Iraq panel urges US push for Israel-Arab peace

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06483831.htm

Iraq panel urges US push for Israel-Arab peace
06 Dec 2006 23:40:32 GMT


By Matt Spetalnick

WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush must push for a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace as part of a U.S. effort to defuse broader regional tensions, an elite panel on the Iraq war urged on Wednesday.

Bush, who has mostly avoided a hands-on role in Middle East diplomacy, faced a call from the Iraq Study Group led by former Secretary of State James Baker for a "renewed and sustained commitment" to solving the festering Arab-Israeli conflict.

Washington and its ally Israel have long rejected even a tenuous linkage between that dispute and the Iraq war. Arab leaders insist the issues are intertwined and that Israeli-Palestinian fighting has been a key source of regional strife.

"The United States cannot achieve its goals in the Middle East unless it deals directly with the Arab-Israeli conflict and regional instability," the bipartisan commission said in its much-anticipated report to Bush..........

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1. the main problem is that the US does not belong in

the Mideast. There is zero understanding or respect for their ancient culture or tribal affinities.
It is only the United CORPORATIONS of America that NEED to be there. We need to get over it! It is their oil.