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Good luck with the Middle East mire, Mr. President

I wish any U.S. president, regardless of party affiliation and/or how I think they're doing as president, nothing but good luck regarding Israel and the Palestinians. I feel that way as I read that President Bush is in Israel right now, his first trip there as president, to try to nudge on the "peace process" he got Israel and the Palestinians to launch at Annapolis last year.

But I have no real confidence Bush or any other American president will do anything significant to bring a lasting peace to the area. Because I cannot believe, based on several millenia of evidence to the contrary, that there will be any lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

Some things simply never will happen. Lasting peace in that region of the world with legitimate, separate states for the Palestinians and the Israelis, is one of those things.

I found it interesting, watching part of a CNN report on the president's trip, that Bush commented to one of the Israeli leaders (I wasn't paying close attention and my have part of this wrong) how surprised he (Bush) was to see that a river on his ranch in Texas was bigger than the Jordan River. Refreshing to capture that native "Why golly, shucks" cultural naivety by our president, isn't it? No, really, I'm serious. I love it that the leader of the free world can still be an American tourist in Palestine. (Sounds soft of like the title of one of Mark Twain's works. Hmm...)
[tags]Bush in Israel, Bush and the Palestinians, Israel, Palestine, just a guy who reads the papers[/tags]