President Bush gave another speech about the Middle East yesterday. Once again demonstrating why he has been singularly unsuccessful at motivating the country to support the war effort. In his speech he assured Israel that it would improve its security situation by re-deploying troops out of Judea. On the other hand he is telling the Demoncrats that the USA can not gain security by redeploying out of Iraq. If withdrawal from the West bank is such a great idea then withdrawal from Iraq will bring about world peace.

Bush seems to be stuck in the same quicksand that held Clinton during his last year in Office – Middle East peace making. Bush is now pushing the State Department’s view that Israel is not giving enough incentives to the “moderate” terrorists who want to destroy it. The President is a decent man, but he is a mediocre manager (remember Harriet Miers) and terrible leader (29% approval ratings).

Will Bush’s legacy be the break up of Biblical Israel? It would appear so. In his speech he called on Israel to make several immediate concessions. US Pres. Pushes for Another Arab State Alongside Israel.

IsraelNN.com) In a speech he delivered on Monday in Washington, DC, US President George W. Bush announced his intention to convene an international conference for “the establishment of a Palestinian state.” The proposed conference, Bush said, would include Israel, the Palestinian Authority and certain Arab states.

As part of his Middle East foreign policy strategy, President Bush called upon Israel to make several immediate concessions to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen). “Israel has a clear path,” he said, explaining that this included releasing frozen tax revenues Israel collected on behalf of the PA, ceasing what he called the “continuing occupation of the West Bank,” and finding “other practical ways [for Israelis] to reduce their footprint without reducing their security, so they can help President Abbas improve economic and humanitarian conditions.” Specifically, Bush said, “unauthorized outposts should be removed and settlement expansion ended,” adding that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is in agreement with the principles Bush expressed.

Israelis “should be confident that the United States will never abandon its commitment to the security of Israel as a Jewish state and homeland for the Jewish people,” President Bush added.