re: #488 lawhawk

Obama could go to Israel 20 times, but it doesn’t change the fact that he’s hopelessly naive to think that Israel has a partner in peace with the Palestinians.

I think Bush understood that, at least on some level, deeper than Obama does now anyway. Maybe Obama will come to it. Bush championed the Hamas elections. That was weird, but I think the Israelis shrug that off as “politics as usual”. Bush pretty much stayed out of how Sharon ran things. Although he did admonish/warn Sharon for fighting back against the Infitada.