Takeover by Hamas Illustrates Failure of Bush's Mideast Vision
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Five years ago this month, President Bush stood in the Rose Garden and laid out a vision for the Middle East that included Israel and a state called Palestine living together in peace. "I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders, leaders not compromised by terror," the president declared.
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Bush's call for renewed talks between Israelis and Palestinians leaves out the parties who could give lasting peace a chance
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President George W. Bush has all but abandoned his goal of Palestinian statehood next year, opting instead to spend the next four years trying to help &quot;a truly free state develop&quot; alongside Israel.
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Viewpoint: The West is betting that continued Palestinian misery will force Hamas leaders to recognize Israel. But the strategy is as misguided as it is cruel
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President Bushâs vaguely worded proposal has muddied what had been shaping up as a black-and-white showdown between Europe and the United States.
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World powers have largely abandoned hope that Hamas radicals will drop anti-Israel positions that have riven the Palestinian leadership and led to a cutoff of direct international aid. Now diplomats are looking for a new approach.
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Israeli intelligence is struggling to get to grips with highly sophisticated Hamas in West Bank bastion. By Majeda El-Batsh - HEBRON, West Bank.
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Why the American President's agenda for the region doesn't square with the perspectives of the area's Arab populace
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President George W. Bush was the first US president to call for an independent Palestinian state and has pledged that his administration, unlike its predecessors, won&#39;t shore up Arab dictators.
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A U.S.-sponsored international conference on Israeli-Palestinian peace is doomed to fail because it will serve only Israel's interests, Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said in a CNN interview broadcast on Monday.
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Abbas dissolves the government, but  Hamas now controls Gaza. For Israel, the choice is between trying to reverse that reality, or dealing  with the Islamists
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President Bush called for a halt to Israel's military occupation of land the Palestinians claim for a state and an end to the terrorist threat over the Jewish homeland, spelling out the U.S. bottom line Thursday for ending the long and bloody Mideast conflict.
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The Secretary of State believes in the Mideast peace process but the participants themselves appear to have little faith
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Al Qaeda had a planâand it is working. Osama bin Ladenâs survival may be the Bush administrationâs biggest political failing.
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Analysis: Why Bush was lukewarm on the prime minister's plan to redraw Israel's borders
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Hamas seizes Gaza. What's to be done--and more importantly, who's going to do it? A lame duck president with the lowest approval ratings in two generations, and an Israeli prime minister whose government is on life supports?
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The flood of Palestinians out of Gaza is fraying relations between Israel and Egypt Â ostensible partners in peace but now bitterly at odds over the border chaos Â undercutting the chances that President Bush's Mideast initiative will succeed.