Bush faces Mideast obstacles
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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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Fortified by his victory at the polls, President George W. Bush now faces pressing, unfinished business in Iraq where US forces are poised to storm insurgent strongholds to clear the way for January elections.
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George W. Bush on Wednesday began his first visit as U.S. president to Israel and the Palestinian territories, saying he saw a new opportunity for peace and that both sides were ready to make tough concessions.
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JERUSALEM, Jan. 9 -- President Bush, on the first visit here of his administration, demanded Wednesday that Israelis shut down unauthorized settler outposts on Palestinian territory, called on Palestinian authorities to take steps to halt rocket attacks against Israel and issued a sharp warning t...
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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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US President George W Bush asks for patience over Iraq - hailing Israel as a model for defining success there.
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President Bush is sending his national security adviser to the Middle East next week to keep up pressure on Israel and the Palestinians to reach agreement on launching formal peace talks, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday.
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THE prospect of George W. Bush spending four more years in the White House drew mixed reactions and a dose of caution in the troubled Middle East today.
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As President Bush presses Iraq to step up security efforts, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is turning her attention to a second U.S. front in the Middle East: cementing a long-stalled peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
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President Bush faces some unusually early foreign-policy decisions that will signal whether he&#39;ll stick with the aggressive, go-it-alone approach that dominated his first term or soften its edges with diplomacy.
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Senior Palestinian officials aspiring to succeed Yasser Arafat might have thought that their main obstacle would be Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon or his closest ally, the United States.
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Bush encounters weak welcomes for his call for an international peacemaking conference.
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Iran is the one issue where President Bush and Arab leaders have shared concerns. Ahead of the president's Mideast trip, Arab nations are eager to contain growing Iranian power, though they're wary of doing so militarily.
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Successful in persuading voters not to change leaders in wartime, President Bush faces a second term packed with problems bred in his first, from the need for an exit strategy in Iraq to the prospect of staggering budget deficits at home.
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Diplomacy and security will dominate the headlines of President Bush's visit to the Middle East, but important economic business will get done.
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By insisting it is, President Bush clouds the real issues, which are how much the U.S. should do for Israel and what it should do to Iran
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President Bush said on Sunday that  the United States stands ready to help the new Palestinian  president, Mahmoud Abbas, as he faces up to critical  post-election challenges combating militants and carrying out  reform.