Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, was quoted by Reuters, "Bush Heads Back to Mideast Amid Fading Peace Hopes."
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Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, was quoted by Reuters, "Bush Heads Back to Mideast Amid Fading Peace Hopes."
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush heads back to the Middle East on Tuesday facing broad skepticism over his chances of securing an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal before he leaves office in less than nine months.
"It's hard to remember a less auspicious time to pursue Arab-Israeli peacemaking than right now," said Jon Alterman, a Middle East expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "The politics on the ground are absolutely miserable."
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