"In the waning days of office, engagement with radicals doesn’t look as bad..and if it works, Bush would have Israel to thank..."

Laura Rosen, in Foreign Policy, here

".....Although current Israeli political leaders appear to be in close step with the Bush administration, the country’s former security officials did not wait for Bush’s trip to make their case. The impasse over Gaza and the peace feelers regarding Syria have drawn a number of veteran Israeli officials to Washington to urge the Bush administration to reconsider its approach. Among those who have recently traveled to Washington are a former director of the Mossad and a parade of former senior members of the Israeli Foreign Ministry...."