By Matt Spetalnick RIYADH (Reuters) - President George W. Bush flies to Egypt on Saturday for talks with Palestinian leaders who will be looking for signs they will not be neglected after he lavished praise on Israel during a visit to the Jewish state.
Heading for the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh for the final stop of his Middle East tour, Bush faces growing scepticism over his chances of securing an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal before he leaves office in January.
sh's trip to Egypt will follow a one-day visit to Riyadh, where he met King Abdullah and won an announcement of a modest Saudi increase in oil output in response to his repeated appeals for help in easing record world oil prices. Continued...

CAIRO (AFP) - US President George W. Bush flies on Saturday to Egypt where he will meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas after celebrating Israel's 60th anniversary and address the World Economic Forum on the Middle East.
Arriving in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh via oil powerhouse Saudi Arabia at the end of a regional tour, Bush will also meet Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah II at the capitalist networking jamboree.
ed at restarting the stalled Middle East peace process, but hopes of a deal by the end of Bush's term in January are dwindling.

By TERENCE HUNT AP JERUSALEM - President Bush gently urged Mideast leaders Thursday to "make the hard choices necessary for peace," leaving it to embattled Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to stand before a divided parliament and forcefully declare that this war-weary nation is ready for a historic agreement with Palestinians.
Bush is visiting Israel to mark its 60th anniversary as a nation -- a day mourned by Palestinians as the 60th anniversary of their uprooting. Bush mentioned the Palestinians only once in his 23-minute speech to the Knesset, and that came only in the context of what a Palestinian state would look like in six decades.
ffort seems to have run out

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Bush visit the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on Thursday, the second day of Bush's

JERUSALEM (AP) - President Bush gently urged Mideast leaders to "make the hard choices necessary for peace," leaving it to embattled Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to stand before a divided parliament Thursday and forcefully declare that this war-weary nation is ready for a historic agreement with Palestinians.
On a day mourned by Palestinians as the 60th anniversary of their uprooting by Israel's independence, Bush mentioned the Palestinians only once in a 23-minute speech to the Knesset — and then only in the context of what a Palestinian state would look like six decades from now.
argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along."

By Tabassum Zakaria JERUSALEM, May 15 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, in the Middle East to encourage struggling Israeli-Palestinian peace talks,

By Scott Stearns US President George Bush is in Israel at the start of a five-day trip to the Middle East. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns

Israeli police have stepped up a corruption investigation into Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, ahead of a visit to the region by George Bush as part of the state's 60th anniversary.
The US president arrived in Israel on Wednesday, a day after police raided government offices as part of their investigation into bribery allegations.
be held in Ramallah, the West Bank's political capital.

By Kim Ghattas President George W Bush is heading to a region that is sinking deeper into turmoil, and where the US influence is at a low ebb.

TEL AVIV, Israel (CNN) -- US President George W. Bush arrived in Israel on Wednesday for the first leg of his Middle East trip and hailed the close

He'll celebrate Israel's 60th anniversary, but meet with Israel's Olmert and Palestinian territories' Abbas separately.
By Peter Grier | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
elations. He'll meet with Saudi King Abdallah at the king's farm.