Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, was quoted by the Washington Times, "Bush Hopes for Mideast Peace in '08."
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Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, was quoted by the Washington Times, "Bush Hopes for Mideast Peace in '08."
President Bush arrived in Israel yesterday to an enthusiastic welcome and said he was optimistic that a peace agreement could be reached this year.
Rocket attacks by Palestinian terrorists, which Israel insists must stop before any agreement can be reached, continued.
"The underlying problem ... is that these sides are far apart and neither one has the standing in its own society to give the other side what they want," said Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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