ABSTRACT
In 2001, George W. Bush inherited a stalled peace process in the Arab-Israeli dispute, as well as related renewed violence in the area. For several months, the new US President did not appear interested in getting involved in the perennial Middle East dispute. Events on September 11 changed everything in US foreign policy, including its approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The priority of addressing global terror threats on the US and its assets forced a renewed effort to win regional allies to aid in such a mission. Many of those allies in the Arab world sought movement on the peace process in order to give aid in the US agenda. Under such strategic circumstances, the US had put the cause of a Palestinian state at the brink of reality-a phenomenal event in regional and world affairs, if it actually comes about.
