May 12 - As President Bush returns to the Middle East the prospects for peace look dim with a scandal looming in Israel and Palestinians split.In November, President Bush set the goal of having a framework agreement in place between Israel and the Palestinians before he leaves office in January. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

Prophezine's This Week In Bible Prophecy, May 14th 2008

HEADLINES

Pres. Bush: Olmert is Honest and Abbas is a True Peace Partner

Ahmadinejad Israel is 'dying 'and the Mideast is going to destroy it when given
chance

Latest scandal could topple Olmert

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Pres. Bush: Olmert is Honest and Abbas is a True Peace Partner
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126154

Ahmadinejad says Israel is 'dying'and the Mideast is going to destroy it when given chance
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/983359.html

Latest scandal could topple Olmert
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-olme rt14-2008may14,0,5768503.story

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Hello! I'm Kristin Volk on this Wednesday, the 14 day of May 2008 with a today's news headline.

Senator Hillary Clinton is claiming victory in West Virginia after she crushed her opponent Senator Barack Obama there in yesterday's primary. The New York Senator scored well with blue-collar, working class, white voters -- a segment of the electorate that Obama has had trouble capturing. But Clinton's win may not be enough for her to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination. Obama has benefited from a steady stream of superdelegate endorsements since his win in North Carolina last week.

Authorities have arrested a suspect whom they believe is connected to those wildfires in Florida. Officials believe the fires were deliberately set because they say they started within hours of each other in separate locations. Many of the fires been contained, but they've consumed about 10 thousand acres and caused millions of dollars in damage.

President Bush received a warm welcome from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Bush arrived in Israel earlier today with the First Lady to celebrate the country's 60th anniversary and try to advance the Mideast peace process. It's the President's first stop on a five-day trip to the Middle East. He plans to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Egypt on Saturday.

It was a time of reflection and remembrance in the nation's capital last night as hundreds honored fallen law enforcement officers. Family, friends and colleagues gathered at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington to pay tribute to those killed in the line of duty last year. 358 officers from around the country were honored during a candlelight vigil.

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Hello on this Wednesday, the 23 day of April 2008. I'm Kristin Volk with a UPI Headline Update.

Senator Hillary Clinton won yesterday's Pennsylvania primary. The New York Senator beat her rival, Senator Barack Obama, by about 10 percentage points. She picked up a majority of the state's 158 delegates. Her victory follows wins in Ohio, New York, Texas and California. But despite yesterday's results, Obama is still ahead in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Israel has resumed pumping fuel to the Gaza Strip. That's to avoid a shutdown of the Palestinian territory's only power plant. Gaza energy officials had warned that the power plant would have stopped production today without a fuel delivery. Israel has cut fuel to Gaza twice this month in response to Palestinian militant attacks.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will call on President Bush to jump start the Middle East peace talks when the two meet tomorrow. Israel and the Palestinian Authority agreed last year to try to reach a peace deal in 2008. Abbas will reportedly ask Bush to pressure Israel to freeze Jewish settlement activity in the West Bank and ease checkpoints for Palestinians. Earlier this week, Bush met with Jordan's King Abdullah to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian process.

President Bush denies that the U.S. economy is in a recession. He instead called it an economic slowdown yesterday in New Orleans. The President pointed out that the economy grew in the last quarter of 2007 and that figures are not yet in for the first quarter of 2008. A recession usually means that two consecutive quarters of the gross domestic product has decreased. But in the U.S., a private organization makes an official declaration of a recession that takes into account the depth of the decline and is oftentimes announced after a recovery has already begun.

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