Source: The Jerusalem Post
Nov 12, 2006
When Ehud Olmert meets George W. Bush Monday the two men will have plenty to discuss.
From the "two state solution" to the Arab-Israeli conflict - which requires the removal of Hamas from the Palestinian Authority; to the Iranian race to acquire nukes; to how to squeeze Syria out of Tehran's orbit; to how to shore up the Lebanese leadership against Iran and Syria's efforts to undermine it; to how to please the "moderate Arab Quartet" - Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates by feeding pieces of Israel to the "Palestinians."
Bush, reeling from the drubbing of the mid-term elections, will be playing in a new reality - one relatively less favorable to Israel than his administration has hitherto tried to be.