The 18 quakes that followed Friday's moderate temblor have predominantly been minor earthquakes -- magnitude 3.9 and below.
Friday's quake was the strongest to hit in the region in 40 years.
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