Bush trip aims to push Mideast peace
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President George W. Bush heads for the Middle East on Tuesday, aiming to nurture Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts in the face of deep skepticism while trying to rally Arab opposition to Iran.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Condoleezza Rice travels from Israel to meet Palestinian leaders on Thursday to try and break a logjam between the two sides before Washington hosts a major Middle East peace conference.
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MOUNT OF BEATITUDES, Israel  - Sending a symbolic message to Israeli and Palestinian leaders, U.S. President George W. Bush visited on Friday the site where Jesus is believed to have intoned "blessed are the peacemakers".
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U.S. President George W. Bush heads for the Middle East on Tuesday, aiming to nurture Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts in the face of deep skepticism while trying to rally Arab opposition to Iran.
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President Bush announced today that he will sponsor a new international conference this fall aimed at reviving moribund Middle East peace talks and paving the way toward a final settlement that would see a new Palestinian state existing side by side with Israel.
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On his first trip to Israel, the President will run up against an old obstacle to peace: settlements on the West Bank
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Leaders of Jewish, Christian and Muslim groups want to meet with President Bush to discuss a renewed role by the United States in Mideast peace initiatives.
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President Bush heads to Israel and the West Bank this week, hoping his first visit as U.S. leader will open the throttle on Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking.
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President George W. Bush paid homage to Holocaust victims before a biblical tour on Friday that will wrap up a Holy Land visit in which he urged Israelis and Palestinians to get serious about peace efforts.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday he would ask President George W. Bush, who visits the Middle East this week, to curb Israel's West Bank settlements for the sake of peace.
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President George W. Bush held talks  with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Middle East envoy  Tony Blair on Monday seeking to build momentum for a  Israeli-Palestinian peace conference.
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George W. Bush will make his first trip as U.S. president to Israel and the West Bank next month to try to shore up fragile peace efforts despite doubts about chances of a deal before he leaves office in 13 months.
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George W. Bush arrived on Wednesday on his first visit to Israel as U.S. president and said he saw a new opportunity for Israeli-Palestinian peace.
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US President Bush says he is ready to put pressure on Middle East peace negotiators, during his first visit to Israel.
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US President George W Bush is set to discuss the Palestinian Territories in talks with Israeli PM Ehud Olmert.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell, facing his last weeks on the job, will travel to Israel and the West Bank to try to accelerate prospects for peacemaking, the State Department announced Tuesday.
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President Bush is sending his national security adviser to the Middle East next week and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will make a return visit soon afterward to keep up pressure on Israeli and the Palestinians to start peace negotiations.