Although George W. Bush memorably declared, "I'm the decider," as president he used to be remarkably indecisive whilst it got here to U.S. coverage towards the Israeli-Palestinian clash. His administration's policymaking featured an ongoing conflict among reasonable realists and conservative hard-liners encouraged through right-wing non secular principles and a imaginative and prescient of democracy as cure-all. Riven through those competing agendas, the Bush management vacillated among spotting the Palestinian correct to self-determination and embracing Israeli leaders who frequently selected warfare over negotiations. over the years, the management unevenly followed and discarded successive ways to the Israeli-Palestinian peace strategy. the result of this irresolution integrated the lovely triumph of Hamas within the 2006 Palestinian elections, Israel's 2006 invasion of Lebanon, the 2008--2009 conflict among Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and, finally, nearly no diplomatic development towards lasting peace. In Indecision Points, Daniel Zoughbie examines the most important assumptions underpinning U.S. overseas coverage within the center East throughout the Bush years. used to be there one coverage or ? was once the Bush management really fascinated with peace? In a compelling account, Zoughbie deals unique insights into those and different very important questions. Drawing at the auhtor's personal interviews with forty-five worldwide leaders, together with Condoleezza Rice, former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Kofi Annan, Colin Powell, Tom hold up, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle, Leon Panetta, Chuck Hagel, Shlomo Ben Ami, and Salam Fayyad, Indecision issues provides the 1st accomplished background of the Bush administration's try to reshape political order in a "New center East."