Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, was quoted by the Los Angeles Times, "Bush Wants a Deal on Palestinian State By End of Term."
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Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, was quoted by the Los Angeles Times, "Bush Wants a Deal on Palestinian State By End of Term."
WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Thursday that he wanted to lock in the outlines of a Palestinian state before he left office, even as Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, said the road was "paved with obstacles."
"Mahmoud Abbas has to not only convince the Palestinians he can get things from the Israelis and the Americans, but that he can get more than any other Palestinian leader. I don't think he has made that case," said Jon B. Alterman, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank. Alterman also is a former member of the State Department policy planning staff.
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