Carter is already in the region, where he joined scores of foreign observers monitoring Sunday's elections in Lebanon
Former President Jimmy Carter will visit Syria, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza this week to promote constructive dialogue on the Israeli-Arab conflict, a spokeswoman for the Carter Center said.
Carter is already in the region, where he joined scores of foreign observers monitoring Sunday's elections in Lebanon, expected to present an early test of President Barack Obama's efforts to forge Middle East peace.
In a speech in Cairo Thursday, Obama promised to work aggressively to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and listed
confronting "violent extremism" as the top priority in addressing tensions between the U.S. and Muslims.
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