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Persevering against the odds As George W. Bush embarks on a round of Middle East talks, Peter Kammerer looks at the US president's chance of brokering a lasting peace where previous efforts have consistently failed.

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If circumstances determined whether the Middle East peace plan known as the "road map" succeeded, the process would be doomed. The most yet pro-Israeli American administration is attempting to bring together Israel's reluctant super-hawk prime minister and his politically-weakened Palestinian counterpart. Behind them lies a decade of ruined previous attempts littered with thousands of deaths, broken promises, lies and deceit.

Needless to say that scepticism among observers on all sides is high - yet they maintain a glimmer of hope that this time a lasting peace can be forged between Israelis and Palestinians. The ...

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