<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/953d97cc-b72d-48df-8b42-4f2235f0a3f0/576A3420-28F5-4DB9-B133-EFEE7A41979B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/11-2" href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/11-2" style="font-size: 11px;">www.commondreams.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/11-2">Carter Urges Lebanon, Israel to 'Seize Opportunity to Work Toward Peace'</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/11-2"><IMG width="350" height="242" align="bottom" alt="[Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, left, shakes hands with Lebanese Interior Minister Ziad Baroud during a meeting in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008. Carter began a five-day visit to Lebanon Tuesday where he will assess whether his Atlanta-based Carter Center will take part in monitoring parliamentary elections set for next May or June.(AP Photo/Ahmad Omar)]" class="imagefield imagefield-field_image" title="1211-carter.jpg" src="http://www.commondreams.org/files/article_images/1211-carter.jpg" />Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, left, shakes hands with Lebanese Interior Minister Ziad Baroud during a meeting in Beirut,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/11-2"><P>Carter voiced the hope that President-elect Barack Obama's new administration could usher in a new era of effective American diplomatic leadership in the region and across the world.</P><P>"Throughout the Middle East, there is hope that the United States will move more aggressively and persistently to help orchestrate a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the prism through which the region measures the US commitment to human rights," Carter wrote.</P><P>"Our next president has an unprecedented opportunity to lead through example by inspiring and supporting those who would reach for freedom and by being tough and effective with those who would impede freedom's march," he added.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/576A3420-28F5-4DB9-B133-EFEE7A41979B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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