What role should the U.S. take in promoting peace in the Middle East? That question is on the agenda today as the new political leader of the Palestinian Authority meets with President Bush (Financial Times - Abbas to urge Bush to keep peace process on course). "Mahmoud Abbas arrives in Washington in an unenviable, if familiar predicament -- showered with rhetoric, neglected on policy. After only four months in office, his record is noteworthy by any standards, let alone those of the Middle East," reports The Boston Globe. In his article "Multilateral Peace in the Middle East," Cato Institute research fellow Leon T. Hadar states, "The election of Mahmoud Abbas to succeed the late Yasser Arafat as president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) coupled with the formation of a new centrist coalition in Israel has raised expectations about the revival of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The conventional wisdom in Washington is that the United States would have to play the dominant role in the process."
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