Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, and Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, were quoted by McClatchy News Service, "Bush's Influence in Mideast Wanes."
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Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, and Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, were quoted by McClatchy News Service, "Bush's Influence in Mideast Wanes."
With a new scandal enveloping the Israeli prime minister and Hezbollah militants flexing their muscle in Lebanon, President Bush will confront even longer odds for success when he travels to the Middle East this week to work on two elusive objectives_peace and lower oil prices.
Bush, arriving in Israel on Wednesday to join in the nation's 60th anniversary celebrations, still hopes for an agreement by year's end between the Israelis and Palestinians over the contours of a new Palestinian state. But calls over the weekend for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign amid allegations of bribery have further undermined hopes for successful peace talks. [...]
"It's hard to remember a less auspicious time to pursue Arab-Israeli peacemaking than right now," said Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. [...]
Anthony Cordesman, an expert in energy and military strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said, "The fact is that, is this going to change the agreements being reached" by Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries? "It's very, very difficult to see how." Read the article
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