Peres told Carter that it wouldn't work. The State Department asked him not to do it. Even Abbas is saying told ya so:

Meanwhile, Abbas said on Tuesday that Carter failed in his attempt to talk Hamas into accepting a future two-state peace deal with Israel. "Carter gave them [Hamas] the right advice," Abbas told reporters in Iceland, where he made a stopover en route to talks with U.S. President George W. Bush in the United States. "He urged Hamas to accept a two-state solution and accept past Palestinian agreements with Israel, but unfortunately he failed to convince them and his visit did not end up with positive results."

And yet somehow Carter didn't manage to swing Hamas over to what the Palestinian public really wants: peace with Israel. And you know why? Because that's bullshit on a stick:

The number of Palestinians who support attacks against Israelis continues to rise and more than half of them favor suicide bombings, according to a poll published this weekend. The survey also showed that Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh is still more popular than Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The percentage of Palestinians who support "resistance operations" against Israeli targets rose from 43.1 percent in September 2006 to 49.5% at present. Support for this option was highest in the Gaza Strip, at 58.1percent, with 24.5percent in the West Bank agreeing.

Which helps to explain why a four year old Israeli boy had to get hit by a Palestinian rocket yesterday. And another house had to get hit today.

Obama better be careful. Another couple polls like this and he'll lose his really, really awful excuse for embracing Iran while ostracizing Hamas:

Time for another round of distinctions without a difference. How does the Iranian mullahcracy differ from Hamas on any of these points except insofar as they possess the dubious “legitimacy” that comes with rigging elections to secure their own power by disqualifying candidates of whom the regime disapproves?... Someone needs to push this guy on this subject because his talismanic invocation of statehood makes no sense, particularly when the left’s own gold standard for diplomatic legitimacy draws no similar line in deciding whom it’ll talk to.

His real excuse, of course, is that "this is the kind of nuance that really makes leftists feel sophisticated". And that never goes out of style.

References:
* Peres Notifies Carter: Actually You're Kind Of A Vicious Tool [MR]
* Carter: Surprisingly, I Failed To Get Hamas To Stop Trying To Murder Israelis [MR]
* Obama wary of Carter's report of breakthrough with Hamas [Ha'aretz]
* Palestinians' backing for terror rises [JPost]
* Qassam rocket hits home in Sderot [YNet]
* Waffle digested, Obama finally answers question about Carter and Hamas [Hot Air]

Previously:
* Turning Over A New Leaf Watch
* Palestinian Moderate With No Power Takes Bold Left Wing Position: Palestinians Willing To Give Up Something They're Not Entitled To In Exchange For Total Israeli Capitulation
* New Poll: "Overwhelming Majority" Of Palestinians Support Murderous Rampages Against Israeli Schoolchildren, Rocket Attacks Against Civilians (Plus: It's Israel's Fault)