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Summit at Sharm: Bush, Arab leaders Talk Israeli-Palestinian Peace
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President George W. Bush met with Arab leaders today in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian road map to peace. The summit is part of the president’s first trip during his presidency to the Middle East and represents his biggest step yet to end the violence and put the two peoples back on the peace track.

A close look at the outcome of the talks, and a look ahead to tomorrow’s meeting between Bush, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas in Aqaba, Jordan.

Guests:

Dennis Ross, Director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, former special Middle East coordinator in the Clinton administration and former director of the Policy Planning staff during the first Bush administration

Shibley Telhami, Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland and non-resident scholar at the Brookings Institution

Maura Reynolds, White House correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, traveling with the President

 
 

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