JERUSALEM (AP) — The Bush administration has conceded that an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal is no longer possible by the end of its term and is preparing to hand the fragile, unfinished U.S.-backed peace effort to President-elect Obama. Obama may not want it, at least as designed by the Republican Bush administration, seen as slow to embrace the role of honest Mideast broker. Many of Obama’s foreign policy advisers were players in the Clinton administration’s extensive Mideast peace efforts and are unenthusiastic about President Bush’s hands-off approach.—-Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]
Bush punts unfinished Mideast peace deal to Obama
By The Associated Press
November 6, 2008