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...first Middle East trip of his presidency closes, George W. Bush finds himself as deeply involved and committed to the politics of the region as any Arab or Israeli leader. In promising to "ride herd" on the Israelis and Palestinians to get them moving along his "roadmap" to peace, Bush has made his administration directly responsible for overseeing the day-to-day implementation and mediation of a new peace process that has aroused little optimism in the region. And he's taking on the role alongside the epic challenge of occupying and remaking Iraq...
...military victory has provided an awesome demonstration of U.S. power and resolve, and struck down the traditional boast of Osama bin Laden's propagandists that the U.S. is afraid of a fight. Considerably less certain, however, are the prospects for a rapid postwar transition in which Iraq becomes the Arab world's first democracy with a prosperity and Western orientation Washington hopes will serve as a wakeup call to a deeply troubled region...
...year-old PLO veteran who had spent most of his political career by Arafat's side, who still reports back to Arafat despite the U.S.-Israeli boycott of the Palestinian Authority president. The President may also have been somewhat frustrated to discover, in his meeting Tuesday with Arab leaders who back the "roadmap," that Arafat remains the leader of the Palestinians - the U.S. had hoped to persuade the meeting to issue a ringing endorsement of Abbas that would effectively crown him as the man in charge of Palestinian affairs, but the meeting instead undertook simply to "support the determination...
...roadmap" itself, instead allowing itself plenty of wiggle room by embracing "steps set out in the roadmap." That's because the full document suggests the endpoint of the process would be guided, in part, by United Nations Resolution 242 and last year's Saudi proposal endorsed by the Arab League, both of which offer Israel peace in exchange for withdrawal from territories seized...
...issue in the Oslo process. His senior party colleague, Reuven Rivlin has said that Sharon plans eventually to evacuate 17 of the 130 permanent Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, in order to allow for territorial contiguity. Suffice to say that neither Abbas nor any Palestinian or Arab leader could accept settle a final-status deal that left half the West Bank in Israeli hands...