The front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination praised Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak for his peace policies. “You have a wonderful country, and it is the only democracy in the Middle East,” Gov. George W. Bush told the Israeli daily Ha’aretz. “I will work to maintain and strengthen our ties with Israel. That is a clear-cut American interest.”
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