Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, was quoted by the Baltimore Sun, "Israeli Anniversary, Bush Spent 'Too Little.'"
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Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, was quoted by the Baltimore Sun, "Israeli Anniversary, Bush Spent 'Too Little.'"
Tonight, on the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel, Vice President Dick Cheney reiterated the long-standing premise of U.S. policy: Israel has no better friend than the United States.
Yet, as President Bush prepares to depart Tuesday for a five-day tour of Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the promise of peace in the region is no nearer than it was when Bush convened a summit of Israeli and Arab leaders in Annapolis in November and all agreed that they want to see an agreement on the contours of a new Palestinian state by the end of Bush's term. [...]
"I think the new president will feel that this president spent too little energy through his term,'' says Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, "and that there is a need for a higher level and more sustained U.S. engagement in bringing this conflict to some sort of resolution.''
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