Decoding Bush: The President’s Version of the Balfour Declaration

Dr. Hassan Afif El-Hasan, Special to PalestineChronicle.com
President Bush should be credit for perfecting the art of selling his vision on solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to his Arab allies. He learnt from his campaigning that a good political salesman should have a slogan. He discovered the magic one to market his vision to the Palestinians, "two state solution living side by side!!". He repeated it so many times on several occasions without trying to do anything about it, then he bragged that he was the first to promise the Palestinians a state. This is not the first empty slogan the Palestinians have heard. Palestinian leaders who applaud President Bush vision today sold the Oslo agreements repeatedly as "the peace of the brave". What does Bush vision on Palestine entail?...
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