Snags Bedevil Bush’s Mideast Plans

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"After meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, President Bush made a bold prediction Thursday about a solution to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict: "I believe it's possible – not only possible, I believe it's going to happen – that there be a signed peace treaty by the time I leave office. That's what I believe."

It is a goal that has been so elusive for so many of Bush's predecessors for so long, most recently when the President Clinton-hosted Camp David summit in 2000 collapsed without agreement."

Snags bedevil Bush’s Mideast plans - World Blog - msnbc.com